WHITE LIES

Hey peeps!
(You know you're my peeps, right? You so totally are.)

As usual I try to amend my huge silence with another song. It's a decent enough concept but if you want more words I will give you more words. Just holler back.




The new song is a rock'n'roll-song, as I promised in my last newsletter, and it probably takes more after White Stripes and old 70s bluesrock than anything I've done before. It was recorded and written within the space of about two hours.
I've had the chord progression for the verse in my head for awhile (that B-A-E, thing with a high E every 8th bar) but that was about it.
It's very gratifying to come into production with a half-finished song. I don't know how many songs I've tossed simply because I can't get the sound in my head out into the real world but those expectations, naturally, aren't there with half-finished material. It feels more free in a way.


Well, hey, we're getting to be a real little gathering on No1music/Uh-huh, Radio! I'm only 22 peeps away from 1,000!

If you have Facebook please add me there. It's free and you get information much quicker than here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Uh-huh-Radio/131449800199180?ref=ts

Did you know Uh-huh, Radios cover of "When you were young" by The Killers played on Coverville this week?
Check it out, awesome podcast!
http://coverville.com/archives/podcast/coverville-704-i-keep-on-thinking-bout-you-sister-indie-hodgepodge-surprise/

David Ford - I'm alright now

I listen to this song a lot. Like.. A LOT. There are phrases in it that just stick with me and whenever I'm in a foul mood I scroll through to this song and it cheers me up.
For example:
"Everybody wades through the same coloured shit but it doesn't drag everyone down"
or
"Like all these drugs they seem to promise you the earth and then they don't keep you warm in the night"

So here's to you David Ford, for picking me up. I'm alright now.

Ramblers. Read this.

Hello ramblers!

The summer has so far been a rage of no-updates and for this I humbly apologize. Were it up to me I'd have a new song out every week but I'm working on a Macintosh that predates the hatch-opening on Lost. So it's definitely nearing it's end of days, retirement and subsequent jealousy of the hot, new, next thing I'll invest in this fall.

Meanwhile here's some short updates, links and coy, mysterious teasers for the future:

I currently reside all over the web. I have spread myself out like the roman empire (or a melted chunk of cheese if you prefer that analogy) and even I can hardly remember all the communitys I occupy.
But here's the cliffnotes:

FACEBOOK:
When updates happen they happen on Facebook first. It's just easy that way. So if you want me at your fingertips this is where you should go:
http://www.facebook.com/uhhuhradio#!/pages/Uh-huh-Radio/131449800199180?ref=ts

MYSPACE:
It seems kinda dead to me but of course I'm there.
http://myspace.com/uhhuhradio

SNOWFISH:
This is a good place to go and vote for me if you feel like it. They have giveaways for musical equipment so if you want to show your support this would be the equivalent of giving an alcoholic hobo a sandwich. For some reason I operate under my given name here. I don't really know why.
http://snowfish.com/jackwallsten/

BANDCAMP:
If you want to carry my music around with you you can always download it for free on Bandcamp:
http://uhhuhradio.bandcamp.com/

BLOG:
This place is dead right now. Or atleast in hibernation. But I have some plans for it for this fall. Hint: Video. Further hint: live videos.

That's all for now,

Thanks for listening and thanks for comments and feedback you send me on all my different sites. It's bread and butter for my ego and you can't rock'n'roll without a well-fed ego :)

Holler out!

//Jack

I'm putting great songs in a great big pile.

I'm putting that pile on a poorly balanced box of crates and wait for it all to come crashing down on me. And then maybe I'll make something.

20 coked-up bouncers

New single!

Everything about this song is true. Check out the lyrics on http://uhhuhradio.bandcamp.com

Me for free!

This month only! Maybe. I don't know. But for awhile anyway you can download both of my releases for free on bandcamp. Here's the link!

http://uhhuhradio.bandcamp.com

Make strange Love & then War.

SINCERE apologies for the appalling lack of updates recently.
But here it is! The completed 2nd EP: "Make strange Love & then War" and boy, lemme tell ya, it's a doozy. Here's a short breakdown of the tracks:

Track 1: "54 days since I wrote something":
The title gives it away but I've had a bad couple of months behind me, trying to push anything down on paper and getting, well jack-shit basically. So this is me being cathartic, nagging a bit and ultimately telling Caroline (a writer-friend from Mackay, Australia) that I can't do it alone anymore.

Track 2: "Bukowski's "Women":
I did a lengthy piece on this song on my blog so I'll just say two things: Thing One: Have you read "Bukowski's "Women"? If not read it. Thing Two: Have you been to Berlin? If not go. Gogo.

Track 3: "Girls named Jezebel":
I wrote this song a few years back on the fly inspired by things that happened with previous girlfriends, just 10 minutes of rambling out words and blaming a girl from the bible (and ultimately everone else).
This song and the next one ("In the candlelight") are both pretty much recorded live-in-studio to maintain spontaneity.

Track 4: "In the candlelight"
It's a lovesong, that's all.

Track 5: "Kids, don't die bored"
It's almost hiphop and I suppose between this song and "Lily Allen" on the previous record I've flirted with that genre more than once. But I just love it when there's too many words in a song to simply sing it and with that kind of flow you can't rely in just a few words to convey a feeling. You have to tell a story or (in this case) preach a little. So I preach here and the ultimate message is: don't stop moving, at least not until you know that you're in a place where you're ready to make roots.

This CD has a slow vibe to it, there's a lot of acoustics and downright depressing lyrics (although I've tried to sprinkle some optimism throughout). The next record will be a response to this, no doubt about it. It'll be bigger, louder and faster.

Uh-huh, Radio will take a short break now (musically), possibly over the summer and when I come back I guarantee (full-on, 100% refund) that the next album will be rock'n'roll in attitude, tones and rhytm. Big guitars, cocky productions and guests galore. Stay tuned for that and have a great summer! Unless of course you're aussies and in that case have a really awesome mild winter!

//Signing out, your friendly, in-some-cases neighbourhoodly Uh-huh, Radio



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