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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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Welles - The Poor

My lovely wife was showed me this delightful TikTok from animator Bug Grotto set to a cute little song by Welles. The name rung a bell - I recalled an artist of the same name but with a different style (plugged in guitars, psychedelic and big production). Turns out, it's the same artist and Jesse Welles is known to be a bit of a chameleon - performing under variations of his own name, as Jeh Sea Wells and in the bands Dead Indian and Cosmic-American.

Taking a bit of a deeper dive into the @hellswells Youtube channel, we find a different looking Welles and much more stripped down performances. I'm particularly keen on "The Poor" - drenched in sarcasm and satire, delivered in a minimal folk diddy.

His newly discovered popularity doing stripped down folk songs like "Bugs" is surprising but not unearned; he's clearly a prolific songwriter. I'll keep an ear out for whatever future version of Welles emerges; they all seem intriguing.
Fri. September 13th, 2024, 8:39am

Comments

jon / Sep 20th 2024, 6:18 AM
I just discovered this guy and Im delighted to know there are several versions of him