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Deerpath is in

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 23:24:00 +0000

Limited Edition 12", 180 gram vinyl with DOWNLOAD CARD Now available !!!! 16 original tunes by pop cosmonaut and ecstatic tunesmith, Adam Goldman. Gatefold design with full-color panels by Cary Porter. Ready to ship. You can hear part of the album here.

(front cover)

This item is ONLY available through Totallypunk at this time.

Also available on Compact Disc (sleeve design with different artwork):

For more information, please check out the official Class M Planets site.

Twinklelingus in golden digital

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:56:00 +0000

Twinklelingus is now available at all sorts of download and streaming outposts. No longer black market only!

A song from "Deerpath"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 01:12:00 +0000

This is the song, 'Aquarius' from the now nearly totally finished LP by Class M Planets. The video is a little odyssey through the album artwork as well to give you a sense of place. That's not me singing though, in case you're wondering. It's Chelsea Smith. Isn't she great?

This new album is called "deerpath" and it's going to be released as a gate fold vinyl lp with a download code. The vinyl will also likely come with another Class M Planets album called, "The One Commandments" as a bonus feature. This will be a download code label on the backside of a full-color insert that is another album cover by Cary Porter.

The entire thing will will contain 16 songs. I think there's only one more song to mix and then... DONE!

love,

Adam

Leaked stills

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:32:00 +0000

Here are a few stills from a new Class M Planets video! More details about that later....

Rainstick Cowbell CD Release Show!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 30 May 2013 20:47:00 +0000

Ahhh, I've played with Scott from Rainstick Cowbell several times over the last few years and I've known him since his days in Creepy Old Trucks. He's quite a performer, AND: This event is his cd release party. Rainstick Cowbell the new wave of punk band in a box. One man with an acoustic guitar who's always about to go supernova. His songs are beautiful, though. Very melodic and definately from a tradition that Elliott Smith came from. Again, another punk rocker with an acoustic guitar. Having been the opening act for numerous punk and metal bands as an acoustic performer, I can tell you that the solo mission is greater in its rawness and directness than the loud bombast. Standing up there all vulnerable is far more bad-ass. Sorry, that's just how it is.. Saturday June 8th here in Portland. Come on down.

-adam

Couch by Couchwest Fest 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:19:00 +0000

Class M Planets performs "Kind Of" live in the studio for Couch by Couchwest 2013.

THE BEVIS FROND / thebrotheregg split 7"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:03:00 +0000

Very exciting news! The new split 7" singles are in! For those of you know me, you probably know my great love for the group THE BEVIS FROND from England. The group has issued many albums over the years and, in my opinion, embodies everything that is great and engaging about music. Their songs are intelligent, introspective, charming, and catchy, and Nick Saloman is one of the finest songwriters I have ever heard. No kidding. Nick was kind enough to donate one of his unreleased songs for this split record and now the results are in! This record comes with the beautiful cover painting from Chuck Bloom and there's even a download card enclosed. This is a limited edition so get one while it's hot! -adam

Tracks:

"After You" Bevis Frond (UK)
"Murky Up the Lagoon" thebrotheregg (USA)

33 RPM

* For a complete collection of The Bevis Frond online catalog click: here

"It's Spreading" : Guignolfest 2012 Halloween short film

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:40:00 +0000

We made a little Halloween short film for your enjoyment. Hope you like it !!

Portland

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:08:00 +0000

Jade Lounge show Friday August 24th in Portland

Deer Path

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:09:00 +0000

Here is a quick image from the new Class M Planets LP, "Deer Path". As you can plainly see, more visionary artwork from Cary Porter to adorn a whole new catalog of daring songs from the Terraformed mind of Adam Goldman. The release date for this is currently unknown but it might be late 2012/early 2013. Vinyl/digital download.

There's still some copies left of the cd/ep... yum!: Click here

Some New Videos

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:24:00 +0000

Here are TWO videos that we made right here at the Tree Fort Lounge with one of Portland's most rockin' rock duos. This ain't no rehearsal, it's the real thing !

Tree Fort Lounge

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:18:00 +0000

Twinklelingus album is now here !

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:21:00 +0000

Whoah, 2012 is taking off over here at Dandelion Wine. First the new Class M Planets CD and now this:

The New Twinklelingus video! Totally weird awesome. Accompanies the new full-length album available for listen/digital download through bandcamp. See Below:

The new album can now be downloaded on any number of formats at the Twinklelingus site. This is an epic work. Purchase a copy, support the awesome power of Twinklelingus!

