I’ve been meaning to let you in on one of the projects I’ve been working on for the past year, involving field recordings. In the spirit of immediacy (since I should have done this sooner) I’ve uploaded one of my most recent recordings of rain (and frog!). Just under 3 1/2 minutes, it’ll be a [...]

As a Tunecore artist my music is available from the new Tunecore app for iPhone, TuneCore: Discover Music which is available from the iPhone store. Unfortunately, the app features the top 25 Tunecore artists, overall, by category, or by location which means that you’re more likely to see a big artist (or at least one [...]

Gymshoes is now on Twitter. You can follow me at: http://twitter.com/Gymshoes_ (Don’t forget to put the _ at the end!)  I’ve got a Twitter widget in the sidebar and assuming it loads (which it doesn’t if  Twitter is overwhelmed) you can read my latest tweet and use the arrow at the bottom to scroll back [...]

Finally! I’ve got full albums up in the major online stores. Though most of the albums went “live” online a couple of weeks ago, I’ve waited until all of them were up everywhere before sending out a newsletter. You can now find 3 albums—Lost In The Mix, Halloween Soundscape and a new compilation album, 3 EPs [...]

All albums are listed with iTunes, Napster, Amazon mp3 and Rhapsody, but there is a problem with Rhapsody regarding the new album, 3 EPs. Currently they are only offering 3 tracks because of some problems they’re having. As a Tunecore artist, I at least have someone who is working with Rhapsody on the issue which [...]

I’ve been busy as albums go live in the major online stores. I’ve now got a new Listen! page with streaming widgets which play the full albums. The widgets have also been added to the albums’ liner notes pages. New wallpaper (from the new album art). You can click through the widgets and buy from [...]

Got an e-mail from a friend yesterday—all three Gymshoes albums are available from  iTunes now! I’m  in the process of getting my albums into online stores and they’re springing up sporadically like wildflowers all over the place, but should be in all stores by the end of March, first week in April at the latest.  [...]

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a happy holiday season. It’s January and I’ve hit the ground running by finishing up two Facebook pages. I now have Facebook pages with all my music for both Gymshoes and Undead Monkey. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gymshoes/88829490034 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Undead-Monkey/33498796378 If you have a Facebook profile, click through and become a Fan! There’s [...]

First let me say that I survived Hurricane Ike. We suffered no home damage, but it made a big mess of the trees in the yard. The chaos in the aftermath delayed my newsletter/online ballyhoo of the Halloween Soundscape album—for which long-time subscribers are no doubt grateful. LOL—but other than that I’m OK. Rave Review: [...]

As Halloween draws near, treat yourself to some spooky ambient music for the occasion. You can download either the individual tracks or the whole album from the store interface here or purchase the CD. Tracks on the CD are mixed so that they flow seamlessly into one another (with the exception of the final track, [...]

We’re home. *Hip-deep* in tree limbs, but the house is OK. We’ve lost the 2 big trees in the front…part of one is on the house, but surprisingly as we remove limbs it doesn’t look like the house is damaged (gutter crushed, but everything looks OK otherwise).  We didn’t flood or leak during the storm. [...]

We did evacuate ahead of Hurricane Ike. We’re safe, but not allowed to go back yet. I don’t have internet access where we’re staying, so I’m only online via a hotspot for a very short time and not necessarily every day, though I’m hoping to get online briefly every day. I appreciate all the messages [...]

My big dog, who was well-known to all of you as the dog in the “Technodog” artwork (though not the dog on the track), was put to sleep this morning after a brief, but agonizing, illness. We got no sleep last night, but now she is sleeping eternally and I am grieving eternally. She was [...]

I’ve added A Tropical Depression to the store interface. Profits from the sale of those songs will benefit the American Red Cross. I talked to Buzz (who sings on two of the tracks) and he was enthusiastic about the idea. Three of the songs were written right after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the other was [...]

I’m happy to announce that the Gymshoes catalogue is available from the BlastMyMusic interface on the Download page. As you know, most of my music is free from my website, so what I’ve done for albums and EPs with free songs in their track listing is price the whole album bundle according to the number [...]