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chrisrobley

  1. Check out the Moog synthesizer on Google's homepage today. You can fiddle with knobs and even record! google.com
  2. Hailey Niswanger's "The Keeper": great new jazz album from local Portland girl done good. Now on CD Baby-- and iTunes. itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-k…
  3. What do you get when you put me in a room w/ an analog tape machine, a charango, and a few ghosts? itunes.apple.com/us/album/ghost… twitter.com/chrisrobley/st…
  4. Not counting the first year and a half when I was still posting as "DIY Musician," I just wrote my 500th post for diymusician.cdbaby.com!!
  5. “You write a hit the same way you write a flop.” – Alan Jay Lerner
  6. Codfish races start at 8. Grown men running thru the streets with fish. They should have codfish codpiece races too!
  7. @DRDusai Hey Abbot, did you see this? diymusician.cdbaby.com/2012/04/top-3-… Might give you a few ideas if you're not playing live.
  8. @iamDanami Cool. Good to know. I'm trying to tweak my WordPress site, but my design skills are minimal. The overhaul is going sloooowly!
  9. Never seem to get sick of Bobby McFerrin leading the crowd in a pentatonic jam. youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2…
  10. @OutsideAnimals Ha. Timely! Glad to help (if it helped).
  11. @OutsideAnimals I wrote these: blog.bookbaby.com/2012/04/pinter… and diymusician.cdbaby.com/2012/04/a-musi…. But the DIY post links to a story written by @IndieAmbassador.
  12. @CraigofSuede Both if you can stand it. I haven't adopted it for my own music, honestly. I'm always late to the game! sproutsocial.com/insights/2012/…
  13. @iamDanami Thanks, D. Cool tunes. I like your website, too. Nice, clean design. Is that a theme or did you design it?
  14. @PTheWyse Thanks, PTheWyse. Thanks for reading. How's VA right now? I used to live in Richmond, and spring was the best.
  15. Looking forward to seeing Betsy Sholl (former poet laureate of Maine) read at Mayo Street Arts tonight: mayostreetarts.org/2012/04/17/wor…
  16. Sad news: Levon Helm, drummer for The Band, is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. rollingstone.com/music/news/lev…
  17. @nicogroove "Novice Land Kiteboarder" doesn't sound too shabby neither!
  18. @tedslowik @cdbaby Thanks, Ted. I'm a bit slow to take my own advice here on my personal Twitter account, but... soon!
  19. @lilionacoustic Thanks Lili. That article was actually written by my friend Rob Stroup (of 8ballstudio.com). Glad it helped, though!