You heard it first, folks. We’ve announced The Melanaster Band’s next show : Friday, December 11 at the Hookah Bar in Asheville, accompanied by Paper Tiger. More details on the way! Below you can stream Friday’s WPVM interview. Marley joins host KP Whaley and Mike Sule of Asheville on Bikes to discuss The Melanaster Band, […]
read moreMicachu and the Shapes is an experimental pop trio from London fronted by composer Mica Levi. Levi made her mark as a UK garage DJ before starting the band, but she’s also classically-trained and was commissioned to write a piece for the London Philharmonic while attending school. It’s hard to imagine what kind of band […]
read moreThe official Mr. Invisible website is online. Photos, videos, music, and all the social-networky trimmings.
read moreNext Friday, October 30th, I’ll be joining Mike Sule of Asheville on Bikes and KP Whaley of WPVM on-air to talk about Melanaster and AOB’s upcoming Halloween event, The Pumpkin Pedaler. The interview begins at 2:30PM, during which you’ll hear excerpts from a soon-to-be-released DJ mix. On Halloween night, I’ll be DJing outside of Clingman […]
read moreThe New York Times just posted a really insightful article exploring the algorithms employed by Pandora to customize listeners’ playlists. It also delves into the discussion of music taste based on social and cultural context rather than the music itself, which is one of my favorite thinking points (see: this post from about a month […]
read moreBeach House is a Baltimore duo that makes beautiful, dreamy indie pop. That descriptor “dreamy indie pop” usually conjures Nineties groups like My Bloody Valentine and Ride, but unlike the wall-of-guitars approach favored by those bands, Beach House does it with spare, deliberate arrangements – usually no more than guitar, keyboard, voice, and gently-pulsing electronic […]
read moreSolo DJ set this Thursday, October 15 at The Hookah Bar in Asheville. $3, 10PM. Advanced DJ techniques, challenging music and and an inviting atmosphere!
read moreThe final track listing has been released for this year’s What.CD artist compilation. Among the 100 artists that submitted tracks for consideration, Marley Carroll, Mr. Invisible, and The Good Earth Project (a collaborative NC hip-hop effort featuring members of Mr. I, Ike Turnah, Mr. Mattic and others) were selected for inclusion in the twenty-one track […]
read moreThe Prefuse 73 show and the Melanaster Band’s debut were rolling successes, thanks to gracious fans, great musicians, and the Asheville music scene. As the dust settles, there will be recordings, photos, and video from both shows posted to the blog. See you soon!
read moreAs part of the transition into the new phase of the Melanaster project, I am retracting the free download of the album more than year after it was made available online. Here’s your last chance to download the album for free (well, at least officially):
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