Jimmy Ether
@jimmyether.bsky.social
Record Producer/Engineer. Runs Headphone Treats label. Co-publisher of Record Plug Magazine. Bands: Loud Humans, Victory Hands, The Ether Family Presents…
So, when I put out a 100-song psychedelic horror-core concept album called “At War With Rats”, know that it’s not metaphorical. I’m not railing against corporatism and bootlickers. Well, I am, generally but … no, it’s my literal current life. And so far the varmints are winning.
January 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
So, when I put out a 100-song psychedelic horror-core concept album called “At War With Rats”, know that it’s not metaphorical. I’m not railing against corporatism and bootlickers. Well, I am, generally but … no, it’s my literal current life. And so far the varmints are winning.
I don’t believe in ghosts. But I kinda wish the house we’re renovating was haunted by the guy who built it. I have a lot of questions for him.
January 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I don’t believe in ghosts. But I kinda wish the house we’re renovating was haunted by the guy who built it. I have a lot of questions for him.
It's kind of crazy renovating an "old" house and discovering all kinds of "old" building techniques and "old" and heavily lived-in quirkiness, only to realize the house is only three years older than I am.
December 29, 2024 at 2:38 AM
It's kind of crazy renovating an "old" house and discovering all kinds of "old" building techniques and "old" and heavily lived-in quirkiness, only to realize the house is only three years older than I am.
I’ve somehow squeezed two weeks into the last two days. Talked all day yesterday with septic guys and building contractors. Trying to uncover the construction history of the house add ons. Going over all the options with the barn studio build, which keep changing for the better.
December 18, 2024 at 11:34 AM
I’ve somehow squeezed two weeks into the last two days. Talked all day yesterday with septic guys and building contractors. Trying to uncover the construction history of the house add ons. Going over all the options with the barn studio build, which keep changing for the better.
We closed on a 1970 built property with a big goat/chicken barn yesterday. Going to build my dream “barn studio”. This will be my 7th studio build, but the biggest and most no-holds-barred. I’ll try to document the whole experience.
December 17, 2024 at 10:33 AM
We closed on a 1970 built property with a big goat/chicken barn yesterday. Going to build my dream “barn studio”. This will be my 7th studio build, but the biggest and most no-holds-barred. I’ll try to document the whole experience.
@losingmyopinion.bsky.social “and what exactly is Nixon rock?”
Well, since you asked:
victoryhands.com
😂
Well, since you asked:
victoryhands.com
😂
Victory Hands and the Richard Nixon White House tapes
Victory Hands are an Atlanta-based quartet of veteran musicians playing angular rhythms and anthemic melodies with lyrics taken straight from the tapes and speeches of Richard Milhous Nixon.
victoryhands.com
December 10, 2024 at 5:37 PM
@losingmyopinion.bsky.social “and what exactly is Nixon rock?”
Well, since you asked:
victoryhands.com
😂
Well, since you asked:
victoryhands.com
😂
Watching the Yacht Rock doc and it occurred to me that Christopher Cross is Billy Corgan if Corgan wasn't an douchebag narcissist. Like, Billy Corgan is Bizarro Christopher Cross. I don't know why this is the case, but it is an absolute fact.
December 3, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Watching the Yacht Rock doc and it occurred to me that Christopher Cross is Billy Corgan if Corgan wasn't an douchebag narcissist. Like, Billy Corgan is Bizarro Christopher Cross. I don't know why this is the case, but it is an absolute fact.
Literally 30 years ago today I saw this Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 show at The Point in Atlanta. They twisted my mind permanently.
Video Ed is yet again deserving of thanks for documenting this era.
youtu.be/VBfO4FRA6ps?...
Video Ed is yet again deserving of thanks for documenting this era.
youtu.be/VBfO4FRA6ps?...
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Live 1994 - Full Show
YouTube video by vacantmoon
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October 28, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Literally 30 years ago today I saw this Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 show at The Point in Atlanta. They twisted my mind permanently.
Video Ed is yet again deserving of thanks for documenting this era.
youtu.be/VBfO4FRA6ps?...
