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- Members:
- Joel Abbott
- Genre:
- Pop, Electronica, Showtunes
- Hometown:
- Burlington, VT
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Making a bossa nova album presents some unique problems. First, bossa nova is seen as an “easy listening” genre. I don’t want to make an easy listening album, and I don’t think I have. The problem is that any bossa nova album is going to be classified as easy listening, so I’ve had to f
It’s the day after Christmas and that means that my latest CD “Christmas and Glowsticks” becomes dormant for around eleven months–and then will rise once more as the Yule Season returns in 2009. I have been hard at work on my next album, which will be a bossa nova collection...
All of my energy lately has been for my new Christmas album, “Christmas and Glowsticks“. I’ve been trying a lot of different things to get it in people’s hands, and, well, ears...
We have CD’s that can be bought here We have downloads We have a cov
For one week (November 28 - December 5) My new holiday CD “Christmas and Glowsticks” is available as a pay-what-you-want digital download. Merry Christmas,
I figured out something really exciting–how to get my music to you, without having to give 30% to iTunes. That way I can charge less and make more, and evil corporations won’t get a cut. I’m being like Tom Shane and cutting out the middle man…and passing the savings on to you! So, just
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Hi everybody, my new Christmas album is now available. It's just in time for Christmas, so go check it out over at www.christmasandglowsticks.com
It's a great album, bordering on a classic Christmas album. Get it now, so someday you can say, "I knew him back when he only had 41 facebook fans!"
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Every night, after work I spend a couple of hours tweaking all my songs, and then I burn a new(!) CD to play in the car the next morning on the way to work. I get the songs as solid as I can in the studio, and then take them for a test drive on my [...]
The beta website for my next album “Christmas and Glowsticks” is posted at www.christmasandglowsticks
Is xmas capitalized? Anyway, I’m inches away from finishing my big Christmas album. I keep editing, and I keep making it a little bit better. I know I’m gilding the lilly, but I’m also learning a lot with every song, and then I have to go back and use what I learned on songs
I remember a month in the 1990s when Smashing Pumpkin released sixteen or seventeen albums. It was a joke then, because it seemed so ridiculous how many new albums they put out all at once. On the other hand, Paul Simon puts out an album every six or seven years. Steely Dan puts out an album [...]
So, I don’t know if this is supposed to be a place for political stuff, but that last Palin thing was something I felt like writing. She’s just so ridiculous. I’ve been working on a couple of projects. I’m still finishing up my Xmas album. I have ten solid songs, and want two more that aren
I’ll admit that I’ve become a Palin-News-Junkie these last two weeks. I’ve been reading all the Palin news articles and op-ed pieces and watching all the Palin videos online with the same fervor that I usually reserve for “The Girls Next Door” and “TMZ”...
My friend Mike and I have an old sort-of-joke, it goes like this: “Hey have you heard about the new [blockbuster movie] coming out this weekend? I bet it will make at least a hundred dollars.” So it’s been six months since “Babies Don’t Have Hands” was released...
I like to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows pretty frequently, like two or three times a year...
The “Working Hard To Be A Hipster” video is at 999 views on YouT
“Working Hard To Be A Hipster” is at 999 views on YouT
I have eight songs for the Christmas CD finished. I’ve been working steadily for weeks on this project, but after the eighth song, I’ve had days and days of false starts. I have many minutes of music that just isn’t usable for a number of reasons. Most often, it just isn’t working. ...
I moved from Atlanta to Vermont about seven months ago, and packed up all of my beautiful synthesizers, effect boxes, samplers, microphones, and cables. All of my precious and hard-to-find music making apparatus has been packed up in boxes. I’ve been making all of my music using software...
So, I’m making a Christmas album, and using this project as a platform for learning lots of new ways of arranging and composing electronic music...
The Go Ahead And is really taking off. We got played on seven podcasts so far, and I’ve been sending CDs to college radio stations (school doesn’t start for a couple of weeks, so lets hope the CDs don’t get ‘misplaced’ between now and then), my first video has 691 plays, and I’m...
I’m three songs in on my Christmas album. It’s going pretty well. It’s amazing how much easier it is to make songs when there aren’t any lyrics or singing involved...
My deactivating all of my Wordpress plugins, the speed has improved. It’s weird how things that are supposed to integrate seamlessly with the software just slow it down. But it’s a s
My website is suddenly very very slow, and I worked all day yesterday, and today to speed it up...
I went in and deleted lots of scary files, and finally was able to speed up my site’s load time from 84 seconds to 1.17 second. What I think happened is that as I was wrapping my head around the Wordpress software, I tried out lots of things, used a ton of themes, and tried out [..
I wrote and sent out a press release last week. I did a ton of research on how to write press releases and read hundreds of them, in preparation for writing my own. What I noticed is that press releases specifically for hip hop artists almost always talk about how successful they are...
I have it on good authority that the new video for “TK-421, Why Aren’t You At Your Post” is going to be available this week. Start holding your breath, Now! So, I’ve been cocooning lately...
I made a new pseudo-video…well, it’s an actual video, but it’s not a music video. Well, I guess it is. There’s something soooo mesmerizing about watching this dog chewing on a tree branch...
We went to the shore of Lake Champlain last night to watch the fireworks. I was blown away by the size of the fireworks show. I guess I wasn’t expecting much, but little Burlington Vermont pulled out the bigget, most (dare I say) dramatic fireworks display I’ve ever seen...
We now have buttons! Send me your address, and I’ll send you a butto
I wrote up some liner notes for “Babies Don’t Have Hands.” You can find them at http://thegoaheadand.com/?page
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