Rango
@matthewmeadows.bsky.social
Enterprise software developer & indie musician. Hard rock & metalish, 70's vibes on Spotify https://rango.short.gy/spotify.
Musicians, check your six at the Interactive Circle of Fifths! See & hear the relationships between chords in any key. Learn fingerings from piano and guitar visualizers: major, minor & diminished chords, pentatonic, diatonic & harmonized scales. Oddly addictive!
interactivecircleoffifths.com
interactivecircleoffifths.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Musicians, check your six at the Interactive Circle of Fifths! See & hear the relationships between chords in any key. Learn fingerings from piano and guitar visualizers: major, minor & diminished chords, pentatonic, diatonic & harmonized scales. Oddly addictive!
interactivecircleoffifths.com
interactivecircleoffifths.com
Rango | Gravity
Acceleration. Deceleration. Hard corners at full throttle. Seattle surf metal. Check your six!
open.spotify.com/track/0r3eMK...
Acceleration. Deceleration. Hard corners at full throttle. Seattle surf metal. Check your six!
open.spotify.com/track/0r3eMK...
Gravity
open.spotify.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Rango | Gravity
Acceleration. Deceleration. Hard corners at full throttle. Seattle surf metal. Check your six!
open.spotify.com/track/0r3eMK...
Acceleration. Deceleration. Hard corners at full throttle. Seattle surf metal. Check your six!
open.spotify.com/track/0r3eMK...
Spotify | Rango | Riverbell
Waiting for the Riverbell
A flower dies before the smell
I wonder why I wonder how
To say the things I'd never tell
open.spotify.com/track/0qUqOe...
Waiting for the Riverbell
A flower dies before the smell
I wonder why I wonder how
To say the things I'd never tell
open.spotify.com/track/0qUqOe...
Riverbell
open.spotify.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Spotify | Rango | Riverbell
Waiting for the Riverbell
A flower dies before the smell
I wonder why I wonder how
To say the things I'd never tell
open.spotify.com/track/0qUqOe...
Waiting for the Riverbell
A flower dies before the smell
I wonder why I wonder how
To say the things I'd never tell
open.spotify.com/track/0qUqOe...
It's not the alcohol, it's the phone. And the asshole connected to it. Any random drunk could do better as long as they have common sense keyboard hygiene and fewer Nazi tattoos. But here's an idea:
HOW ABOUT A GENERAL.
www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...
HOW ABOUT A GENERAL.
www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...
Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It's not the alcohol, it's the phone. And the asshole connected to it. Any random drunk could do better as long as they have common sense keyboard hygiene and fewer Nazi tattoos. But here's an idea:
HOW ABOUT A GENERAL.
www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...
HOW ABOUT A GENERAL.
www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...
Rango | Crossroad Mary
Took me 35 years to get to LA
Took the long way
Went back home the very next day
Looking for a place to stay
Lowdown, Motown,
White collar blues
Bottle of fix
And the wrong tattoo
soundcloud.com/matthewmeado...
Took me 35 years to get to LA
Took the long way
Went back home the very next day
Looking for a place to stay
Lowdown, Motown,
White collar blues
Bottle of fix
And the wrong tattoo
soundcloud.com/matthewmeado...
Crossroad Mary
Took me 35 years to get to LA
Took the long way
Went back home the very next day
Looking for a place to stay
Lowdown, Motown,
White collar blues
Bottle of fix
And the wrong tattoo
Zero down mortgage
soundcloud.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Rango | Crossroad Mary
Took me 35 years to get to LA
Took the long way
Went back home the very next day
Looking for a place to stay
Lowdown, Motown,
White collar blues
Bottle of fix
And the wrong tattoo
soundcloud.com/matthewmeado...
Took me 35 years to get to LA
Took the long way
Went back home the very next day
Looking for a place to stay
Lowdown, Motown,
White collar blues
Bottle of fix
And the wrong tattoo
soundcloud.com/matthewmeado...
Rango | Country Song
Popping back up to #1 on my Spotify for Artists, Country Song is my most popular track, with over 75,000 plays.
Scuff marks on the studio floor
Where we danced, the shoes you wore
Mountains crumble to the sea
Zeppelin songs, Jack White & me
spoti.fi/3Ud0oOi
Popping back up to #1 on my Spotify for Artists, Country Song is my most popular track, with over 75,000 plays.
Scuff marks on the studio floor
Where we danced, the shoes you wore
Mountains crumble to the sea
Zeppelin songs, Jack White & me
spoti.fi/3Ud0oOi
Country Song
Rango · Country Song · Song · 2024
spoti.fi
March 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Rango | Country Song
Popping back up to #1 on my Spotify for Artists, Country Song is my most popular track, with over 75,000 plays.