Video Ed is yet again deserving of thanks for documenting this era.
youtu.be/VBfO4FRA6ps?...
An essay on "Why Write A Letter That You'll Never Send" by The Drones.
I can’t think of a single song that better encompasses my feelings about the world at the moment. It’s painful, angry, desperate, and pleading. But entirely beautiful.
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I can’t think of a single song that better encompasses my feelings about the world at the moment. It’s painful, angry, desperate, and pleading. But entirely beautiful.
open.substack.com/pub/jimmyeth...
I just wanna make the world a much less painful place...
An essay on "Why Write A Letter That You'll Never Send" by The Dones
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July 19, 2024 at 6:43 PM
An essay on "Why Write A Letter That You'll Never Send" by The Drones.
I can’t think of a single song that better encompasses my feelings about the world at the moment. It’s painful, angry, desperate, and pleading. But entirely beautiful.
open.substack.com/pub/jimmyeth...
I can’t think of a single song that better encompasses my feelings about the world at the moment. It’s painful, angry, desperate, and pleading. But entirely beautiful.
open.substack.com/pub/jimmyeth...
A great technical breakdown of why AI in music creation produces poor results.
open.substack.com/pub/patrickh...
open.substack.com/pub/patrickh...
Why Does AI Music Suck?
A conversation with music theory professor Christopher White
open.substack.com
July 8, 2024 at 7:07 PM
A great technical breakdown of why AI in music creation produces poor results.
open.substack.com/pub/patrickh...
open.substack.com/pub/patrickh...
Big thanks to Chad Radford for the Victory Hands write up in the latest issue of Record Plug Magazine.
Hope to see you all at Bogg’s July 9th, Atlanta!
Hope to see you all at Bogg’s July 9th, Atlanta!
July 3, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Big thanks to Chad Radford for the Victory Hands write up in the latest issue of Record Plug Magazine.
Hope to see you all at Bogg’s July 9th, Atlanta!
Hope to see you all at Bogg’s July 9th, Atlanta!
Yesterday, Rick Beato claimed that “music is getting worse”. I wonder what he and his legion of subscribers qualify as music. Is it merely what’s on the radio? What’s rising in the streaming charts? What’s getting press attention?
Read more here:
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Read more here:
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Music is not getting worse.
Perhaps, your discovery process is simply lazy.
open.substack.com
June 26, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Yesterday, Rick Beato claimed that “music is getting worse”. I wonder what he and his legion of subscribers qualify as music. Is it merely what’s on the radio? What’s rising in the streaming charts? What’s getting press attention?
Read more here:
open.substack.com/pub/jimmyeth...
Read more here:
open.substack.com/pub/jimmyeth...
Ted Gioia posted this about AI in music to his The Honest Broker music newsletter:
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I don’t necessarily disagree with anything Gioia says here. (Con’t)
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I don’t necessarily disagree with anything Gioia says here. (Con’t)
How the Music Business Can Tame the Dangerous AI Dragon
Here's a five point plan that makes a difference (and not just for music)
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June 25, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Ted Gioia posted this about AI in music to his The Honest Broker music newsletter:
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
I don’t necessarily disagree with anything Gioia says here. (Con’t)
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
I don’t necessarily disagree with anything Gioia says here. (Con’t)
I started a thing. Ahhhhh Newsletters: humanity's manna in an emerging robot world. Subscribe (for free) if you want to hear me ramble about music. It's like LiveJournal with slightly fewer Russians.
jimmyether.substack.com/p/jimmy-ethe...
jimmyether.substack.com/p/jimmy-ethe...
Jimmy Ether's Striking Kooks
Inaugural ramblings from my brand spankin' new Substack. There will be talk of songwriting, music making, recording, releasing, and all the things surrounding that lifestyle.
jimmyether.substack.com
June 24, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I started a thing. Ahhhhh Newsletters: humanity's manna in an emerging robot world. Subscribe (for free) if you want to hear me ramble about music. It's like LiveJournal with slightly fewer Russians.
jimmyether.substack.com/p/jimmy-ethe...
jimmyether.substack.com/p/jimmy-ethe...
