Video Premiere

January 12, 2010

 The Current was kind enough to post a video for one of my new Boy Soprano songs. You can check it out here.  For those of you who preordered, see you tonight. 

-Dess

(Pre) Sales Figures–Update

January 06, 2010

Moments ago, I received the updated sales figures for my new album, A Badly Broken Code.  The bean counters at Doomtree’s HQ just submitted their final tally via certified airmail. They’ve clicked off their desk-lamps, leaned back in their chairs, and are now smoking in the semi-darkness of another endless dusk on the island where the Doomtree Main Office is headquartered.

With no small

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Pre-order-ers

January 06, 2010

First and foremost, thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered my new album, A Badly Broken Code. I know that 2009 wasn’t flush for most folks, and there are a lot of other ways to spend $12.99.

Now, down to details. I’ve just sent off an email to Ander Other, our trusty intern, about the live broadcast that’s associated with the pre-order. Here’s the deal: on the evening of Tuesday, January 12th, Jeremy Messersmith, Aby Wolf, and I will …

Tuesdays With Lazerbeak

January 05, 2010

Hello and welcome to the first Tuesdays With Lazerbeak of 2010.  I hope you all had a great new years.  The end of 2009 was looking pretty good for me right up until the last day of the year, on which I somehow managed to inflict extreme bodily harm on myself while trying to enjoy a 3-D movie with my family.  Bear with me here, this is actually a somewhat funny story in hindsight.  Hit the jump for the rest….  

Tuesdays With Lazerbeak

December 29, 2009

I’m taking one week off from this Tuesdays With Lazerbeak blog dealy in order to finish up mixing tweaks on the solo record, as well as try to relearn all these TPC! songs for our big one off reunion show January 23rd (get advance tickets here).  I hope you all had an incredible holiday time with friends and loved ones.  I know that I personally have eaten about 135 of those chocolate turtle clusters in the last week (thanks Mom).  2009 was pretty sweet, although it does not even hold a flame to how insanely mammoth and legendary 2010 will be.  Can’t wait.  After the jump I’ve left a Bonus Video Jam of a kid losing his mind after his mother takes away his World of Warcraft game.  If you’re one of the 17 million people who have already seen it, I apologize.  This is just the closest physical impression that I know of that can accurately resemble what I did last night after the Vikings choked on national television (except for the part with the remote, I absolutely did not do that).  

Hope you have a wonderful and safe New Years.  See you next week.

Tuesdays With Lazerbeak

December 22, 2009

Hello and welcome to a special holiday version of Tuesdays With Lazerbeak.  A few years back I had an opportunity to take a shot at remixing some old standard Christmas songs to be played in the background of several different holiday themed Best Buy commercials.  It was one of the stranger musical scenarios I’ve ever been apart of, going back and forth over the phone with some executive about how the track still didn’t sound “hip hop” enough and whatnot.  Pretty funny stuff.  While three of my submissions made it to the final round, somebody else’s track ended up making the final cut.  Overall a very humbling/bizarre experience, and I still get a little salty whenever I have to walk into a Best Buy these days.  Oh well.  Since it tis the season and all, I figured I’d finally liberate these three Christmas beats and launch them out into the world.  You might not be ready for this.

Lazerbeak – “Sleigh Ride” (Best Buy Remix)

Lazerbeak – “The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” (Best Buy Remix)

Lazerbeak – “Random Christmas Song” (Best Buy Remix)

Ha!  You could almost say that I single handedly invented the (Best Buy) remix.  Now that that’s out of the way, it’s time to get into another list.  Last week I took a stab at my top 5 favorite albums of the decade, and man was that hard.  This week I’m just gonna go for the top 5 of 2009.  I realized that I didn’t really pay attention to as much stuff that came out this year compared to years in the past, so I may have missed out on some awesome records.  Either way though, here are the five albums I listened to and enjoyed the most this year.

Lazerbeak’s Top 5 Albums of 2009….

Video and the Radio Star: A Delicate Ceasefire

December 21, 2009

Last night, we finished filming for my second music video. We shot in the woods of Fort Snelling, flood lights trained on a bend of desolate road. 

Directed by Todd Cobery. Shot by Bo Hakala. Cameraphone image snapped by My Roommate (Thanks Jaclyn).

Ahem…

December 17, 2009

I think that Russel was right.