72 Hour Horror Movie Fest !!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:43:00 +0000

Happy Halloween! Here's a short splatter film that we made in 72 hours in Portland. Let me know what you think!

Candy apples and razor blades

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:05:00 +0000

Hey I should have posted this on Halloween because strangely enough, that's when the mix got finished. I was fortunate on that day (or rather the Saturday right before) to go to the last 21+ show at Satyricon with Pierced Arrows, the Obituaries, and Napalm Beach (the picture above is my half-assed costume.) The Pube and the Corpse, as our new song is titled, is the first done mix of the Misfits project. I know, the singing doesn't sound like Danzig and whatnot which is fine. I got to get my reggae ass off the couch to channel the "violent world". I got some good compliments about this though and the songwriting part of channeling this particular energy is fun fun fun. Also, it's great working with such amazing people to put these together. In this case, Jairus Smith wrote and plays the guitar parts, Sam Ross beats his bass up pretty good, and Jody Lasky does the drums. Jody also plays in Broken Bodies, a Misfits cover band. If you're interested in reading the rant about the Misfits project, please go here.

Anyhow here is The Pube and the Corpse. Enjoy!

In-store

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:54:00 +0000

Free acoustic In-store this Sunday! 5pm
Hoping to have a scheduled record release fiesta in the upcoming months. Check this space for details!

Summer Events

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:22:00 +0000

A couple of Portland acoustic events on the horizon. Very excited to be interacting with the community as I typically feel like a Martian observer with English as a second language. Nice, casual acoustic events for the summer. Also exciting in the world of Class M Planets is the announcement of a new e.p. that will emerge shortly in the format of Compact Disc and digital downloads (of course!). This item is at the pressing plant as I write this which is very exciting. Crafted with love from myself and several of my close friends, the debut something from Class M Planets is surely a virgin sacrifice of the highest order.

If you're in the Portland area this summer, there are a few events on the horizon (all casual in nature) starting with this Friday's happy hour event at the Alberta St. Pub (shown in the flyer above). Here are some other upcoming dates of note.

*Wednesday, July 07, 2010 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Miss Delta
3950 N Mississippi Ave
Portland Oregon

*Saturday, July 24, 2010 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Where: Etho’s Music Center
Broadcast on Comcast Channel 22 (Live)

*Friday, September 10, 2010 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Where: Coffee Cottage
808 E Hancock St
Newberg OR 97132

Portland M Event 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 16 May 2010 23:27:00 +0000

Song Machine

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:00:00 +0000

New Class M Planets song: Freak of Illuminary.

Freak of Illuminary by TotallyPunk.com

Bone River - Twinklelingus

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:03:00 +0000

Woah, brand new Twinklelingus song hot off the presses ! "Bone River" is the title. We posted this one to SoundCloud for now.

Twinklelingus by TotallyPunk.com

Class M Planets photos Live @ Plan B 2/11/09

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:23:00 +0000

More Class M Planets photos from Vaughn Zeitzwolfe

Envelope Peasant

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:57:00 +0000

I've been recording with Sean of Envelope Peasant since 2004 or so, working toward the completion of his pop album. I think that over this time, we've amassed some twenty plus songs. Today I am sitting here at Dig Studio and we're starting to work the first mix of this huge batch, a song called "Better Listener". This is very exciting. I know Sean is excited. Hopefully that excitement will come through in the mix.

Twenty-some songs? Thus far, this album, or double album, or maxi-ep should be pretty all-over-the-map, production wise, personnel wise, and stylistically. The songs are certainly compelling to work with and we've been having a great time with it. I'm not sure entirely how to describe the Envelope Peasant in terms of sound. Sean is a songwriter so there's that component; songs are a definite factor. Hooks are clearly another factor. Instrumentation. There's like an indie rock Americana thing with a psychic emotional lyrical content for sure. Sean has a huge canon of work between his various bands and so his voice is unique and established as it's own thing.

Sean writes songs for Harvester and Dearest, Crown. He was once in The Vertels back in California and the Envelope Peasant is his solo identity, I guess. This project has, as I said, been going on since 2004 or so and part of the reason is because Sean moved from Portland back to Chico, California a few years back. Recently, the fire has been lit and it's all happening, the album is getting finished. Equilibrium of the universe can once again be restored. Class M Planets will perform with the Envelope Peasant Saturday March 13th in Chico, CA at cafe Flo.