This album is exceptionally good. Jeff Tweedy and son loft production too.
finom.bandcamp.com/album/not-god
finom.bandcamp.com/album/not-god
Not God, by Finom
9 track album
finom.bandcamp.com
June 23, 2024 at 12:16 PM
This album is exceptionally good. Jeff Tweedy and son loft production too.
finom.bandcamp.com/album/not-god
finom.bandcamp.com/album/not-god
Day 3 of recording sessions for the excellent Small Moving Parts (6 songs tracked so far, 4 with vocals - a pretty good pace) and just finished playing a short Loud Humans/Victory Hands set at Corndogorama. I’m running on pure adrenaline at this point.
June 23, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Day 3 of recording sessions for the excellent Small Moving Parts (6 songs tracked so far, 4 with vocals - a pretty good pace) and just finished playing a short Loud Humans/Victory Hands set at Corndogorama. I’m running on pure adrenaline at this point.
Atlanta: See you at the eyedrum Friday night for Radfest!
January 17, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Atlanta: See you at the eyedrum Friday night for Radfest!
My band, Loud Humans, has a rough mix of a new song, "Charm Offensive", from our upcoming EP featured exclusively on Chad Radford's RadATL site. Check it out and hope to see you Atlanta folks at the eyedrum art & music gallery this Friday for RADFEST!
radatl.com/2024/01/16/l...
radatl.com/2024/01/16/l...
January 17, 2024 at 3:15 AM
My band, Loud Humans, has a rough mix of a new song, "Charm Offensive", from our upcoming EP featured exclusively on Chad Radford's RadATL site. Check it out and hope to see you Atlanta folks at the eyedrum art & music gallery this Friday for RADFEST!
radatl.com/2024/01/16/l...
radatl.com/2024/01/16/l...
ATL: FREE Dec 10th @ 7pm
The Record Plug Holiday Show
At Inner Space - Underground Atlanta
With sets by: Victory Hands, Coma Therapy, Pretty Please, and High Visceral
Free Giveaways & Raffle Prizes Between Bands of Musical Equipment, and Record Store Gift Cards
The Record Plug Holiday Show
At Inner Space - Underground Atlanta
With sets by: Victory Hands, Coma Therapy, Pretty Please, and High Visceral
Free Giveaways & Raffle Prizes Between Bands of Musical Equipment, and Record Store Gift Cards
December 1, 2023 at 7:54 PM
ATL: FREE Dec 10th @ 7pm
The Record Plug Holiday Show
At Inner Space - Underground Atlanta
With sets by: Victory Hands, Coma Therapy, Pretty Please, and High Visceral
Free Giveaways & Raffle Prizes Between Bands of Musical Equipment, and Record Store Gift Cards
The Record Plug Holiday Show
At Inner Space - Underground Atlanta
With sets by: Victory Hands, Coma Therapy, Pretty Please, and High Visceral
Free Giveaways & Raffle Prizes Between Bands of Musical Equipment, and Record Store Gift Cards
Reposted by Jimmy Ether
Let me just state the obvious: it is way, way more impressive for Shane McGowan to live to 65 than it is for Henry Kissinger to live to 100
November 30, 2023 at 12:48 PM
Let me just state the obvious: it is way, way more impressive for Shane McGowan to live to 65 than it is for Henry Kissinger to live to 100
What is the greatest comic scene in a movie and why is it the Beatles scene from Walk Hard?
Walk Hard - Beatles scene
youtu.be
November 24, 2023 at 3:56 AM
What is the greatest comic scene in a movie and why is it the Beatles scene from Walk Hard?
Reposted by Jimmy Ether
Shout out to Kelley Deal’s crackwhore shirt in Dig
November 23, 2023 at 7:08 AM
Shout out to Kelley Deal’s crackwhore shirt in Dig
Hiya. I'll be over here talking about #songwriting #guitar #recording #mixing #mastering and #records that are good. If any of those things appeal.
November 22, 2023 at 9:08 PM
Hiya. I'll be over here talking about #songwriting #guitar #recording #mixing #mastering and #records that are good. If any of those things appeal.