SnowGhost Music

I got a phone message from Sean Moeller of Daytrotter: “Looks like we could be working together sooner than we thought”. We had been bumping into each other at festivals like Noise Pop and South By Southwest, and agreed that we were two kindred spirits that should hang out more often. Intrigued by his mysterious voicemail, I called him back and asked what he had in the works.

Death Cab for Cutie was set to release their new record with Atlantic and wanted to do something unique to drum up some hype. Daytrotter, the music media darling of la... read more >

In the previous post, there was talk of the shitty album. Closer inspection of said blog would reveal that ‘shitty’ referred to the overall quality of an album as a musical piece of work. Something that somehow didn’t occur to me at the time, despite the fact that we here at SnowGhost are complete wine snobs of audio quality, was the sonic production value of an album. Obviously, though this wasn’t so obvious to me very recently, the way an album is recorded and how it sounds is crucial to the level at which one can enjoy it. A shitty-sounding album, even if it is full of great songs, is still shitty, right? Or is it a great album that transcends sonic concerns because it is a marvel of songwriting, band cohesion, emotional captu... read more >

Rome wasn’t built in a day. You can’t rush perfection, nor can you put a price on it. Good things come to those who wait. These are not just the clichéd excuses of contractors and the eternally slow and lazy. These are the universal explanations for why we have to wait so long for something we thought we should have already had. Sometimes the delay mixes with anticipation and magnifies the elation when the product or project turns out nicely, and other times the waiting can multiply the disappointment. I can’t begin to describe to you how disappointed I was when Jaws 3 (in 3-D!) finally came out, not to mention Jar Jar Binks years later, so instead I will talk about music.

Much has been made lately about the impending ... read more >