We've already gotten some gracious responses to our recent equipment plight. There's a link at myspace.com/winstonaudio that allows people to donate through paypal, and we've already had some donations, and bands offering to have benefit shows in their areas to raise money for us. Very cool. After a group of people do something like this, it's very ( Read more... )

I got a call this morning at 7:45 from Dan informing me that our van was broken into and almost all of our gear was stolen. Awesome. I'm actually feeling pretty calm about the whole thing (although I imagine if I had had to talk with the police I probably would be fuming a lot more. Don't worry, Mackenzie's fuming enough for the both of us). What ( Read more... )

I must be more out of blogging practice than I thought. ZERO comments on my last post? Wow. And I thought it was a relatively juicy one. Ah well. Life marches on, and I write another blog, hoping to make a connection with lost friends who's screen icons I recognize more than their faces. That is a depressing thought, no? Well, enough of that ( Read more... )

I am excited about today, no matter what the outcome of it is. I'm not sure my candidate will win the nomination, or even my state, but I still have hope. And I like that feeling. There isn't enough of it ( Read more... )

Winston Audio is playing with a very good band called Colour Revolt tonight at the 40 Watt. We have new t-shirts and are nearing completion of our debut full-length album, so we're pretty primed for world domination. You can go tonight and later say "I saw them when...". You know you want to.

I am shameless.

The record's starting to come together very nicely, but it looks like it won't be finished before Christmas. Fortunately we have already discussed a general timeline for completing it before January gives way to February. We should have most of the tracking done by the end of the week (minus a few background vocals) then it's just a hop, skip, and ( Read more... )

I spent all this week working on the album. It's coming along pretty nicely for sure, but I think we were all kind of hoping we'd be further along by this point. Oh well. We'll get it done eventually. We have nearly all the bass, drums, and guitars done, maybe almost half the lead vocals, and none of the keyboards and harmonies. So there's much ( Read more... )

There are more than a few things that I don't like about being a grown-up (although I think if you were to ask Mackenzie she would say we aren't grown-ups until we buy a house, but whatever): the number 1 culprit on the list today is having to pay taxes. My dad told me the other day that one of the highest positive reaction spikes in the youtube ( Read more... )

I know a lot of you guys are just graduated from college, or will be soon, so I thought I'd put in a little plug for a website my friend runs. It's at www.ihateyourjob.com. The website gives advice on how to avoid getting into a job that isn't a good fit for you, some ideas on how to make your job situation better, and some entertaining little ( Read more... )

What an interesting month I have had. Not that it would translate interestingly to the blogosphere, but interesting nonetheless. We recorded drums and bass for our album (did I already talk about that?) about a month ago, and just confirmed dates next month to finish it up. Between then and yesterday, not knowing when exactly we'd get to record, ( Read more... )