Surprise! Over the weekend I shot a music video. Watch the official music video for Quiksand now on my YouTube Channel! About the Video On Saturday April 30th I went over to the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre to fulfil a goal I’d never attempted before. I grabbed my acoustic guitar and set out to perform a full acoustic set for anyone who happened to be heading … Continue reading Jaimee Jakobczak Release: Quiksand Official Music Video
If you’re into livestreams of girls in their bedroom putting together Jimmy Eat World covers from scratch then you’re in luck! I’d been meaning to get this all going for some time now but for whatever reason it’s taken me months to get to a point where I feel comfortable enough to be doing this. I already trialed this out last week and I’ve been … Continue reading Jaimee Eat World Format Change – Livestreams!
Today’s a super exciting release day because it’s the first in the new format, which is actually the original format idea it just took a little longer than I anticipated to get myself to this point where I sort of was able to get myself and this project organized. Earlier this week I began the tracking for “Cut” off of the Invented record but I … Continue reading Jaimee Eat World Release: Cut
Happy Sunday! When I covered this song last year acoustically I knew I had to kick it up a few notches with a full band recording, which is exactly what I spent my day yesterday doing. Hope ya like it! First, check out the original written by Eric Bachmann of Crooked Fingers: Now, here’s me: If you haven’t heard it yet, of course you’ll also … Continue reading Jaimee Eat World Release: Call To Love
When I first set out to track A Quiet Place To Scream, I did so in a way that I always intended to go back and re-track things and show as much of the process as possible. I had three goals in mind when I did this: see how far I could get without spending hardly any money, show newcomer songwriters/rock producers some of the … Continue reading The Making of The Clearing: Part 1
Today I’m pretty stoked to share with you all the first release exclusive to crookedforest.ca – Blister. Press play to list to it now! (This track was previously released under the Crooked Forest band name but now lives on as an early Neither Could Dylan cut 😉 Lyrics I open my mouth and my teeth turn on my tongueand now I’m bleeding straight from my … Continue reading New Music Release: Blister
This week I posed a few questions over to instrumentalist music producer and head of Toronto-Psychadelic Rock outfit Halo Vair whose upcoming home-recorded EP “Definition” is due out on December 12th 2021. We get into Victor Zohni’s recording rig, the frustrations with home-recording an independent artist like himself encounters, influential artists and some words of advice for those embarking on their own self-produced releases. Listen … Continue reading Spotlight On: Halo Vair
Today we get into the reproduction of Jimmy Eat World’s “Appreciation” as the first cover we’re doing off of the “Damage” record. Check out the original recording by Jimmy Eat World: Now check out the cover: The Process I started working on this one late one day (late for me, anyway, as far as this type of thing generally goes), and was initially going to … Continue reading Jaimee Eat World: Appreciation
Got a chance to chat with Menno and Jeremy of Silas Fury recently to talk about their album “Frontier” and the video-concept experience that accompanies it. We get into some stand-out moments from collaborating on the record, their must-haves in the studio for their songwriting process, and then we get a little weird talking about alien lifeforms and other spacey-stuff in this in depth interview. … Continue reading Spotlight On: Silas Fury
ICYMI, last week I chatted a bit about recording, new releases, and what’s coming out next with Indie Shark. Check it out now at the link below: Indie Shark Music Magazine Interview with Crooked Forest And if you haven’t caught it yet, check out the music video for “Driveway” off of Jestem Kazywym Lasem below! Pre-Save the EP now on Spotify; it goes live on … Continue reading Interview Alert: Indie Shark
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