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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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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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Nightblonde interview

Really enjoying this Nightblonde interview with frontman Ryan Breegle in which he explains a bit of background about the band and their intentional influences. This bit covers just about everything in perfect summation:
Lyrically, we are fascinated with 20th century authors who wrote about the future as they saw it, usually a warning for society to change its ways before the world destroys itself. And I don't know if anyone really listened. Writers like Ray Bradbury, Anthony Burgess, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, many others - they foresaw things that have become reality for us today. Surveillance, genetic testing, reliance on technology, basic human rights being threatened, the list goes on. Looking at the future through the lens of the past is a big theme for us.

Musically, the songwriting of Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine; you could strip away the effects and you still have very well crafted songs. We love the hypnotic repetition of Neu!, which went on to be furthered by Stereolab. We are very moved by the harmonies of lots of 1960's groups, The Free Design, Mamas and The Papas, The Byrds, Crosby Stills, Nash and Young. I also love incorporating strange sounds into the songs, very Radiophonic Workshop or like the French band Air would always do. And we adore reverb and delay.

But design and image are also such an important part of what we do. It is important for us to have a uniform look on stage. Megan works very hard to have all our publicity threaded with a specific Orwellian voice. And Jill came up with the cover art for our debut record Numbers using dots and dashes from Morse code which ended up having a very striking Factory Records / Peter Saville look to it.
The debut album Numbers will be available for streaming on June 3rd and their beautiful limited edition vinyl will start shipping the same day.
Wed. June 1st, 2016, 5:31am

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