Danger Mouse is on fire lately, and I couldn’t be happier that he produced the new Beck album. I go back and forth on Beck - he’s one of those bands/artists that make consistently good records when they could be making great records. Kind of like Coldplay, but they’re more on the crap-when-they-could-be-great side of […]

I made a donation to a political campaign today. They’re doing some sort of donation matching, where I give $25 and supposedly it inspires someone else to give $25, and then they write you an email so you can pat each other on the back. I got this in my Plastic Explosives inbox:

Like… really? This […]

My portfolio for commercial sound design is now up and running at JonathanGraves.net.
Why don’t you have a look?

This is a wonderful video for Ensemble’s collaboration with Cat Power (Chan Marshall) - it appears to be made entirely of home movie disaster footage, and the song comes off sounding like peak-form Fiona Apple.
Courtesy of Pitchfork TV.

MacProVideo.com has the best tutorials I’ve ever used for stuff like Logic and Final Cut Pro, and they’re running a contest right now based on a recent release, Logic 404: Mixing Electronica.
You can remix a really generic dance track by Olav Basoski (sorry Olav), and if your remix is chosen as the best of the […]

Everyone knows that we’re supposed to learn from our mistakes, but it’s tough to remember to look back at your day/week/month and figure out what those mistakes actually were. I’ve been trying to keep track of things in iCal (with limited success) so I can see where my week went drastically off-course.
Productivity blogger Andre Kibbe […]

Lost at E-minor is constantly putting good stuff in my inbox when most of it is crap. And the guy from Liars has started writing for them lately, making them that much more awesome.
One of their newest featured artists is Brittanie Pendleton, a 20 year-old photographer from California whose subjects crackle with emotion […]