Category: Music
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Music Video: Control Me
I wrote this song in 2019 and swore it would be the last I ever thought of my manipulative, abusive, loser ex. Unfortunately the song turned out pretty cool and I’m stuck with it. Now I just pretend it’s the theme song to Jessica Jones season 1. Because it should have been. But I hadn’t…
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Fan Collab Music Video: Four Lights – OR – How to advertise your band’s weird new single without using Meta
I cut this little music video together from the hundreds of videos folks made with our song. We ran a promo contest to get it some traction on Tiktok after I’d decided I couldn’t ethically pay for ads on Meta or Spotify (two of few avenues for indie music marketing). This was the second time…
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New Release: Always Be My Baby
Listen on: Spotify • Apple Music • BandcampFollow The Cancellations on: Instagram • TikTok • YouTube
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I bought my first guitar amp this week, and then I saw Slothrust and Calva Louise
I grew up around music. My dad played keys and sax in bands in Chicago, bringing me along whenever clubs thought it wasn’t a big deal to have a ten year old bouncing around on the side of the stage. I started playing pretty early on, moving from flute to sax to bassoon before falling…
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New Release: “Happy Endings (Aren’t for Us)” by The Cancellations
My Nashville-based but cross-country rock band The Cancellations released our first single of 2022 yesterday! This video was an undertaking to edit but I’m super happy with how cheery it came out in comparison to how dark and depressing the lyrical content of this song is. Long live The Cancellations! We miss you, Derek. I…