Scuff marks on the studio floor
Where we danced, the shoes you wore
Mountains crumble to the sea
Zeppelin songs, Jack White & me
spoti.fi/3Ud0oOi
Popping back up to #1 on my Spotify for Artists, Country Song is my most popular track, with over 75,000 plays.
Scuff marks on the studio floor
Where we danced, the shoes you wore
Mountains crumble to the sea
Zeppelin songs, Jack White & me
spoti.fi/3Ud0oOi
Rango | The Mistress
Did you know you can buy tracks on Bandcamp and directly support the artist? Pay as much as or as little as you want. Buy me a taco!
It's time to please mistress
She will only tease
Never mind your business
Bind you up and leave
matthewmeadows.bandcamp.com/track/the-mi...
Did you know you can buy tracks on Bandcamp and directly support the artist? Pay as much as or as little as you want. Buy me a taco!
It's time to please mistress
She will only tease
Never mind your business
Bind you up and leave
matthewmeadows.bandcamp.com/track/the-mi...
The Mistress, by Rango
from the album Etherati
matthewmeadows.bandcamp.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Rango | The Mistress
Did you know you can buy tracks on Bandcamp and directly support the artist? Pay as much as or as little as you want. Buy me a taco!
It's time to please mistress
She will only tease
Never mind your business
Bind you up and leave
matthewmeadows.bandcamp.com/track/the-mi...
Did you know you can buy tracks on Bandcamp and directly support the artist? Pay as much as or as little as you want. Buy me a taco!
It's time to please mistress
She will only tease
Never mind your business
Bind you up and leave
matthewmeadows.bandcamp.com/track/the-mi...
Rango | The Ringmaster
Original 2012 recording remastered by Maor Applebaum. The opening scene of a rock opera. 3 voices & 4 guitars. Currently #5 on my Spotify, this track is seeing a curious resurgence with over 1000 plays this week. Thank you!
open.spotify.com/track/0OGpPW...
Original 2012 recording remastered by Maor Applebaum. The opening scene of a rock opera. 3 voices & 4 guitars. Currently #5 on my Spotify, this track is seeing a curious resurgence with over 1000 plays this week. Thank you!
open.spotify.com/track/0OGpPW...
The Ringmaster
Rango · The Ringmaster · Song · 2024
open.spotify.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Rango | The Ringmaster
Original 2012 recording remastered by Maor Applebaum. The opening scene of a rock opera. 3 voices & 4 guitars. Currently #5 on my Spotify, this track is seeing a curious resurgence with over 1000 plays this week. Thank you!
open.spotify.com/track/0OGpPW...
Original 2012 recording remastered by Maor Applebaum. The opening scene of a rock opera. 3 voices & 4 guitars. Currently #5 on my Spotify, this track is seeing a curious resurgence with over 1000 plays this week. Thank you!
open.spotify.com/track/0OGpPW...
Rango | Constant Sorrow
A hard-edged take on an Appalachian classic. 4 voices, a dobro shootout and a drum riot on the porch. As heard in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, but more. Way more.
open.spotify.com/track/4Sd3Uh...
A hard-edged take on an Appalachian classic. 4 voices, a dobro shootout and a drum riot on the porch. As heard in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, but more. Way more.
open.spotify.com/track/4Sd3Uh...
Constant Sorrow
Rango · Constant Sorrow · Song · 2024
open.spotify.com
March 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Rango | Constant Sorrow
A hard-edged take on an Appalachian classic. 4 voices, a dobro shootout and a drum riot on the porch. As heard in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, but more. Way more.
open.spotify.com/track/4Sd3Uh...
A hard-edged take on an Appalachian classic. 4 voices, a dobro shootout and a drum riot on the porch. As heard in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, but more. Way more.
open.spotify.com/track/4Sd3Uh...
The entire Rango catalog is here on Soundcloud. It contains over 150 tracks, including 77 antique Rango Unmuzzled radio shows. Everything that's on my Spotify + dozens of one-offs, live recordings and demos going as far back as 1999.
soundcloud.com/matthewmeado...
soundcloud.com/matthewmeado...
Rango
Rango is a technology mashup artist operating on the fringes of the emerald city of Seattle.
soundcloud.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The entire Rango catalog is here on Soundcloud. It contains over 150 tracks, including 77 antique Rango Unmuzzled radio shows. Everything that's on my Spotify + dozens of one-offs, live recordings and demos going as far back as 1999.
soundcloud.com/matthewmeado...
soundcloud.com/matthewmeado...
