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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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Additional Halloween Mixes

Obviously I recommend you listen and enjoy my latest Halloween mix but there's plenty more where that came from out in the wild Internet world. Here are a few additional mixes I've encountered that will continue to make the spookiest of days even spookier.
  • Black: Black, Black! Black& Black? - a dark hip hop mix from one of the best, Brian Gossett.
  • Vintage Obscura Halloween Mix 2013 - you know those phenomenal Vintage Obscura mixes that emerge every year from the Summer Mix Series? Yea well, they keep going all year round and you get amazing gems like this Halloween mix. Further discussion on it can be found here.
  • Aquarium Drunkard: Trick or Treat Volume 9 - seems as though Aquarium Drunkard and I started making these mixes around the same time, as it is their ninth volume as well. There's nothing but music from 1958-1977 in their tracklisting and that's a good thing.
  • Ryan Ike Halloween Mix - a mish-mash of videogame music, original spooky film music and other miscellaneous microjams. Also, the writeups are hilarious.
That should be more than enough Halloween music to satisfy.. at least until next year.
Wed. October 30th, 2013, 8:21am

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