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Over the last few days, I’ve been making a series of little videos in which I discuss my new album “Christmas and Glowsticks”. Here ...

First, I must say that the discussion about digital distribution in the previous post is worth a look. There’s really interesting information that I haven’t seen anywhere else. But I want to talk about playing music for live theater. Th ...

I finished “Christmas and Glowsticks” yesterday and uploaded it to www.catapultdistribution.com, who is my “middle-man” to iTunes, Amazon.mp3, Rhapsody, eMusic, Napster, and many other online music distributors. I also ...

Last year, I finished my Christmas album “Christmas and Glowsticks” a bit too late to get it on iTunes and other internet distributors before the Christmas season. This year, I’m not making the same mistake. But I’m not just putting the original album on iTunes. I’m re ...

I’ve been doing a ton of theater since moving to Vermont. Well, it’s a fraction of the amount of shows I used to do in Atlanta, at Dad’s Garage and with Laughing Matters. I used to do between 10-18 shows a month. I’ve become the resident sound designer for the Vermont Stage Company. This i ...

So, let’s catch up. Almost exactly two years ago, Mary and I moved from Atlanta to Burlington, Vermont. After moving to Vermont, there was this global economic meltdown and the job market dried up. ...

The old The Go Ahead And website is gone. I changed the site to this format so that I, Joel, could occasionally write things besides The Go Ahead And news. This is mostly because there hasn’t been much The Go Ahead And news lately, and I still feel like talking about things. ...

Man, all I’ve been doing lately has been traveling. I took a trip to Atlanta a few weeks ago, and played some shows at the home theatre, which was all fun. But then we had to take an unexpected trip to Virginia this weekend to attend a funeral. No one talks about “car lag” the [...]

Man, there’s a lot of news in The Go Ahead And world. First off, I’ve decided that The Go Ahead And is a septet. I know of a few comedy duos, one or two comedy trios, but no septets, so I think I’m breaking new ground here. It’s been almost exactly a year since the first album [...]

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 fight [...]

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. I curr ...

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. To fac ...