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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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The We Own This Town Eight Hour 2022 Celebration

Throughout a calendar year, I constantly compile new releases from the Nashville music scene and share them on my podcast - We Own This Town: Music. It's a passion project that results in hundreds of songs for a given year. It's not everything released but it's a healthy amount.

At the end of every year I pick through all those tracks and make my own "Highly Enjoyed" playlist. It's subjective, of course, but it's a great compilation of songs. Every year the playlist is incredibly long but I just randomly pick 20 tracks and turn that into a "selective retrospective" episode for the show. But not this year...

This year I decided, why not put the entire playlist into one episode? Who says you can't have an eight hour podcast episode? Sure, the likelihood of anyone actually listening to the entire thing is slim to say the least but the end result will be a pretty robust document of the year's music. So, that's what I did.

The Eight Hour 2022 Celebration is exactly that. Eight hours of local Nashville music all compiled into one episode of a podcast. I chunked it out into hour segments and sequenced everything thematically. It's a good listen if I do say so myself.

It's not holistic as I can't physically hear everything released in a calendar year but it's a solid offering. I'm proud of it... even if I do recognize that eight hours is absolutely absurd.
Thu. December 29th, 2022, 2:00pm

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