Hey, check this out. Good buddy Darin Caudle made a slew of short films whilst living in Taiwan and used some music I wrote for it. And I’d say the film makes the music sound a whole lot better than it actually does.

Anyway – take a gander:

the matter between you and me from darin caudle on Vimeo.

Hey, e’erbody! The latest Craig Moorhead hot pile of streaming crap – Speed = Distance / Time – is up and ready for you to listen. To.

This one was recorded back in 2003, and friends, that was a while ago. It was the last time I had a whole sound studio at my disposal. And better guitars. Waaaaay better guitars. But the same singing voice. So don’t expect miracles.

Things were simpler then. Maybe things are even simpler now. But whatever – I hope you enjoy.

Yes, compact discs. America’s new obsession. And now I’VE GOT ONE.

What you’ll see in the pictures below is the last full CD of junk I made way back in the wayback of 2003 called ‘Speed = Distance / Time’. I’ve set this thing up at Createspace.com, which is sort of an offshoot of Amazon.com. Their whole deal is on demand printing of CDs, DVDs, and books.

If you’re anything like me, you’d be pretty skeptical of this so-called on demand printing, figuring it would be some cheap junk. I mean, I knew it would have to be done on CD-Rs instead of regularly pressed CDs and that in itself suggests the final product would be pretty tacky. Also, I wasn’t really going to give the hard sell on these CDs (especially since you’ll be able to get for free if you want over at craigmoorhead.bandcamp.com). The lowest price I could charge was $9.99, which seems a bit steep.

But then I got the proof in the mail and, um, wow – I have to say that the quality is impressive.

Even the back of that CD is silver. Looks good, sounds good. Good stuff.

I just saw this show Yank! in NYC at the York Theater. If you’re up that way, you need to go check it out. It’s about two soldiers who fall in love during World War II and basically what that atmosphere was like, trying to not be gay in the army back then. Did you know there were thousands of gays and lesbians jailed for that junk back then? Straight up jailed.

Anyway, it’s getting tons of good reviews and now is your chance to be the first on your block to see it. Unless you live on my block, because – too late.

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Dudes – this year is going to be soooooo rad. More on this later.

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The next album is almost ready to go super live. It will be ‘Speed = Distance / Time’, one of the shortest albums in the whole dang collection. But also the most recent and best!

It’s going to be available for download as a name your price type of deal (and yes, $0 is one of the prices) and it will also be available as a physical CD, with totally cool design and liner notes and stuff that you and the family can all sit around and enjoy while listening to the songs. In fact, the liner notes may be even more enjoyable than the songs. There’s only one way to be sure – give ‘er a try.

The physical CD will be available for $9.99. I know that’s seems like more than $0.00, but it’s really not. All proceeds will go to Baron Von Records for to produce a new and even MORE special album. So please – give what you can, even if it is just a sympathetic ear.

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I’ve started a new, more horror-centric blog called ‘Your Guignol is Grand‘ that will basically take any horror themed content from this blog and host it over there, too. So if the only reason you come here is for horror stuff, ‘Guignol’ may be more your cup of tea. But if you’re in it for the full Craig-xperience, this is the place to be.

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I’m gonna have to change this site design yet again. Thought I’d solved all the problems of the last one, but now this one only displays correctly in Firefox. If you’re seeing a big blue box on the left that says “Most Popular Articles” – that’s the footer. You can imagine my frustration. So screw it. A new design will be coming soon.

Well, okay – so it’s not so special. But as long as you’re out shopping, why not treat yourself to something that costs less than anything you’ll buy today? How could a deal be better than that? You want I should pay you to download it?

Here’s the deal – over at the Craig Moorhead’s Music site, you can download an e.p. called ‘Stripper Music!’ – comprised of 6 known tracks you can stream and 5 bonus tracks that you get only if you download. You can choose from a variety of file types, so has best to meet the criteria of your ears. You enter an email address, press a button and bada-bing – free music.

Now, the music isn’t actually stripper music, though by some accounts, strippers have used some of my stuff in their routines. I can’t vouch for this activity, as it mainly occurred in Minnesota. But I have reason to believe this is all true. Regardless, ‘Stripper Music!’, despite its title, is very much good clean fun for the entire family. So please, enjoy.

And thanks for listening!

More good news about ‘Stripper Music!’ to impart – today only, November 19th, ‘The Bottom Of It’ will be featured over at that Garage Band site as a Track of the Day in the Indie Rock section. Be sure to head on over there and give it a listen. It’s been getting some good reviews from the kind folks over there. We’ll see how it goes!

In the meantime, you can still download ‘Stripper Music!’ for free, but only while supplies last. I’ll have to be taking it down soon as I put up the next album – and I’m not sure which one that’ll be yet. If for some reason anyone actually has any preferences, let me know. If you’re looking to put this stuff in your tape player, older stuff is probably gonna go for just two or three bucks, while newer stuff will be a little costlier.

Thanks again to everyone who has listened and downloaded! I’m truly surprised every day by how many people are hitting up the site. Thanks, everybody!

Because Craig Moorhead frontman Craig Moorhead is attracted to new, shiny things, when he finds a place he can upload songs and put them in contests, he does. And well – he has done it again.

On the Our Stage site, Craig has entered himself into something called the Converse “Get Out of the Garage” contest. Winners of the contest will be flown to Austin, TX next March to open for last year’s winners. At the Levi’s/FADER Fort? Which seems to be a part of SXSW? T’would be cool!

