Archive for October, 2010

Josh Ritter’s “Making a Life in Music” – Good Stuff

My friend Jay just introduced me to Josh Ritter’s blog, Book of Jubilations.  In it, Josh just started a multi-post series he calls Making a Life in Music.  Every musician and band should at least read the first post, which looks at the reasons WHY we create music.  It’s deep (don’t read if you have [...]


Song Project Time & Calling Myself Out

For the first time in a very looong time, I have the house to myself.  Though I love and miss my family, I’d be lying if I were to say I’m not a little excited by the prospect of free time.  Here’s to getting a solid song draft finished this weekend. In fact, I’m calling [...]


WordPress Upgrade + 1and1 Hosting = Pain

WARNING:  Boring post alert.  Please ignore. I finally upgraded from WordPress 2.7 to 3.01 (thanks, Jesse!), and my site stopped working. Fortunately, the solution was pretty simple, and best explained over at Berkhamsted, which I found through a simple Google search.  And that’s great, because I was seriously considering moving my web hosting from 1and1 [...]


Nimbit’s Instant Band Site WordPress Plugin

Well, any band that still doesn’t have a website shouldn’t have too much more of an excuse to delay.  Nimbit (which apparently stands for “New Ideas for Music Business and Internet Technology”…phew, quite a mouthful)  just created a FREE WordPress plugin called Instant Band Site that offers pretty much all of the most important functionality [...]