So, pretty much exactly six months since my last post here. . . Since then, I've figured it out.

So, now it's in the works. Next couple months, you'll see:

The new "debut" Ear Reverends' album, Err or Man: featuring 20 new songs and, generally, more stuff that's like the proverbial bag o' surprises.

The new Ear Reverends website: for all of you Ear Reverends to call home (or, you know, whatever you would want to call it).

The new Wrong Notes: a totally new format, "the blog of ear reverence," for group text / audio / video / photo posting on music, art, culture and stuff of interest and delight to Ear Reverends across the cosmos.

Probably not many peeps until it's new. But, then, I'll be seeing y'all here!

As a kid, my cousin Dean Fienberg and I had a band called "The Light." We played together as a band for a couple years, had a bunch of songs, and even played a show at a good sized club in LA, called Hop Singhs.

But, most important in the history of things: in 1983, we created and recorded what we now realize to be The Worst Song Ever. In honor of this lowly achievement, I've compiled a podcast that includes this song, called "Dark Is the Night," as well as a funny conversation between Dean and me about why it's so bad.

I've also include two new Wrong Notes tracks—so check-out some new Ear Reverends' music too.

(So, the podcast is available in a so-called RSS Podcast feed, if you know what that is. But all of the contents are also available via these links and player below. Note that the individual tracks linked below are higher quality than the all-in-one podcast track.)

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Wrong Notes Podcast #02

1. Talking: Introduction [1:16]
2. Music: Spy? Music (new, for Wrong Notes) [1:45]
3. Talking: A Little History [0:46]
4. Music: New Dawn Coming, by The Light [3:32]
5. Talking: Segue into Dark Is The Night [0:48]
6. Music: Dark Is The Night, by The Light (The Worst Song Ever) [7:38]
7. Talking: Conversation with Dean Fienberg [7:42]
8. Music: Nostalogia (new, for Wrong Notes) [1:38]
9. Talking: Colophon [0:24]

Or, play it all now! Here!

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Whew! Done with that nostalgia trip. Now back to working on the Err or Man album.

It's a long story, everything I've done instead of blogging here for a while. The big things: the new Ear Reverends album "Err or Man" is in the works, the new HereJam studio is up and running, and the new HereJam record label is coming together.

I also finished the preliminary remix / remaster of the five tapes of jams of Slobot, a collaboration from 1986 of Bernard Bernard, Eduard Margidan and myself. I am looking to release a "best of" Slobot compilation this year (joint HereJam / Picayune release).

I have a new podcast coming very soon. But, for today's music, I'll include a link to the Slobot page on the Bernard Bernard site. Click through and play the Slobot tracks there.

more soon!

This is the first of the new Wrong Notes podcasts, now with both talking and music.

In this edition I play some new Wrong Notes music and talk with Bre Pettis, host of the MAKE Podcast, about our collaboration—the Ear Reverends created the theme music for MAKE Podcast's opening credits.

(We also briefly talk about and hear some sounds from the wonderful Casio VL-Tone synthesizer / calculator.)

Here's a link to the complete show in a single mp3 [14:22]. This is what you'll get if you subscribe to this blog's RSS feed and your feed reader is podcast enabled. (Also, it's available via iTunes.)

Now, I've always wanted this now-named podcast technology to support playlists, but it doesn't (yet, at least not consistently). So, I am also making available the podcast in playlist versions: here's the complete show as a XSPF playlist and the complete show as a m3u playlist. I am also including links to the individual files, below.

The individual mp3s in the playlist version (and below) are higher quality, and there's also an extra "bonus track" at the end of the playlist (more conversation with Bre about what he's up to next with the MAKE Podcast). So, if you are playlist enabled, definitely check out the playlist version!

1. Talking: Introduction [0:55]
2. Music: Oh Snap (new, for Wrong Notes) [0:58]
3. Talking: Conversation with Bre Pettis, part 1 [2:35]
4. Music: I Make Things (Ring) [0:48]
5. Music: MAKE Podcast Theme, first sketch [0:11]
6. Talking: Conversation with Bre Pettis, part 2 [1:02]
7. Music: MAKE Podcast Theme, second sketch [0:11]
8. Talking: Conversation with Bre Pettis, part 3 [0:54]
9. Music: MAKE Podcast Theme, final version [0:14]
10. Talking: Conversation with Bre Pettis, part 4, and Closing [1:49]
11. Music: Other Ducks (new, for Wrong Notes) [4:27]
12. Talking: Colophon [0:18]
13. Extra Bonus (playlist only) Talking: Bre on what he's up to next and robots [3:10]

Here's a XSPF player to play it, too:

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Attention! This podcast also comes with a one-time-only special feature: free high-pitched hardrive noise in the background during some of the talking segments. Absolutely Free! This incredible offer won't be repeated. The high-pitched hardrive noise will not appear in future podcasts. So, be sure not to miss it in this one—listen now before it's too late!