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An internet waystation.

it me - michael eades

👋 Hi, I'm Michael Eades; a long time Internet dweller, design dabbler, dangerously amateur developer, online social experimenter and frequent curator.

Currently working as VP of Product at Smarter Apps. I also keep the lights on at a boutique record label called yk records, a podcast network called We Own This Town and a t-shirt shop called Nashville Galaxy. Previously, I built things for Vimeo OTT, VHX, KNI and Spongebath Records.

This site is an archive of ephemera I find entertaining; tweets, videos, random links, galleries of images.

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find me elsewhere

 

contact

Reach out via threads or good ole email if you have anything to discuss. I do my best to reply in a timely manner.

for the record: "yewknee" is a nonsensical word with no literal meaning but a unsurprisingly nerdy etymology. It is pronounced, "yoo • knee."

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ongoing projects

yk Records →
started in 2009 as a conduit for music that friends had no plans on releasing. now it's a full fledged boutique label focused on releasing quality music from a variety of styles. you know, like a label does. Here's a sampler on Soundcloud and a different one on Spotify. Options.

We Own This Town →
Originally a Nashville area music blog, this site has grown into a full blown podcast network as of 2018. It's an attempt to bring together creative folks about a variety of interesting topics.

I host this show all about Nashville local music outside the expectations of the city. I'm biased but all the shows are good.

Nashville Galaxy →
An online t-shirt shop featuring beloved and defunct Nashville area businesses. Very niche audience on this one but I tend to think niche is good.

some noteworthy other things

Chris Gaines: The Podcast →
published along with co-host Ashley Spurgeon; a limited series podcast that takes an absurdly researched deep dive into the time that Garth Brooks took on a fictional personality named Chris Gaines.

Garth Brooks Chris Gaines Countdown →
to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the time Garth Brooks took on the fictional personality Chris Gaines and appeared on Saturday Night Live in character, I GIF'ed the entire episode. It's a lot of GIFs; please use them.

Whiskerino →
a social network built around communal beard growing for four months. yes, it was as weird as it sounds but equally fascinating and enjoyable.

Moustache May →
an offshoot of the beard growing contest mentioned above. equal amounts of oddball fun but only a month long.

Summer Mix Series →
before all music was streaming everywhere, Internet music fans would swap zip files of music. it was truly a strange and wonderful time.

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2016 Review: Jay Leo Phillips

This is part of a 2016 Year in Review of yk Records releases... a healthy reminder to catch-up if you don't know them already.

My initial familiarity with Jay Leo Phillips came from seeing his band Apollo Up! play around Nashville in the mid-2000's and thinking they were, hands down, the best band the city had to offer. Jay eventually joined Forget Cassettes and then And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead and then moved to Germany for a few years. I assumed I wouldn't ever get to hear much new from him after that.

A few years past and Jay moved back to Nashville and we started discussed putting out a solo record from him. After toiling over it for some time, the results are One Million, One Million, One Million, an album of songs composed, performed and recorded entirely by Jay. It's available on grey vinyl and streaming all over.
The album is, clearly, a departure from anything Jay has done previously; both in terms of the production style and the musicality of the thing. It's a rock record; complete with rock record level energies, building tensions, chanting refrains and plenty of danceable bits but it feels like the strange cousin of your standard rock record. There's lots of keyboards, programmed drums and a sparse grit on everything that keeps you from officially filing it under Rock. I can't explain it and I'm happy about that.
Fri. December 23rd, 2016, 5:55am

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