I'm Rango, this is my Spotify page. Hard rock, metal, love songs & psychedelia. Straight from the woodshed. Find out why 4,000 listeners per month keep coming back.
open.spotify.com/artist/6DqRO...
open.spotify.com/artist/6DqRO...
Rango
Artist · 3.9K monthly listeners.
open.spotify.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'm Rango, this is my Spotify page. Hard rock, metal, love songs & psychedelia. Straight from the woodshed. Find out why 4,000 listeners per month keep coming back.
open.spotify.com/artist/6DqRO...
open.spotify.com/artist/6DqRO...
Anti-vaxxers have been pushing a meme that suggests the odds of death from measles is one in one trillion. As if that could be estimated on a planet with 8 billion people. The real statistic is that 3 in 1000 will die. We're just getting started.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Unvaccinated school-aged child dies of measles in Texas amid growing outbreak
It is the first measles death in the US since 2015.
arstechnica.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Anti-vaxxers have been pushing a meme that suggests the odds of death from measles is one in one trillion. As if that could be estimated on a planet with 8 billion people. The real statistic is that 3 in 1000 will die. We're just getting started.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Anti-vaxxers have been pushing a meme that suggests the odds of death from measles is one in one trillion. As if that could be estimated on a planet with 8 billion people. The real statistic is that 3 in 1000 will die. We're just getting started.
abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...
abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...
Measles death of unvaccinated child is 1st fatality in West Texas outbreak
An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people.
abcnews.go.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Anti-vaxxers have been pushing a meme that suggests the odds of death from measles is one in one trillion. As if that could be estimated on a planet with 8 billion people. The real statistic is that 3 in 1000 will die. We're just getting started.
abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...
abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...
Rango | Riverbell
Waiting for the river bell
A flower dies before the smell
I wonder why I wonder how
to say the things I’d never tell
#1 on my Spotify profile today. Dark, brooding and intense.
open.spotify.com/track/0qUqOe...
Waiting for the river bell
A flower dies before the smell
I wonder why I wonder how
to say the things I’d never tell
#1 on my Spotify profile today. Dark, brooding and intense.
open.spotify.com/track/0qUqOe...
Riverbell
Rango · Riverbell · Song · 2024
open.spotify.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Rango | Riverbell
Waiting for the river bell
A flower dies before the smell
I wonder why I wonder how
to say the things I’d never tell
#1 on my Spotify profile today. Dark, brooding and intense.
open.spotify.com/track/0qUqOe...
Waiting for the river bell
A flower dies before the smell
I wonder why I wonder how
to say the things I’d never tell
#1 on my Spotify profile today. Dark, brooding and intense.
open.spotify.com/track/0qUqOe...
Rango | Constant Sorrow
For six long years I've been in trouble
No pleasure here on earth I've found
For in this world I'm bound to ramble
I have no friends to help me now
open.spotify.com/track/4Sd3Uh...
For six long years I've been in trouble
No pleasure here on earth I've found
For in this world I'm bound to ramble
I have no friends to help me now
open.spotify.com/track/4Sd3Uh...
Constant Sorrow
Rango · Constant Sorrow · Song · 2024
open.spotify.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Rango | Constant Sorrow
For six long years I've been in trouble
No pleasure here on earth I've found
For in this world I'm bound to ramble
I have no friends to help me now
open.spotify.com/track/4Sd3Uh...
For six long years I've been in trouble
No pleasure here on earth I've found
For in this world I'm bound to ramble
I have no friends to help me now
open.spotify.com/track/4Sd3Uh...
My January on Spotify came with a surprise. Lens of Time was our most popular track for the month with over 6,000 plays. Feels like Pink Floyd.
A stolen kiss up on the hill
We talked, we danced, come what will
Come what may and ever be
Azure skies through storming seas
spoti.fi/3HAytAu
A stolen kiss up on the hill
We talked, we danced, come what will
Come what may and ever be
Azure skies through storming seas
spoti.fi/3HAytAu
Lens of Time
Rango · Lens of Time · Song · 2024
spoti.fi
February 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
My January on Spotify came with a surprise. Lens of Time was our most popular track for the month with over 6,000 plays. Feels like Pink Floyd.
