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Taken by my father this week. Can’t wait to visit in December.

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You know what I like? Receiving mail. You should really send me a postcard. Maybe this week. If you send me one I’ll send you one too. Oh by the way I’m moving offices (and therefor mail addresses) as we type! From our good ol’ little hole in the wall at 245 Canal Street down [...]

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One of my goals for 2009 is to get back to doing more photography. Aside from the shoots with Aimee Mann, Kaki King and some shots in my neighborhood and snapshots in Mexico I barely touched my camera. I’d like to go to shooting at least once a month in 2009, even if it’s just [...]

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During this Thanksgiving week, even more so than usual, I try to be aware of things to be grateful for, and on the business end my collaborations with designer Carolyn Wachnicki are high on the list. It’s hard work, we have our challenges but always end up pushing each other to great new heights visually. [...]

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A message from Mr. Matt Singer: It brings me and Family Records great pleasure to announce that the upcoming December Residency at The Living Room will connect music to an incredibly important cause. These holidays are meeting many families with greater hardships than usual, and we will be using each Wednesday in December to address [...]

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Guilt By Association Vol. 2 was released two days ago and is being featured on the Amazon MP3 store all week thanks to our wonderful friends at the Orchard! UPDATE: Indie Music heavyweights Stereogum wrote a very nice post on GbA 2 as well. UPDATE 2:Irish digital retailer 3Ireland also features GbA2 on their front [...]

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Key NYC website Gothamist just posted an interview with Family Records’ Gabriel Kahane who is playing a NYC home coming show as part of his current tour in support of his debut album. Below an excerpt about some of the things he’s up to right now. Read the full article here. What are you currently [...]

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I’m thrilled to announced that Guilt By Association Vol. 2 will be digitally released today on Engine Room Recordings. Pitchfork just announced it’s release and hit the nail on the head! For round two, the comp seems to have evolved from a collection of covers of guilty pleasures to an unabashed celebration of pop, probably [...]

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Last night’s top 3 performers according to the jury below were: Becca Stevens, Elias Orling and Matthew Dorrien. Becca’s song was easily the most sophisticated of the night, Matthew’s the catchiest and Elias was just all around entertaining. I was definitely heavily under-tattooed amongst my lovely fellow jury members Michelle Rakshys and Taeko Saito (look [...]

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Tonight the first round of the the Williamsburg Live Songwriter Competition, organized by my good friends over at JezebelMusic.com, takes place. Currently in it’s fifth year of production, and with a pool of 1,000 applicants who submit their original recorded songs, 150 were chosen to play across 8 rounds with a final prize of $4,000. [...]

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