:: mike errico diary ::

:: Sunday, January 29, 2006 ::

THIS JUST IN:

Good Morning, Music Fans!

It's official: Mr. Mike Errico, is now the editor of Blender.com! Mike's been with us on a freelance basis, and his dry humor and awesome glasses have made him an online legend. So, why's he's forgoing freelance for full-time? It's necessary to completely revamp Blender.com to be as big as we know it can be, so we needed a genuine rock star to make it happen. Imagine that, an actual musician heading up a site about music. Revolutionary!

In the coming months there will be a totally new Blender.com and Mike's been working tirelessly to generate new concepts on how we're gonna cover music. So stop by, say hello and congratulate our new King of Rock. (There really is none higher.) And any ideas you have regarding what you think the new Blender.com should include, feel free to send them along to him.
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Gene Newman
Editor in Chief, MaximNet
Stuffmagazine.com | MaximOnline.com
Blender.com | Theweekmagazine.com
:: mike 6:50 AM [+] ::

Live From WTMD Volume 1-From the Very Beginning is out and available to subscribers of this great Baltimore-based station.

A live, unreleased version of "Grace," from SKIMMING shares the CD with

Tim Easton "Baltimore"
Marc Broussard "Rock Steady"
Son Volt "Afterglow 61"
Butterfly Boucher "Another White Dash"
Fools & Horses "Frera"
Mike Doughty "Madeline and Nine"
The Duhks "Death Came A Knockin'"
Bruce Cockburn "Pacing the Cage"
Matthew Ryan "Little Things"
Brandi Carlile "Hallelujah"
Ben Arnold "Calico Kid"
Danielia Cotton "Take My Heart"
The Fray "How to Save a Life"
Alexi Murdoch "Orange Sky"

CLICK HERE FOR INFO:
https://secure.publicbroadcasting.net/wtmd/pledge.pledgemain?action=pledge&pg=pledgeForm

post a playlist.
:: mike 11:24 AM [+] ::

From the "WTF?" files:


ABSOLUT Launches ABSOLUT KRAVITZ:


A Groundbreaking Global Music Project Featuring a New Interpretation of the Brand by Lenny Kravitz

ABSOLUT is proud to announce the launch of ABSOLUT KRAVITZ - a new music project which sees Lenny Kravitz creating an exclusive new track based on his interpretation of the ABSOLUT brand.

'We are thrilled to have Lenny Kravitz with us on our creative journey and in this, our first high-profile music project' says Michael Persson, Global Brand Director for ABSOLUT VODKA. 'Not only is he supremely talented; his output, inspired by so many genres and eras of music, defies categorization, making him truly individual - a quality which means he is perfectly at home with the creativity of ABSOLUT.'

Kravitz said that he was inspired by the brand's core values of clarity, simplicity and perfection. 'There's nothing more simple, clear or perfect than the essence of true love,' he says. 'Once I'd felt that, the track just came.'


post a nightmare.
:: mike 9:42 AM [+] ::

The "Pacific Coast Hellway" podcast is featuring some of my music lately (http://www.pacificcoasthellway.com/), and the producers got a pretty funny email:


Dear Mark,




Firstly, may I thank you for bringing Mike Errico to my attention. I

have really enjoyed the songs of his you have played and will be

buying his albums as soon as the bank tells me I can use my credit

cards again. However, I must object to the song "7 Bottles of Bristol

Cream" you played on the "all music" show at the turn of the year.

Come on! 7 bottles?!? "Tonight I drink you all"!!!!




When I was a student, I used to spend the summer vacation working in

Germany. One night I was sitting drinking with a group of friends when

some bottles of the afore mentioned beverage were produced. I won't

bore you with the gory details, but suffice it to say that not only

did I drink a full bottle, but I woke up in a different country

(Switzerland) with a bunch of builders from Poland who I swear I had

never met before. And to cap it all, I had a hangover that lasted a

month.




Please tell your listeners not to heed Errico's call. Bristol Cream

truly is the Devil's brew.




Yours in abstinence,




Jack in Scotland.
:: mike 2:43 PM [+] ::

A play I music supervised has just opened off-Broadway. The New York Times liked it. I'm glad. I've been working with these people on and off for a couple of years.


NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW.



post a troubled dream.
:: mike 7:44 AM [+] ::

Happy 2006. I'm psyched.

The songs for the new record are all sketched out, and the drum arrangements are all in place. It'll be great to hear an actual drum kit, instead of me and blake slapping our knees, stomping the floor and spraying spit all over the place. yeah. drums are better than that. for sure.

Several bass lines are also done. I've bought some new studio gear which I'm very excited about, and that's going to help the process. As is listening. A lot. To good shit. Like Pink Floyd. Which I can't stop listening to. Just so good. So good.




"What Then," a play I'm music supervising, opens on Monday. What's it about? Well... Someone begins to blur the lines between dreams and reality. Others follow. Toxic airborne events loom in the near future. A big bag of blood splatters all over the set. I think I'm playing classical guitar. Eventually, there's no way to tell which plane of existence you're experiencing, and which one you're in.

Good shit.

That'll be at the Ohio Theater, Wooster St., NYC


post a complaint.
:: mike 11:30 AM [+] ::