Obama "Yes We Can" Video

Kudos to will.i.am for gathering such an amazing group of people to express the message of hope from our next president.









Missed an article? Try looking on the Archive page!

Jaye Drew and a Moving Train

One of my music teachers from my high school has been in numerous funk/jazz bands over the years that have all been quite good, but I recently checked out a show with his newest band Jaye Drew and a Moving Train and they were excellent! They had the perfect mix between jazz, funk, soul, hip hop, and rock to be a great crowd pleaser.

Jay Drew and a Moving Train

This group of young musicians are currently working on their debut album as Jaye Drew and a Moving Train.

The Fibonacci Sequence In Lateralus

This is an awesome video that shows some amazing imagery from the Hubble telescope while showing the Fibonacci Sequence in modern music...



Further more, check this out... (It's crazy to see how genius some people are.)

"I had doodled a few spirals in the corners of my graph paper, and in doing so made the first important connection to Lateralus. I knew that if the tracks were in fact intended to be heard in a different order, "Parabol" and "Parabola" would have to go together. In drawing my spirals, I had begun with a vertex and 'spiraled' outwards. After writing the numbers 1 through 13 linearly, I could immediately see that Parabol and Parabola would have to be the middle of my spiral (in that 13 / 2 = 6.5). I drew a simple arrow between 6 and 7 and then pondered the next pair. At first, I actually drew a spiral connecting pairs of numbers whose sum equaled 13 (the number of songs on the album). This, however, left the last track in the same position and without anything to connect to. At this time, I had used my copy of Lateralus and Cool Edit Pro to take out the silences between tracks and put the songs in the following order: 6,7,5,8,4,9,3,10,2,11,1,12,13. The transition from Parabola into Schism blew my mind, as the plucks, probably dismissed by listeners as a drawn out rant of an ending, perfectly transition into the beginning of Schism. When you count out beats as the strings are plucked, Schism resumes with the same time signature and tempo - mirroring the progression of notes. The transition from Schism into Ticks & Leeches is equally intriguing. Schism ends with strong double-kick bass and tom smacks, and Ticks & Leeches begins with what many would call a 'tribal' drum beat. The beat at the very start of Ticks & Leeches is slightly different every subsequent time it is repeated - the measures are two beats longer. Yup - you guessed it - those two beats are ACTUALLY the last two beats of Schism."




Missed an article? Try looking on the Archive page!

Rustic Overtones Reunite!

Tonight the Rustic Overtones ROCKED the WCYY patio at One City Center in Portland, ME. They played an hour show and boy did they an awesome show! This show was their first in 6 years, but they seem like they might be back for good even though they originally said it was only for the summer, we'll see!

Rustic Overtones Patio Show

Rustic Overtones Are Back!!!

Yes indeed, the Maine based band Rustic Overtones are back. They announced that they are getting back together! Never heard of them? Here's their myspace page, enjoy.
l_ef87d0a69b25809e4f5a4232f7f2f634 l_dcfb72e97f3d31f99df969392330cdc6 m_992ed1f05815ecbb9b1e65bcedcdbff7 m_64179e2dcdff909fd3d46aac795db18c
If you want to learn a little history you can check out the short, but yet still informative Wikipedia article.