category archive: music

This is a guest post by Mr. Turtle. He loves music, and he does that thing people do where they’ll quote song lyrics. Some other people find this annoying, I realize. For myself, I may or may not enjoy seeing this kind of “thing,” depending on quality and quantity considerations.

Mr. Turtle has impeccable good taste and a keen sense for appropriately shareable snippets. I’ll turn it over now to him…

This is organic soul food, so much better for us than the star-making factory meat grinder. We have to stop wolfing down Cheez-Its.

Doesn’t matter

You fall

You don’t rise again

The End.

This post is tagged “Ryan Montbleau Band,” but the song is from a new solo album by Ryan coming out soon: For Higher.

“Heartbreak Road,” by Ryan Montbleau

So many songs get into our bloodstream from radio or other incidental sources. We hear a catchy tune and enjoy it, but maybe never learn the name of the song or who sings it. Maybe we decipher only some of the lyrics.

I feel like I’m in possession of a secret. A secret known by a lot of people, but still, RMB is a Big Secret. I want to tell the whole world about these guys, yet… I don’t want to have to share them with too many people at one time. I would love to always see them play at venues like The Dakota.

My memory of the evening is fuzzy after one year, so maybe the best I can say is, “It was great, man.” The Varsity Theater was a huge improvement over the 400 Bar on their previous headlining tour. I went with my wife and an old friend on a seasonably warm autumn evening, enjoying streets blessedly empty of zombies.

“Are you livin the life that you always dreamed of?”

Welcome to Brother Martin’s traveling salvation show.

Worship services are commonly held in a theater. Last weekend I was blessed to have attended twice: at the Majestic in Madison, Wisconsin, and the Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota.

We rocked and rolled and filled our souls.

As far as I can tell, the main tenets of the Church of Martin are Peace and Love, Unity, Freedom, and Dreams.

Chasing your dreams.

Dreams of freedom?

We give thanks to failure in the Church of Martin, for it can make dreams come true. The dreams that choose me and you.

Brother Martin calls out to Jesus, Allah, the Higher Power, and the Universe to help us in our journey.

He gives us this meditation: Hop the dog!

Boom Sh-Boom

I’m very excited about a new Martin Sexton album (Sugarcoating) and a new tour. And as an added bonus, the Ryan Montbleau Band will be opening for Martin and performing as his backing band. Congratulations, RMB, you guys deserve this.

I have tickets for a Saturday night show in Madison, Wisconsin, and the next night in St. Paul, Minnesota. It’s going to be so freaking awesome. Maybe after that I’ll follow them down to New Orleans. We’ll just see how it goes…

Christmas music to bring cheer to the CPUs of Robot Revolutionaries:

Jonathan Coulton, Chiron Beta Prime

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