The Envelope Peasant Link

Class M Planets

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:41:00 +0000

Recently, I have found privilege in a life of music and constant merriment here in beautiful Portland, Oregon. However, despite its utopian charm, such indulgence has not been without its challenges: Depression, doubt, confusion, loneliness; all the things that fuel the songwriting fire for sure like an ancient sacrifice ritual over an angry volcano. It also goes by another name and a different character known as unemployment and for someone like me, not working the grind is an opportunity for shamanistic immersion into the netherworlds of chord configurations, daydreams, and exorcisms.

Class M Planets is the newest offspring of this prolific and fruitful time. For years I have been playing a random smattering of acoustic gigs as an active incarnation of thebrotheregg big band, perhaps as a way of getting the songs out there still by whatever means necessary when the big band could not make the trip (or the club could not afford our exorbitant fees!) Recently, I have decided to make a different thing of playing acoustically, trying to get a foothold on my own musical life to some degree. thebrotheregg has also recently become a well-oiled song factory and does not need as much of me. It has finally achieved effortless experimentality and constantly renewable vision as an organic pop group. Twinklelingus has re-emerged from whatever has survived the library of Alexandria, reinvigorated with Kenneth Cole post-Goth goodness and has asserted itself as a truthfully healthy and spirited endeavor. Today, as I write this, I am actually happy and everything makes sense. It’s a good time to put recent happenings into proper articulated perspective.

The new folk thing has been quite healing. It started this last decade with me latching to other tours and shows, riding the coat tails of great artists like Wow & Flutter, the Bevis Frond, Mary Lou Lord, the 1090 Club, Larry Yes, and VI Ft. Sloth. I got to travel abroad, and see places in this very country I would have never ventured to otherwise. As “thebrotheregg acoustic” I opened for punk bands, death metal groups, did Humane Society fundraisers, coffee shops. I remember the sound guy at Jay’s upstairs in Missoula, Montana was on hallucinogenic mushrooms while he was running sound and I was once offered $20 in Spokane, Washington to stop playing by some redneck. I also had to hitchhike in Wyoming at 5 A.M. (Yes, Triple A is not there when you need them.) In place of not making any sort of living doing this work, I look for payment in these other ways, finding satisfaction in free beer, gas money, making amazing personal connections, and having weird stories. Oh, and getting to step off this rock once in awhile and explore the physical and psychic universe isn’t bad either.

So, this summer I have two new songs so far that are folky “Class M Planets” songs. “Glossolalia” and “Heart Thing” are done and they will be their own thing with hopefully many more to come. Jairus from thebrotheregg has been on board as a second guitar, Casio keyboard, and other vocalist and he has been amazing to work with as usual. We constantly debate the uncertain world of creativity and inspiration along the many miles of hiking or gigging. Recently, Sam Ross has joined our ranks as well on cello and hopefully vocals and other noisemakers. I am quite excited to announce the manifestation of this project which was struggling to find its persona for the longest time. If you look at the www.classmplanets.com myspace thing, you will see a variety of electronic music and dreamy shoegazing that has lead up to the more acoustic manifestation. In fact, there is probably an entire album of this eclectic sonic buggery in the archives. These efforts were originally titled “Gomads” or “the Gomads” and it basically described whatever project I was working on. The video for “the Chase” was originally a Gomads experiment and that evolved into what later became the Buttertarts (see the side link and it will lead you there.)

Anyhow, recently transforming from thebrotheregg acoustic to Class M Planets is a fun step forward and these different musical identities are taking shape in a healthy and positive way. It gives me great pleasure to announce the existence of this new project even though I am a firm believer of the “Stop starting bands” mentality. I’ve had a lot of free time lately, watching Doctor Who, drinking beer, trying to pay the bills…. An immersion in music before a return to the practical life of civilization and labor for the betterment of community and country.

Please come out to see Class M Planets Friday December 4^th at Kelly’s Olympian in downtown Portland, Oregon.

thebrotheregg recording studio notes Part I.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:23:00 +0000

The weekend of August 22, 23. Very fortunate to spend the weekend at the fabulous DIG studios here in Portland. A great way to spend two solid days in doors while the summer weather is beautiful outside. Thebrotheregg recorded some eight songs very quickly and efficiently, but these songs are hardly done; they will be requiring all sorts of final singing, fancy guitars and general treatments, not to mention mixing.

We spent two days immersed in what we were doing and for me, it’s difficult to come back to any sort of a “normal” life afterwards. I didn’t expect that the world would still exist after this weekend. I try to put my 150% into this process of capturing hit songs to “tape” and such effort leaves one emotionally drained afterward. This is the immersion process. It’s very much like going into a sweat lodge and seeing visions. Given the summer temperature, the studio on the sixth floor was much like a sweaty sweat lodge. Hopefully in the process we realized visions of pop excellence.

