Creative roadblock? Simplify. Add deadline. Then Fight!
When you’re inspired to create something, and there is some mental roadblock keeping you from executing on your inspiration, I’ve always found it’s helpful to simplify. Reduce the number of options to you. Force yourself to create something with just a handful of tools. Or just one tool. Just one color. One instrument. One theme. […]
Sorry I Ruined Your Life [music video]
Here is the music video for my new song “Sorry I Ruined Your Life”. Working on a new album now! 🙂 buy  steal [mp3j track=”Sorry I Ruined Your Life@https://stateshirt.wpengine.com/audio/videosongs/stateshirt_sorryiruinedyourlife.mp3″ flip=”y”] This one was fun to put together. It started off as a simple video song in my studio. But the song is about destruction so […]
March of the Drones [live looping]
Just recorded a new live looping track the other night. All sounds are created and recorded live, nothing here is pre-recorded. 🙂 Using Circular Labs Mobius looping software on my Macbook. Hope you like it. buy  steal [mp3j track=”March of the Drones@https://stateshirt.wpengine.com/audio/videosongs/stateshirt_marchofthedrones.mp3″ flip=”y”] Lyrics: the drones are coming the drones are coming they believe we […]
2012 – State Shirt year in review!
2012 was a crazy year. Put together a bunch of videos and wrote a ton of songs. Looks like 2013 will be even more productive. Here is a mega-post of just about everything that I’ve worked on in 2012! Happy new year. Video Songs Pretty Horses Found this old Yamaha PSS-480 keyboard from the 1980s […]
Let’s Get Bloody music video by Jeremy J Quinn
Here’s the music video for my song “Let’s Get Bloody”. This was conceived, shot and edited by Jeremy J Quinn (JeremyJQuinn.net) with additional camera by Michele Jaquis. Statues provided by guy selling statues in Hollywood. Thanks Jeremy for putting this together!! 🙂 Here are some photos that I took during the video shoot.
Dig Believe [video song cover]
Here is my cover version of a track you may remember from the early 1990s from the band Dig. This one was in pretty heavy rotation on MTV’s old “buzz bin” back in the day. I recorded this in a “video song” format—what you see is what you hear, all video captured during the creation […]
OMD Souvenir cover song
Hey. I just finished recording a cover of “Souvenir” by OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark). I’d consider this mix a “beta” mix, but it’s pretty close. Listen below: [mp3j track=”Souvenir@/audio/unreleased/stateshirt_souvenir.mp3″ flip=”y”] steal mp3 I haven’t created a music video for my cover version yet, but for the time being check out the original […]
Please Stop!
Just put together a music video for my new song “Please Stop”. Everything was shot in los angeles. Please Stop – DOWNLOAD lyrics please stop believing that nature will care for you crawl up the river and embrace your solitude. heartbeat slows, your wounds won’t close? please stop believing that your friends can keep you […]
Let’s Get Bloody [live looping]
Song-a-week / video-a-week #5. “Let’s Get Bloody”. Recorded for the upcoming SongFight. This was recorded live, nothing prerecorded, nothing overdubbed after the fact… all live looping. Let’s Get Bloody – DOWNLOAD This was recorded live using two Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro’s, a Casio SK-8, Yamaha DX21, Line 6 DL4 and my voice. If you have […]
Crush music video – stop motion animation
Last week I recorded the new song “Crush”. Hope you like it. Crush – DOWNLOAD – Lyrics This week I gave myself the challenge of creating a music video in 7 days. Budget was $0. The shopping cart was left on my street and the paper was from old fashion and art magazines. Ok I […]