The Red Frog Blog

The end of our work week just got a whole lot bettah.

5 gold stars if anyone can name all the visible albums right thurr in my iTunes. Ok, and you’ll get a copy of the Jetsetter album.

In case you haven’t gotten it already, here, at Ancient Wisdom, we tend to like music, a lot actually, and at least one of us is especially talented.

Part of our musical inclination leads us to discover the wide variety of music new and old out there. I like to call it our musical education. And I have learned about way more music in the past few months than at any other time in my life. Keeping our musical selection lively in our office keeps our office going, for sure.

The best is when you discover a new song that you just can’t stop listening to. This doesn’t happen every day. Tyler acquired this great song on iTunes for free no less, “Time to Pretend” by MGMT, found on Oracular Spectacular. (more…)

The entire office (sans Bryan, who wasn’t even in the state) went to the previously mentioned Rustic Overtones show at the Haunt last week, which was, as the title reads, Rockin’.

I didn’t know what to expect, and I think had lower expectations because of the general weirdness surrounding it all. So I’ll keep the review short: the show was great. Maybe better than some of the best Rustic shows during their previous prime. The mix was a little drum/bass heavy (Tony & Jon, you rocked though) and I was wishing for a little more from Spencer’s keys (which is never the case, WTF?). But sound aside, the performance was tight! Here’s the complete setlist:

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I’m 26 today, and we celebrated like:

Thanks guys.

Well it was only a matter of time, but a lot of people (mostly from Maine, like me) are really really happy about this.

(Dave Gutter’s (left) signature megaphone performance during “Smoke”. Spencer - right - in awe.)

Rustic Overtones are back, and more importantly, they are going to rock a show in Ithaca at the Haunt (4/4/08).

I last saw these guys perform a half-hearted set at Cornell many years ago. Minus 1/3 of the original members. I left disappointed to say the least. This came about a year after they performed at The Haunt in one of the best sounding, worst attended Rustic shows I’ve been to. Which came a year or so after I left Maine for the college life at IC, and missed a ton of awesomeness with the band I grew up idolizing. ripple dissolve to...
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