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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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Track By Track: Forget Cassettes – Salt

I believe this is what you might call synergy. I run a podcast called We Own This Town: Music that highlights local Nashville music. I also run a small indie label called yk Records that, primarily, releases music from Nashville based artists. The latest episode of WOTT Music is a lengthy interview with one of my yk Records artists discussing a very personally influential record released in 2006; and re-issued by yk in 2022.
Forget Cassettes was formed in the early 2000's and I've been an ardent follower since the very first show (literally!). The sophomore album Salt was never issued on vinyl until this year when yk released it and I couldn't be more happy to help them celebrate the sixteen year anniversary.

It was a treat to sit down with Beth Cameron, Jay Leo Phillips and Aaron Ford to discuss how the album came together. They were kind enough to spend a length amount of time going over each track, discussing what they remember about the writing, recording and overall evolutionary process of the whole thing.

I've always wanted the label and the podcast to serve as a bit of historical documentation for the local music scene that I enjoy so much. With this particular episode, I think I checked both boxes quite well.

You can listen to the episode in the embed above, over on the WOTT site, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you prefer. I hope you'll give both the album and the podcast a listen.
Fri. November 4th, 2022, 10:04am

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