Is This Jim Beam Up For Grabs?

K.B. — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:59:30 +0000

Most of the guitar tracks for the next album have been finished. We’ll be recording drums for it next. I spent most of the day in Mobtown Studios, today, working on recording drums, bass, vocals, and stomping and handclaps for A Cat Called Cricket. It was fun. We’ve been planning to make a 7″ single, but the songs may be a bit too long, so it might just become a short EP.

Speaking of Mobtown, last thursday, my pals Tiger Hill played a micro-show there and they played a cover of my song A Melody For Melanie. You can hear it along with the rest of the performance here. It’s interesting to hear Ganesh from Tiger Hill sing that song because I started writing it while the two of us were in a band called The Soft Pyramids, but the band broke up before I finished writing the song, so it became a song for The Up Set and found its way onto the EP.

-K.B.

Closer and closer…

K.B. — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:16:02 +0000

I’ve been trying to schedule some time to start recording this album. At this point, it looks like we’ll start the second week of May and then try to end as soon as we can before the end of May. We’ll be recording with my buddy Alex, who is in my other band A Cat Called Cricket. I’ve narrowed it down to 9 songs that I want to record, which means that there will be at least 8 songs on this album depending on how I feel about one particular instrumental after we give it a shot. This also means that I need to pick some actual titles for a few of these songs. That’s the hard part for me, haha. I think I over think my song titles a little bit. I’ve also started a list of possible album titles that I’ll pick from when the time gets closer, but there’s one title that I think I like a bit more than the others.

-K.B.

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Is This Jim Beam Up For Grabs?

Closer and closer…