Keith Novak
A man and a musician
Thomas and the Skank Engines Tour: Day Six
In: Music
5 Mar 2010
A flyer for one of the Skank Engine shows
Finally, the tour has kicked off (as our last show was on Saturday night)! Our second and third shows of our “More Waves Than You Know What To Do With” Tour were acoustic shows, meaning we had to switch our sound up a bit. I rocked out on some djembe with Brian on his strange irish drum. Guitar became acoustic, and the bass and the horns pretty much stayed the way they are, except Tom sang and played bass as Blake played violin. Overall it was a very interesting switch, but i’m glad I can start rocking out on a drumset for our next two shows. My hands are starting to feel the wrath of my djembe playing.
In between Saturday’s show in Bloomsburg and Tuesday, I went home and visited the family. I also took Kerns home and back to campus on Monday. We stayed there for a night before finally meeting up with the rest of the band again. They were getting lonely without their percussionists. Crazy parties did ensue.
Excited for a show in Philadelphia tomorrow. If anyone is in the area and wants to check us out, see this Facebook event for more details: Philly Show
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Thomas and the Skank Engines Tour: Day One
In: Music
28 Feb 2010If you haven’t heard already through our many facebook events and status updates, my band Thomas and The Skank Engines are on tour! We are using our spring break this semester to play a lot of shows in Pennsylvania. Tonight was our first night out on the road. Our destination was a small venue in Bloomsburg, PA. A few bands opened for us (Kandosii was awesome), and we played our set which went over very well. Our EP was flying off the shelf like hot cakes at that gig, it was a really awesome feeling. After packing up our cars and vans, we headed out for bari sax player Jamie’s house, where I am currently writing this post up. It was a very awesome start to our tour. Our next show isn’t for a few days so I am planning on stopping home since its only about an hour away. The More Waves than you Know What to Do With tour will continue this Wednesday when we play in Reading, PA. Make sure to check us out if you’re in the area.
As the week goes on I’ll continue to update my blog and hopefully I will have a few pictures up. Peace, love, and unity!
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- Tags: TaTSkE, tour
New MiTiDo release: Alpha EP
15 Dec 2009Hello people. I’ve released more of my music onto the internet scene. So far I’ve put it out on Waffles, it will be up on this website soon, and I plan on using a few more torrent sites, as that’s my preferred release method (besides an actual physical CD). But I digress…
It’s a MiTiDo release. It’s not anything like my last MiTiDo release, however. Instead of focusing on the Kaossilator, I actually went the squarepushing method this time, and these are all precise, programmed songs I was working on this semester. As there are only 5 songs, I figured it made a nice EP. Each song has a bit of character and isn’t really anything like the song before it. If you get a chance, check it out!
For more of my releases, see the “Music” page, by clicking the tab closer to the top of the page.
What happened to you, Radioshack?
In: Uncategorized
27 Nov 2009I recall a time where I could walk into Radioshack and buy electronics components and other miscellaneous electronics things (sometimes audio gear, which I’m cool with). But now, it seems like all you have going for you are actual radios, remote-controlled cars and aircraft, and some bastardized attempt to get into the cell phone business. So again, I ask, what happened to you?
This post stems from my disgust after seeing a Radioshack commercial which looks like it was put together by a 16 year old high school drop out.
Someone wrote an article about me
10 Aug 2009A quick thanks to the guys at Zero Paid for writing about my article on my music being on BitTorrent now. I’d like to add to any readers who may have come my way that soon I am putting my releases on public BitTorrent trackers as well. And a quick warning that my music is kind of odd 
Also, has anyone seen the Nova Song Records page I put up? It’s a good way to follow all my releases, because I don’t always release under my name, and I like to organize things. That page is the best way to keep up to date with the material I may have created but never released. Can you say “rarities”?
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About Me
My name is Keith Novak, and I am a percussionist/songwriter/audio engineer/web designer/avid video game player. I am currently studying Music Recording Technology at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA, and if everything goes according to plan, I will graduate in the spring of 2012.
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- John Doe: I'd suggest talking to staff on the tracker and having it officially released. You'd get a front pag [...]
- sonoro: give me a link to a public album or target tracker for more people to hear .. so you can put in t [...]
- Sam I Am: " I hope my fans will mature with me so that when I start releasing music that I only want to charge [...]
- Zeroblitzt: Thank you for that, Sam I Am. I understand that this should be a two way street (I make music, peopl [...]
- Artist Puts Album on Waffles.fm to Get “More Exposure”: [...] I wanted to get some more exposure for some of my music,” he writes on his blog. “ [...]
- Thomas and the Skank Engines Tour: Day Six
- Thomas and the Skank Engines Tour: Day One
- New MiTiDo release: Alpha EP
- What happened to you, Radioshack?
- Someone wrote an article about me
- Sharing my music on BitTorrent
- My trip to Michigan
- Electronics, a new summer hobby
- How I record drums at home
- New Website (again)