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Category Archives: Check Out This Song
Ball of Wax 31 Originals: Alicia Amiri – Darkness in Me
[Ball of Wax 31, as previously announced, will feature 15 local songwriters and bands all covering each other’s songs. Between now and the release show on March 9th, I will share the originals with you to provide a little background, … Continue reading
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Tagged alicia amiri, colin j nelson
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Ball of Wax 31 Originals: Bret Alain Phillips – Winder Downs
[Ball of Wax 31, as previously announced, will feature 15 local songwriters and bands all covering each other’s songs. Between now and the release show on March 9th, I will share the originals with you to provide a little background, … Continue reading
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Tagged alicia amiri, bret alain phillips, oldman winter
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Ball of Wax 31 Originals: Jeremy Burk – City Jobs
[Ball of Wax 31, as previously announced, will feature 15 local songwriters and bands all covering each other’s songs. Between now and the release show on March 9th, I will share the originals with you to provide a little background, … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 31 Originals: The Glass Notes – Don’t Write This Song
[Ball of Wax 31, as previously announced, will feature 15 local songwriters and bands all covering each other’s songs. Between now and the release show on March 9th, I will share the originals with you to provide a little background, … Continue reading
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Tagged ball of wax, jeremy burk, robb benson, the glass notes
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Check Out This Song: Landlady – “Above My Ground”
I get emails! If you ever want a bunch of new friends to start emailing you constantly, just start a music blog. Within weeks you will have musicians and their publicists sending you very friendly messages, calling you by your … Continue reading
Singin’ Freebird with Christian Bookshop
Longtime Ball of Wax listeners might remember the Irish band Music for Dead Birds from Volume 12. I’ve wondered over the past few years what they might be up to, and I was quite pleased to receive an email yesterday … Continue reading
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New Music from Sun Tunnels
Although he’s been slacking something terrible on the blog front, my friend Louis has been getting back to rediscovering the fun of writing and recording music under his newish moniker Sun Tunnels, and sharing it via his fancy new Soundcloud … Continue reading
Everything Points Up!
One of the wonderful new surprises I got in the submission pile for the new Ball of Wax Dance Party CD (which you will be able to hear very, very soon, I promise) was a new project from the impossibly … Continue reading
Andy Says So: Grave Babies
Continuing the string of recommendations from Andy of Fensepost, let’s check out Grave Babies. Seattle’s Grave Babies put out a 7″ on Hardly Art and have an EP called Gothdammit coming out on April 17th. Like Orcas, Grave Babies have … Continue reading