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i hope everyone is enjoying the new music from yearlongday/jonathan t marlowe. as you listen to such recent releases as “st. elmo’s fire” and “like lennon”, i urge you to visit Avant Fab, a blog about “Arts…Culture…Fashion…and a Whole Lotta Talent on the Fringe“. it was “Avant Fab” before i was, so please give it [...]

in 1996, i was introduced to an album that changed both what i listened to & how i listened: eno’s 1975 breakthrough another green world. although this album led me into eno’s later ambient projects, the stand-out track for me was the more teleological composition, “st. elmo’s fire“. this is not to be confused with [...]

i’ve played bars, but i wouldn’t categorize yearlongday as a ‘bar band‘. it requires a different kind of artistry to be a successful ‘bar band’… a band that not only performs its repertoire with rote expertise, but also conjures energy from the audience seemingly out of thin (or thick) air. that’s not yearlongday… we lack [...]

what a fabulous year 2011 has been so far! let’s reminisce together… january- the original shot-story four years come, four years go is published. it is a narrative companion to my first album, humans, and foreshadows the imminent release of the “expanded edition“. doesn’t make a blip on the radar. february- the announcement is made [...]

far be it from me to build mountains from molehills, but 2011 is showing potential to be another epic year for jonathan t marlowe & co. consider the evidence… – march: my first album, “humans” is restored and expanded to 29 songs, including 14 bonus tracks of rare, previously unreleased material & new, decade-anniversary mixes. [...]

predicted by jonathan t marlowe in 2003, robot jazz has finally arrived! i don’t know exactly how to explain the way i feel about this development in artificial intelligence. “bitter” and “foolish” come to mind. “foolish” because i secretly witheld the idea of robot jazz for roughly a decade; i’ve auditioned nearly a half-dozen drummers [...]

the beatles the who the rolling stones the answer to the final question in the last post: crazy from the heat, by david lee roth. “california girls“ and “just a gigalo“ got large amounts of videoplay & airplay, as i recall. but after a recent listen, “coconut grove“ is the song that seems to resound [...]

david lee roth (crazy from the heat) phil collins (hello, i must be going) billy idol (vital idol) a few words before i explain the images above… food science has made it household knowledge that we will likely experience flatulence after eating beans, process regularly after consuming prunes, increase our alertness after drinking caffienated beverages. the way [...]

something tells me i should read this book…

my most recent blog was written with the suspicion that some individuals might take personal offense to the opinions i expressed. moreso, some might claim that i went too far by describing as contributors to yearlongday’s descent the very people, places, or things that we heavily and frequently relied upon for support over the past five years. [...]