Today, I’m really speechless and pleased to have been included in the inaugural compilation of Up Your Legs Forever, a new Netlabel run by mad Canadian genius, Isaac Quatorze. The compilation is beyond amazing, includes a number of FAWM.org artists that I admire greatly, and it’s utterly free. Go get it, quickly!
In the spirit of UYLF, I also decided to make an Autoclamp compilation of sorts. With over 150 songs on this site, it’s become a challenge to sort through the growing Autoclamp song collection. I picked my sentimental favorites, and you can check it out here: Five Years of Confirmed Fears: Selected Songs 2004-2009.
February Album Writing Month commences in a few short days. If you’re a musician, lyricist, kazoo player, whatever, you need to look into this. A collection of like-minded maniacs get together online and each try to write 14 songs in 28 days. Some merely post the title. Some post an elaborately produced MP3.
Whatever your ability, you owe it to yourself to check out www.fawm.org. Drop in and say hi to Scott O. Clamp and Bri N. Clamp!
A simultaneous ode to loneliness and to two great movie studios on different continents, October’s belated song-of-the-month is called Toho and Ealing. Continue Reading…
EDIT – Saturday, September 6, not Friday as written before. Sorry!
There will be a fall FAWM Midwest Songwriters Showcase on Saturday, September 6th from 7 to 11 p.m at Ginko Coffeehouse in St. Paul. This great show will feature Traitor Mouse, Missile Wings, Static Captain, Dapple Throat, Todd Norem, T-Spoon, as well as your good friends in Autoclamp. The show is free to the public! Thanks to Eric Distad of Traitor Mouse for putting this together.
If Basia Bulat came to guide us into spring, and these kooks were here to take care of our summer needs, then the Walkmen have arrived to usher in autumn with a powerful new album. I could listen to this song over and over. In fact, I just did. Continue Reading…
