Hope you like them.

LSD Music by knova

Airplane Ride by knova

BugZapper by knova

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"?

Why this is a cool idea: I get exposure. People get free music. BitTorrent can be used as a legal means to distribute my music, as it seems to get a lot of wrap as a piracy-only tool. Also, I used my "record label" (Nova Song) in the release, starting up a small catalogue list inside the torrent. I basically just listed all albums released under Nova Song in order of release and gave locations for their purchase/download. So if I do manage to get a fan out of any of the leechers, they can follow up my works with similar things I've worked on.

I'm excited, and its good to see that in the first 30 minutes of putting up my torrent, 11 or 12 people downloaded it. I guess people just like their free music.

Bonnaroo, which I attended this year, was awesome because everyone is there for the same reason. This sounds pretty obvious, but if you think about it, anyone can just go to a concert. However, Bonnaroo is more than a concert, it's an experience. Four days of camping out in the hot Tennessee sun (and the harsh Tennessee rain), getting close to no sleep, going to the bathroom in shitty (no pun intended) port-a-potties. I think there's more of a community feeling there as opposed to at other concerts, if only because of the time factor. You also get more of a diversity, since many people come from great distances to attend.

My experience was pretty much sans-assholes who tried to ruin other peoples' fun. There were a few people here and there (though I believe they were drunk or strung out on some kind of drug) who got in our faces about not "feeling" the music (I guess sitting and enjoying the music just isn't acceptable when you're tripping on acid or something), but overall people were nice. I mean, one day I was wearing one of my Woot.com T-shirts and someone commented that he had the same shirt at home and I was awesome for wearing it. That in itself is just plain awesome.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish (2 shows), Nine Inch Nails, Animal Collective, Beastie Boys, Ben Harper and the Relentless 7, The Mars Volta, Erykah Badu, Kaki King, Portugal. The Man, Bela Fleck, Girl Talk, and MGMT.

I have a good collection of pictures from the ordeal on my hard drive and on Facebook, and I'm considering finding my Photobucket/Flickr account credentials again and uploading them for the general public (though I'm fairly certain you can view them on my Facebook Profile here).

-1 Presonus Firestudio Project (an 8 channel Firewire recording interface)
-1 Shure SM57 mic
-2 Studio Projects B1 mics
-2 new boom mic stands
-1 new kick drum mic stand
-3 20' Monster XLR cables

Thus, I now dub my garage Studio N, and I've cleared off some nice shelf space for all my new (and old) equipment. I haven't really started digging in with the new stuff, just a quick trial run, but it's going to be a fun summer.

Going back to college after a short Easter break. One month left and I'm done with my first year. Looking forward to next semester even more, however.