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First repair I ever did was a cracked screen (dropped at a dance party, kids these days love the Black Eyed Peas????)- Apple wanted some $800 to fix it, so I decided to fix myself. Last week I decided it was time to upgrade the hard drive, and I am so glad I did- it is working just like new. And today I took my power supply apart because it was doing this, I had gone to the Apple store in NY when I was there over xmas and the genius said it was the wrong end fraying and because it was a power adapter from Japan it was not covered… Well today before the hazard got any worse I took some chisels, a hammer, soldering supplies and duct tape to fix it. The key here was the chisels- got the molded plastic apart in about 30 seconds.

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http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/26/2740981/debate-spotify-mog-rdio-kill-save-music-industry

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Beautiful Day at the Dog Park from Kelsey Wynns on Vimeo.

Earlier today I was thinking how cool it’d be to have a  doga class in the area, but what we really need is a dog park.

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Life and the music business have changed. People definitely seem to go out to see live music less than they used to, in general. I have to include myself in that category as well. It is becoming kinda rare to have an out of town band or musician pass through our neck of the woods the way they used to a few years ago. We used to work doing live sound here in MT sometimes as much as 4 times a week in the “good old days.” I do hope people start to remember how important it is to get out and experience real, live music played by real musicians again, even if they aren’t well known. People still pack the bars for music some nights, but it seems there are a lot of nights where there is a band and it is totally dead. There was a band from Reno at the Northern this week that was supposedly pretty good and nobody there to see them.

Until they do, it is bittersweet, but I am happy to say that there are a ton of opportunities awaiting the music creators of the world licensing music to film, tv, video games, ringtones, youtube videos and I’m still not sure how I feel about it, but commercials as well.

I’ll write more about it as I delve into it more deeply, but there are a bunch of music libraries out there that I am currently researching and submitting to. I really like this site for learning more if anybody else out there in cyberland is reading this and curious about it. http://www.musiclibraryreport.com/

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I think if Greg and I had some children we would make a whole lot more videos.

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Two things you should know-

1. I have hard time keeping goals with a definite time stamp.
2. I haven’t ever written an entire song.

But why let that keep me from it? For years of being on the technical side of the recording process I think I can pull this off. I have had this fear that when I do go into the studio I’d become this crazy mess of ungraspable  ideas. And that it’d take years to attain what I set out to capture. So this project will help me out with the timeline. And about writing an entire song…

I know Greg Grant is also going to sign up, so we will have a bunch of new songs, behind the scenes videos and blog posts about the process.

So here is to the success of completing !!

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Hello everyone out there connected to the inter-web!

Linda here from Altered State Records. It is sixteen days after the New Year and I’m finally getting into the swing of things. The Altered State Records / ASR Music website has been completely overhauled, entirely hand-coded to the latest web standard  of HTML 5. And while I was doing my digital upkeep – I’ve decided to start all over on the Altered State Records blog, by completely deleting my WordPress db tables  and updated to the latest version of the greatest blogging software ever! (NOTE: I was looking for the easiest way to start all over in WordPress without having to delete all my files, themes and plugins. So I decided to just see what would happen if I erased my database tables that were associated with wp and to my luck everything went well.)

So if you are are here looking for a post prior to January 2012, I am sorry to say that it is no longer located here. It is possible that it is somewhere out there on the “Internet”, but…….

Hopefully we will keep this blog going all year. I want to get Greg Grant to input here on his music and what he is working on. There should be some really interesting posts about d.i.y. music licensing, music publishing, self-promotion, booking and anything to do with being a full-time musician.

So to keep in-touch sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of any page of our website or check out our NEW Facebook or Twitter pages.

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