Grilch

Recording this weekend was also an opportunity to work closely with thebrotheregg’s new bass player, Grilch (David). He had recently joined our ranks just as the bulk of new songs were being born into this world, so we are just now actualizing this new chemistry.

The story of how we connected with Grilch is actually quite amazing. One of the few miracles I would consider that we’ve experienced along the way. I answered an ad on Craigslist posted by someone who sounded like the music world’s obsession with handsome twenty year olds had put him out to pasture, and that he wanted experimental rock or something to that effect. The reply I received was something like, “Hey Adam, it’s me Dave.” Weird, it was Dave whom used to play with Kaitlyn ni Donovan and her other group, the High Violets. We shared a practice space with those two groups and he had been over numerous times for these projects. It was a strange coincidence that he should be posting this ad when he did and that I should be responding to it then as well. Needless to say, we set the wheel in motion and Dave’s been a great addition to thebrotheregg. He likes old Genesis, odd time signatures, and gutter humor. What a great fit! Anyhow, Dave was a great inspiration to work with in the studio. What an effortless, organic process capturing music can be when you have the right people to work with.

Additionally, Tofer and Jairus were in top form conjuring a perfect pop think tank of rhythmic assessment and guitar tone governance. Together, we worked through different arrangements with drums and bass in the spotlight. Everyone was quite articulate in communicating individual abstract envisionings of how the process should play itself out.

Well, insofar as how I tend to enjoy the process as much as I do, it seemed interesting to post a little something about recording in the studio again. It’s such a weird science of psychology in certain regards to convey this live music feeling using multi-track recording. The idea that individual instruments might not all have been recorded at the same time or even in the same place initially blew my mind the first time I learned about recording. This idea is one I’ve been known to preach, that one is deflowered when the veil of magic is lifted from the sound coming from the stereo. Casually listening, we hear a group performing and we tend to dismiss the music as live as it would be on stage. I’m just saying, the reality behind this live feel was the rude awakening I went through many years ago. Multi-tracking is about separation where every instrument and voice is given it’s own unique space, it is not just about putting a mic in the right place to capture a whole room full of musicians just right. In this fantasy stereo field, a classical guitar can drown out a loud drum kit. A quiet snare roll can be heard over a wall of guitar sludge. Whispering words can actually be heard and understood with maybe a nudge of the fader or with some processing. In the end though, we close our eyes and pretend we are wherever, listening to the band stick it to us.

The Fifth Member

One of the things you may often read about Syd Barrett and the original Pink Floyd was that they treated the recording studio as the fifth member of the band. They were likely not the first by any means, but as deliberate outsider artists they were identified as using the recording technology of the day as almost it’s very own instrument. I think that after all these years of listening to Piper at the Gates of Dawn, I tend to still return to it as a replenishing revitalizor because of this innovative interpretation of recording that was so freely utilized in the album’s creation. I think with thebrotheregg, we have always enjoyed the studio for its power to help re-invision and transform the music with all it’s filters, effects, and happy accidents, not to mention the blatant illusory fantasy world that a recording projects from our speakers in general.

Always up for some of the more odd quirky aspects of the process. The gear discussion alone doesn’t reach me; that’s a different facet of the science. I like the twangy guitars, the rough overdriven sounds, and the tape compression just as much as everyone else for sure. I’ve just been considering the psychology of listening lately, the suspension of disbelief we enjoy as music is read through stereo speakers. I just thought I’d say a few words about it is all. Thanks –a.

PDX Misfits Project

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:26:00 +0000

Well, what’s the manifesto on this subject? Perhaps to keep it short would be best. Overanalyzing rock ‘n roll never quite works for me, but sometimes it makes a bit of sense when read as a ‘process of discovery’, or perhaps as a rant.

This brief discussion is about The Misfits and for those of you who don’t know, the Misfits are a greatly celebrated punk band from the late ‘70s, mid ‘80s that defined a subgenre of rock known as Horror punk. Shit, I might need the Wikipedia article at hand to fill in some of the details. The quality of the Misfits that warrants their continued perseverance of legacy throughout the ages is not only their downright earworm sing-along perfection of pop, but also the strange and, I would argue, sincere substance that underlies every song ever published under their name. Singer and main visionary, Glenn Danzig’s obsession with the dark subject matter he writes about is downright honest.

