Posted on February 28, 2009 by Aron Gibson
I was back at Moonlight Studios on 2/23/09 mixing “Worldwide Pop Star” with The Swagger Sticks, after our drum session the previous Wednesday, when I got the crazy idea of adding horns to my power pop/punk song “Worldwide Pop Star.”
I don’t know where the idea for horns came from but once I got it my head it’s all [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2009 by Aron Gibson
Hello everybody, The Swagger Sticks are back at Moonlight Studios today (Wednesday 2/20) and I’m blogging in real time again. Jeff Lewis is behind the soundboard and we will be recording Simon Hancock as he plays drums on four more Swagger Sticks songs. The guitars, bass, vocals etc. have already been recorded so it will just be Simon playing his signature [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2009 by Aron Gibson
So I’m “coming to you live” from Moonlight Studios (I’m blogging in real time here) with my engineer/producer Jeff Lewis. I’m here tonight (Monday 2/16/09) getting ready to record live drums on four more songs for the soon-to-be-released Swagger Sticks EP. Tonight we’re just setting up the tracks and then we’ll be back on Wednesday [...]
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Posted on February 13, 2009 by Aron Gibson
So I told my friend Nancy Hancock that I was going to check out this band called Mad Planet over at The Silver Lake Lounge on Tuesday. I was all excited about being on the cutting edge of the Los Angeles indie scene and I proudly told her, “Yeah, the guy from Bang Sugar Bang is in [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2009 by Aron Gibson
Hey all you punk rockas! Here’s an update from the Rancid Myspace blog regarding the punk rock legends upcoming record and 2009 tour…
2009 is sure to be an exciting year for Rancid. Our good friend and producer Brett Gurewitz has finished mixing our new record set to release around spring of this year. We’ve all been working [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2009 by Aron Gibson
I was at O’Brien’s Irish Pub (on Main St.) in Santa Monica a few weeks ago checking out the back room, where they have live music, in anticipation of a show I had booked to play with my band later that month. I figured I’d find a half-empty room with some crappy cover band cranking out Oasis covers.
Boy, [...]
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