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In the studio…
Sunday, February 28th, 2010Keep the car running…
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010A few weeks away from mixing the album! Just a few more vocal sessions to go.
In the meantime we have several shows booked for the coming months. You can check them out on the Clean Equations myspace page… Clean Equations Myspace
Thanks for your patience!
Ready?
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Song 21 Demo / New show added…
Saturday, January 9th, 2010Hey everyone,
Posted a new demo on the myspace page for you guys to check out. Not sure if this will really fit on the new album, but I had fun making it anyway.
http://www.myspace.com/cleanequations
In addition, Mike from Clean Equations will be playing a solo set of new material and old favorites with our good friend Dani Mari at Murph’s Bar in Fishtown on February 6th. Even better, it’s free!
Mike from Clean Equations Top 25 Albums/Songs of the Decade
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010After much deliberation…
Top 25 Albums of the Decade:
1~Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
2~Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3~White Stripes- White Blood Cells
4~Radiohead- Kid A
5~Arcade Fire- Funeral
6~Sufjan Stevens- Michigan
7~Wrens- Meadowlands
8~Fleet Foxes- S/T
9~Broken Social Scene- You Forgot it In People
10~Dismemberment Plan- Change
11~Grandaddy- Sumday
12~Postal Service- Give Up
13~Trail of Dead- Source Tags and Codes
14~Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin- Broom
15~The Strokes- Is This It
16~The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow
17~Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah- S/T
18~Pedro the Lion- Control
19~Sun Kil Moon- Ghosts of the Great Highway
20~Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
21~Death Cab for Cutie- We Have the Facts
22~Destroyer- Rubies
23~Rilo Kiley- Take Offs and Landings
24~Emily Haines- Knives Don’t Have Your Back
25~Nada Surf- Let Go
Honorable Mentions:
~Ted Leo- Tyranny of Distance
~Cub Country- High Unita High
~Ariel Pink- Worn Copy
~Walkmen- Bows and Arrows / You and Me
~Desaparecidos- Read Music/Speak Spanish
~New Pornographers- Electric Version
~Am An Set- Know By Heart
~Les Savy Fav- Rome EP
~The xx – xx
~Long Winters- When I Pretend to Fall
Top 25 Songs of the Decade:
1~ Walkmen- The Rat
2~ Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah- In This Home on Ice
3~ Broken Social Scene- Lovers Spit
4~ Animal Collective- My Girls
5~ Radiohead- Optimistic
6~ Arcade Fire- Rebellion (Lies)
7~ Dr. Dog- My Old Ways
8~ American Analog Set- Always Wins
9~ Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin- I Am Warm and Powerful
10~ Guided By Voices- Chasing Heather Crazy
11~ M83- Graveyard Girl
12~ Rilo Kiley- Pictures of Success
13~ Grandaddy- Crystal Lake
14~ Wilco- Poor Places
15~ Pedro the Lion- Never Leave a Job Half Done
16~ Fleet Foxes- Blue Ridge Mountain
17~ The Shins- The Past and the Pending
18~ The Wrens- Happy
19~ Ariel Pink- Can’t Hear My Eyes
20~ Postal Service- We Will Become Silhouettes
21~ Superchunk- Late Century Dream
22~ Her Space Holiday- Japanese Gum
23~ Dismemberment Plan- Following Through
24~ Death Cab for Cutie- Scientist Studies
25~ Trail of Dead- Relative Ways
Top 9 of 2009
Friday, December 25th, 2009Here are Mike’s Top 9 favorite things of 2009…
1. Stacy’s Naked Pita Chips (I’d live on these things… if I could afford it…)
2. Eastbound and Down (Danny McBride + baseball = the John Rocker reality show we were all hoping for)
3. Johnny Brenda’s Tavern (hands down the best venue in Philly… and possibly the greater world)
4. Early-1980s Casio Keyboards (these guys at the Berlin flea market have no idea what kind of gold mind they are sitting on…)
5. The xx (one of the few newer bands this year worth the hype…)
6. Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job! (enough said…)
7. Miller High Life (single-handedly carried us through the 2009 MLB Playoffs… when Cole Hamels couldn’t…)
8. Universal Audio UA-2-610 Tube Preamp (a classic… and my favorite piece of recording gear)
9. The Copperphone (a lovely microphone… even if it looks like a pipe bomb)
Album Updates… 12/25/09
Friday, December 25th, 2009First off Happy Holidays to everyone! Thanks for all the support you’ve given to the EP over the last few months.
Over the past few days we recorded most of the guitars (first pass at least) for the full length. Right now we are working on the preliminary mixes and figuring out where the additional elements will fit in (organ, piano, strings, weirdness, loops, field recordings, et al). We hope to hit the studios for full on mixing in late February. Maybe we’ll post a preliminary mix or two in the coming days.
Stay warm!
Mike
Recording update… 12/22/09
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Hey everyone,
Sorry for the lack of updates. We are currently hiding out in the Derivative Room working on the full length album. All of the drums and most of the bass are done. Most of the guitars are done as well. Hopefully working on all the EP/synth/Rhodes/other random Jim Thomas noises this week before the holidays. Keep checking back!
New photos…
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009Just threw a few photos up from the Clean Equations show at Kung Fu Necktie last month. Better late then never! It was also good Photoshop practice.
You can check them out at our facebook page… http://www.facebook.com/cleanequations
Flashy Pythons / Scott from Dr. Dog
Friday, December 11th, 2009Working hard on the album. Recording same bass later today. In the meantime here are some pics from the Flashy Pythons/ Scott from Dr. Dog show at Johnny Brenda’s I went to earlier in the week. I also captured some audio from the show if anyone is interested.
Mike