Danzig went on to diversify his music after the aforementioned biblical incarnation of the Misfits, becoming more artful and maybe credibly musical in his later projects Samhain, and Danzig. That’s all fine and good; it’s not fair to expect anyone to be a one trick pony for all eternity. HOWEVER, in 1997 the rest of the Misfits decided to reform without him, and this time with a lucrative record deal (I’m guessing). Regardless of what I’ve ever felt about this, the threat of a new Misfits without Danzig inspired *an idea*. I would describe this idea as silly and maybe academic in the same way that writing about the Misfits in this particular way is both silly and maybe academic.

Contemplating these songs for a near lifetime, I have decided that there’s an unspoken formula to what the Misfits did back then. The cannon of Misfits songs have a simplicity about them and a mystery about the personnel that performed them. The unique stage appearance of the band and the subject matter of their songs were both very contained in a singular organized vision. The bizarre marriage of seriously dark imagery and quick and simple pop took itself very seriously but had an unmistakable sense of humor.

When Geffen announced the reformation of one of my all time beloved groups without the main visionary that originally fueled them, my heart sank. I envisioned the new group would likely have to consider the same discussion about formula that I just mentioned. A consideration of this discussion of formula is my reason for writing about the Misfits.

For one thing, the reformed Misfits did not share the original vision of the band. They clearly do not embrace the subject matter as did the original architect, whatever ineffable quality made the Misfits songs so heart-felt.

An apt comparison of this heresy (in the language of Reagan-era punk rock) would be the reconfiguration of another classic American group, the Dead Kennedys without iconic spazmo Jello Biafra. Jello is a passionate thinker of politics, and you know, sort of a shaman of political realities and he brought a unique passion to the Dead Kennedy’s songs. Without him, the grouped lacked something timeless.

So, I was thinking back at the time that I could just sit a spell and write a Misfits record of my own for my own amusement. I mean, it’s hilarious to say out loud, but it’s that formula I referred to earlier that makes the Misfits an interesting exercise in song writing. Not many bands can be contained in this way. I’m saying, it makes sense to me that someone could sit down and say, “I want to write a Misfits song,” and that would make perfect sense. You can’t sit down and write a Beatles song because those guys were not only all over the map, but across the universe as well! So, here I am… it’s 2009, twelve years after I thought of this idea to write my own Misfits songs and I feel I’m hitting a personal stride in how I do things. Interesting song-writing challenges are what I’m all about at this precise second.

Our group, thebrotheregg, has recorded all sorts of reinterpretations of songs based on similar logic. Sometimes I’ll record a basic guideline of a song and have the band flesh it out without them having even the benefit of hearing the original! If you search, you can find our interpretations of Magnetic Fields, the Bevis Frond, and the Art of Flying. We also have done tribute events in which we have performed live sets by bands that are not us, Galaxie 500 and Guided by Voices most notably.

So without blathering about this forever, I must conclude. I want to get in touch with my own inner well of anger, my own brutality and write some satisfying pop in the theme of the Misfits. It’s for fun and so if it doesn’t work, oh well. I mean, how do you top “Die Die My Darling” or “Angel Fuck”? You don’t. But if you read the account of Danzig’s replacement by Michael Graves, a 19 year old kid that never had even heard the Misfits before auditioning for the band, my proposal makes perfect sense. What difference does it make?

So, pretty soon you can laugh as we bulk up on our evil and do the task of recreating the Misfits for our own amusement. You may observe, as those who have heard preliminary demos, that I am still lacking in anger and evil as a singer. Not to worry, this will all be taken care of later as the songs flesh out. I will post a very preliminary demo just to put it out there right at the bottom of this post. Very rough first attempt of writing a Misfits song. Maybe we can get a group to actually hit these songs and make them a bit more cohesive, who knows? This one is called “Feast” and I’m playing guitar and singing, Jairus is playing bass and drums (not at the same time mind you.)

If the demo process is going well, I know it because I usually start laughing uncontrollably during the recording process. A few “Whoah-ooo’s” and aggressive “Hey’s” to support lyrics about dismemberment and blood orgasms make me giggle if all goes well. On one interview I saw with Danzig on Youtube he talks about his hatred of humanity or something in that ballpark and I suspect that perhaps this misanthropic sentiment “keeps it real” for him and offers constant renewal. Maybe he doesn’t laugh upon the discovery of a particularly awesome shout chorus, or the articulation of some especially brutal images, but I do! I can tell already that this project will be the therapy I so desperately need for my anger and God knows what else.

Please let us know if you have any clever song titles or graphic imageries that we can maybe incorporate. It's totally fun to sit around and come up with titles like,"Blood Flood" for example. Watch this space for more later....

-adam

Feast (shitty demo)