Digital Release Re-Cap 2003-2009

Regular readers of the "My Band Rocks" blog (all three of you) know that the "Audio Archives" column here has been the venue for unearthing and releasing many rare recordings from the Mojo Wire, Honey White, and other projects involving us guys from those bands. Before that, I'd uploaded every show we did to the Live Music Archive, so there's a substantial amount of music that has never been released on CD.

There were several re-issues (for lack of a better word)—the four Mojo Wire albums had digital resurrections, each with a slew of outtakes attached; the first Low Tide E.P. and Bryn's solo album also came back to haunt us via mp3 as well. For the most part, though, the digital items were all previously unreleased:

The Mojo Wire - Bedrock Crude (2003)
Companion to the CD best-of Low Fidelity Favorites, this was the first "My Band Rocks" release available only as a download.



The Mojo Wire - Honey White - Live Shows Archive (2005)
Tyler Huff pushed me to upload every Mojo Wire and http://www.archive.org/details/HoneyWhite live show to the Live Music Archive (20 in total), in a feeble echo of Pearl Jam's similar stunt with their own stuff. Formats are .shn and .mp3.

Honey White - How Far is the Fall Singles (2007)
B-sides to non-existent singles from Honey White's full length studio album.



The Mojo Wire - Rare and Unreleased Vol. 1 & 2 (2007)
Ill-advised barrel-scraping exercise of barfing up the good, bad, and ugly of Mojo stuff 1996-2001.





Honey White - Rehearsal Tapes Vol. 1 & 2 (2007)
Double-whammy helping of the best bits from HW practice sessions.





Honey White - How Far is the Fall Take Root Sessions (2008)
Two-volume release of each take of each song from HW's first weekend in the studio, July 2004.





Honey White - My Band Rocks! Sessions (2008)
Each instrumental take of each song recorded for HW's debut E.P. in July 2002.



Honey White - Secret Jam Band (2008)
Instrumental jams from HW practice sessions, 2002-2007.



Bryn DuBois - Alone and Bored (2008)
The HW frontman compiles some recordings he did back in the year 2000.



Low Tide - Washouts (2009)
Outtakes from Keir's side project's 2008 Weapon of Young Gods album.



There's not a lot left in the vaults after this—short of a few Honey White barrel-scraping posts and an albums' worth of Brian's solo stuff—so it's a good thing that we have all been making various "let's play again" noises at each other. You've been warned.

Be Careful Not to Touch the Wall

(Cross-posted from Dubious Ventures)

Yeah Bobby, cause there's a brand-new coat of paint going up over at ye olde My Band Rocks Dot Com. Mira:





The Honey White version of the site has actually looked like this for most of 2009, but I figured it was high time to re-vamp the rest of the bands' pages over there and effectively bring them into the year 2001 with some basic, gimpy CSS. Right now they look a little bare-bones, for sure—but the plan is to (relatively soon) integrate them with a relatively agile content management system like MODx.

Also, they're pretty dependent on social media tools for content right now. Those ugly little ShareThis! buttons are on every page, the HW news is piped in via FeedBurner's RSS thingy, all photos are in Flickr slideshows (and it'll probably use Lightbox at some point too), HW and Low Tide have small YouTube pages, and as always every album is streaming in the XSPF Flash players from archive.org. But it's a start. More as it develops...