A stolen kiss up on the hill
We talked, we danced, come what will
Come what may and ever be
Azure skies through storming seas
spoti.fi/3HAytAu
A stolen kiss up on the hill
We talked, we danced, come what will
Come what may and ever be
Azure skies through storming seas
spoti.fi/3HAytAu
By electing Trump, the US has invited a coup from the world's richest man. It's unfolding in real time. By the time you read the news it's already too late.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
By electing Trump, the US has invited a coup from the world's richest man. It's unfolding in real time. By the time you read the news it's already too late.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Rango | Country Song
Feels like a 70's rock anthem 😎
Scuff marks on the studio floor
Where we danced, the shoes you wore
Mountains crumble to the sea
Zeppelin songs, Jack White & me
spoti.fi/3Ud0oOi
Feels like a 70's rock anthem 😎
Scuff marks on the studio floor
Where we danced, the shoes you wore
Mountains crumble to the sea
Zeppelin songs, Jack White & me
spoti.fi/3Ud0oOi
Country Song
Rango · Country Song · Song · 2024
spoti.fi
January 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Rango | Country Song
Feels like a 70's rock anthem 😎
Scuff marks on the studio floor
Where we danced, the shoes you wore
Mountains crumble to the sea
Zeppelin songs, Jack White & me
spoti.fi/3Ud0oOi
Feels like a 70's rock anthem 😎
Scuff marks on the studio floor
Where we danced, the shoes you wore
Mountains crumble to the sea
Zeppelin songs, Jack White & me
spoti.fi/3Ud0oOi
Review time at work. I feel like I'm applying for the job all over again. You have to brag, humbly, and hope they agree.
January 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Review time at work. I feel like I'm applying for the job all over again. You have to brag, humbly, and hope they agree.
Rango | Lens of Time
A stolen kiss upon the hill
We talked, we danced, come what will
Come what may and ever be
Azure skies through storming seas
Currently drifting to the top of my Spotify. Piano & harmony vocals by the lovely Pamela Carlon <3😎🎹🎸
spoti.fi/3HAytAu
A stolen kiss upon the hill
We talked, we danced, come what will
Come what may and ever be
Azure skies through storming seas
Currently drifting to the top of my Spotify. Piano & harmony vocals by the lovely Pamela Carlon <3😎🎹🎸
spoti.fi/3HAytAu
Lens of Time
Rango · Lens of Time · Song · 2024
spoti.fi
January 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Rango | Lens of Time
A stolen kiss upon the hill
We talked, we danced, come what will
Come what may and ever be
Azure skies through storming seas
Currently drifting to the top of my Spotify. Piano & harmony vocals by the lovely Pamela Carlon <3😎🎹🎸
spoti.fi/3HAytAu
A stolen kiss upon the hill
We talked, we danced, come what will
Come what may and ever be
Azure skies through storming seas
Currently drifting to the top of my Spotify. Piano & harmony vocals by the lovely Pamela Carlon <3😎🎹🎸
spoti.fi/3HAytAu
Rango | Ringmaster
The ringmaster leads
A hit parade
Lions and tigers
Provincial charade
Angel pulls
the puppet strings
Above the lights,
In the middle ring
spoti.fi/4b7hsvb
The ringmaster leads
A hit parade
Lions and tigers
Provincial charade
Angel pulls
the puppet strings
Above the lights,
In the middle ring
spoti.fi/4b7hsvb
The Ringmaster
Rango · The Ringmaster · Song · 2024
spoti.fi
January 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Rango | Ringmaster
The ringmaster leads
A hit parade
Lions and tigers
Provincial charade
Angel pulls
the puppet strings
Above the lights,
In the middle ring
spoti.fi/4b7hsvb
The ringmaster leads
A hit parade
Lions and tigers
Provincial charade
Angel pulls
the puppet strings
Above the lights,
In the middle ring
spoti.fi/4b7hsvb
Installing the Oracle 19 database client, wondering how the hell it requires 1.2GB of code. Add it to my list of reasons I hate Oracle.
January 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Installing the Oracle 19 database client, wondering how the hell it requires 1.2GB of code. Add it to my list of reasons I hate Oracle.
Hot take:
We're not going to change Daylight Savings Time any time soon. The programmers of the world would like to have a word with you. That would be a massive undertaking, dwarfing Y2K, taking years to complete, for no financial benefit to anyone other than the programmers doing the work. 1/3
We're not going to change Daylight Savings Time any time soon. The programmers of the world would like to have a word with you. That would be a massive undertaking, dwarfing Y2K, taking years to complete, for no financial benefit to anyone other than the programmers doing the work. 1/3
December 16, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Hot take:
We're not going to change Daylight Savings Time any time soon. The programmers of the world would like to have a word with you. That would be a massive undertaking, dwarfing Y2K, taking years to complete, for no financial benefit to anyone other than the programmers doing the work. 1/3
We're not going to change Daylight Savings Time any time soon. The programmers of the world would like to have a word with you. That would be a massive undertaking, dwarfing Y2K, taking years to complete, for no financial benefit to anyone other than the programmers doing the work. 1/3