Back in June, the interactive marketing agency I work for (Raidious) received a call from Inc.com’s J.J. McCorvey.  J.J. requested an interview with us about our use of Google Apps for business, and we were flattered.

Check out the article. I was glad to have the opportunity to geek out about such a great suite of tools. Thanks to Taulbee Jackson for being on the call with me, and for being a good sport when a couple of his statements were attributed to me.

If that isn’t enough… later today I found this gem:

Thank you, internet. Thank you for being awesome.

Happy Record Store Day 2010!

To celebrate, I’d like to share the playlist above from Thunders‘ 2009 set at the Indianapolis record store Indy CD & Vinyl. Shot on a Sony HDRFX1 with audio from a wireless mono mic in the back of the room, it’s been culled from the archives and placed on Vimeo for your internet video viewing pleasure.

Today I share a most overdue post – the second and final episode of the RockitBomb.TV pilot project. I am happy to post an interview and set opener from Russian Circles, an amazing band that I have had the fortune to see multiple times, as well as the honor of sharing a bill with them via Thin Fevers.

Check out Andy and Annie’s interview, and the band’s set opener from the April 23rd, 2009 show at Radio Radio .

For anyone who missed my previous post – this project was a collaboration that I embarked on last summer with A2 Industries. Unfortunately, due to my career change, and A2 busy bringing awesome to Indianapolis, the project has been indefinitely shelved.

Thanks to the guys in Russian Circles and A2 for being awesome to work with!

I wasn’t sick – I worked there.

Since 2003 I had been under the employ of Community Health Network. As a member of the Business Development Division’s e-Business team, I saw my role evolve from web designer to Director of New Media.  It was a great experience – professionally I met bounds of great people and learned a lot from both team members and leadership. Personally, I started my family while working there, and enjoyed the friendship of a great work family. I would not be where I am today without that experience.

My new “Drug”

I now find myself as Vice President of Operations at Raidious. I could not ask for a more perfect opportunity: I am working with a great team in an exploding field, I get to wear jeans to the office (when I’m there), we all use macs, and we have an office downtown.

In my new role at Raidious, I will get to do what I do best: put the pieces together. The past three months have already taught me a great deal about what it takes to build a company, and what it takes to deliver great work. We are not only starting a new company, we are inventing a new business.

Building a company doesn’t leave much time for other pursuits, including updating my own website apparently. I still have some personal projects in the hopper, but I will be closing off some others. It is my noble intention to keep this site updated with progress on all things big and small in 2010.

What you can expect:

Raidious - Raidious will be creating some amazing things in 2010 for some amazing companies, subscribe to the company blog to get lots of updates on what we are doing and how we do it.

Music Videos - I had started a series of posts on making a music video, but the project stalled shortly after. I will be publishing my second and last post in that series as a bookend to the project, perhaps to be picked back up at a later date. I am still working on another music video project, with a time-line yet to be determined.

iPhone Apps – I cannot stop thinking of ideas for iPhone and now iPad apps. A colleague of mine and I have some cool stuff in the works – stay tuned. I did, however, help launch the Standard Recording Company’s new iPhone app. You can download it here.

RockitBomb.com – RockitBomb is pretty much over. I may do some mixes or quick episodes again someday, but don’t expect much. RockitBomb.TV was a great pilot project, but is being shelved to make room for work that keeps food on the table. You can catch old episodes of the podcast in the RockitBomb category on this site, and watch some of the video shot for RockitBomb.TV on my vimeo channel.

Thin Fevers – We are still working on new material. Expect to hear some new stuff in 2010, or at least one new song. We recently released some new material for free, and we are currently working on new stuff.

We shot three pilot episodes, the first of which was an interview with Tim Barry, formerly of Avail. We got to sit down with Tim for an interview, the folks at NationalUnderground.org were kind enough to lend us some archival footage, and we got footage of Tim performing two great songs at Local’s Only in Indianapolis.

Special thanks to Those Young Lions, NationalUnderground.org, and A2 for working with me on this project, the “as final as it is going to get” cut is below for your viewing pleasure:

It has been too long since I have posted. Happy Holidays from my family and I!

I swear I  wrote this post the other day, but it the internets apparently ate it.

The Winter Sounds are incredible. Imagine for a minute that you are Robert Smith, only born in 1979 and living in Athens Georgia. You start a band and it comes out as the Winter Sounds.

The band is getting ready to record a new record and I sincerely recommend that you get involved. If you plegde 30 dollars you will get the record, a shirt, and your face on the cover. Awesome.

If my rambling opinion isn’t enough to get you to drop some coin, take a listen to some of the tracks below. These are some of my personal favorites from The Winter Sounds most recent release, “Church of the Haunted South.” This is one my best of 2009, hands down.

If you like what you hear be sure to pick up the record from the Winter Sounds’ bandcamp page.

This weekend was a blast. My son went to Grandma and Grandpa’s for the weekend, while Jen and had a busy weekend full of the fun work.

The video above is of Today The Moon Tomorrow The Sun playing at The Indieana Handicraft Exchange.  TTMTTS is an insanely great band from Atlanta Georgia, playing at an insanely great event that Amanda and Neal Taflinger helm. Thin Fevers was fortunate enough to get to share a bill with them later that night at Local’s Only to an unfortunately small crowd. However, those in attendance left with melted eye-balls à la Raiders of the Lost Ark – if you ever have a chance to see this band, do.

Day two of the Handicraft Exchange was equally as fun – EleanorMac did very well, and while Jen was selling, I was busy buying from Mike Altman, Clinton Reno, and some other vendors.

All in all, a great weekend.