But – in this particular contest, ‘The Bottom of It’ is currently ranked 67 out of – jeez louise – 2674 entries. This makes Craig a little nervous. It makes him do things like worry about putting together a band by next March and talk about himself in the third person. It is doubtful that he has anything to worry about, of course. There are at least 50 songs on the list that are better than his. Hopefully this will end well and soon.

In the meantime – ‘Stripper Music!’ is still available as a free download, so feel free to go get that sucker and let everyone know you knew what you knew before everybody knows – ya know?

Also – the next CD in the library is coming up in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned.

Yes, it’s true! ‘The Bottom of It’, a song from the ‘Stripper Music!’ e.p., is in competition with 205 other songs on a site called GarageBand.com and has hit the halfway mark thanks to 9 blind reviews by other Garage Band members. It’s not an open voting situation and you can’t search out and review music (it’s always blind – no artist or song names involved when you hear the song) or else I’d urge a mass ballot box stuffing, Iran-stylie.

As always, ‘Stripper Music!’ is still available as a free download and all I ask in return is your email addy. Go and enjoy!

So maybe you’ve gone to the Craig Moorhead’s Music site to enjoy the totally free download of a little e.p. called ‘Stripper Music!’, but you leave your mouse hovering over the download button because you just have that one burning question that must be answered. That question is more than likely “Craig, I want to download this e.p. and all, but man, I mean, just what are all these songs about, anyway? What am I getting myself into?”

Well… I’ll tell you.

FACT – The song ‘FirstLastNext’ is the first ever song I ever wrote for my wife. Doubly interesting is that, at the time of recording, I wouldn’t meet her for another two years.

FACT – The song ‘Nothing To Do With What Happened’ has a very misleading title. It has EVERYTHING to do with what happened.

FACT – The song ‘Bullettrain’ is the only song I’ve ever written that ended up on a mixtape that I got from somebody else.

FACT – ‘What About You’ is about my Grams. Rest in peace, Grams.

FACT – ‘The Bottom Of It’ I can’t even tell you about. Totally too private. Stop looking.

And…

FACT – ‘Mulletproof Vest’ has vocals that I’d like to redo. Should I redo them? Download that sucker and let me know.

Thanks to everyone who has taken a listen to and downloaded for free ‘Stripper Music! the second e.p.’ in the last few weeks. The cockles of my heart are totally warmed, and if you had known what shape those cockles were in before, you’d know that means something.

‘Stripper Music!’ is still up for free grabs for anybody who’d like a taste and all I’ll take in return is your email address. For those who are easily scared off by such things, just wanted to let you know that your email address doesn’t go anywhere but in my pocket and that means you’ll get an email from me any time something musically inclined goes down in the Craig Moorhead / Oxygen Destroyer universe, be it albums, gigs, videos, or whatevs.

There is exactly one review of ‘Stripper Music!’ up online that was written by someone who wasn’t me or a friend of mine. It’s by a cool dude named Craig Clarke and here’s a bit of it:

After multiple listens to Craig Moorhead’s album Bold Experiment, I wanted to hear more. Fortunately, around that time, he released Stripper Music: The Second EP, and it’s even better in some ways than its predecessor.

Our man, Craig, is obviously stretching himself on each new release. Stripper Music opens with a lovely, soothing keyboard instrumental that I could almost call “new-agey” (but I won’t). The second track, “Nothing to Do with What Happened,” is a highlight, with lyrics that are by turns serious, clever, and quirky. And his remix (“remixxx”) of mk12′s “The Heat of the Ninja” is a stunning foray into sound effects and overdubs, the like of which I have not heard from the usually “lo-fi” Moorhead.

Hit the link to read more.

Hold up, hold up, you may be saying. What do you mean by Oxygen Destroyer? I’m glad you asked. Oxygen Destroyer is the name by which me and m’wife will go as we embark on our non-solo career. K is a fine drummer from way back and has served in many, many DC area bands over the years. My favorite characteristic of her playing is that she hates to play anything slow. So don’t expect any power ballads. Mostly, it’ll be punky garage rock, real fast, real messy, and real loud. But that’s if we can get our crap together and start rehearsing. There are all kinds of plans in the works and our boy can already play the tambourine… sorta… so it’s gonna be a real Partridge Family-type situation, but maybe with more swearing and feedback.

Much more to come…

Over in the sidebar there you’ll see a couple of new sections. One is Sounds wherein you can currently listen to and/or download for straight up FREE my e.p. from way back in 2002 known as Stripper Music!. It is comprised of the tracks you’ll find there plus five others that I have no right nor permission to advertise nor distribute. So on that tip, please don’t tell.

The other is The Recordings, a joint where I have listed all the albums and all the lyrics of all the junk I’ve spewed forth since, say, 1994. There’s no music to be had here, really, but if you want to be astounded at the breadth and depth of the Craig Moorhead 4-track catalog… well… go be astounded?

Now – in the coming days and months, I’ll be uploading everything I’ve ever done and making the stuff available for download. As with Stripper Music, the albums will stream here for a while and I’ll probably change that up every now and again once I have more stuff ready to go. So you can give everything a good listen before deciding whether or not to waste your money.

I’ll also be doing limited edition CDs, though I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to go about doing them – whether by hand or by pre-order or by on-demand pressing. But that’s for me to worry about. The downloads’ll be dirt cheap and the CDs will be a little more pricey, but keep in mind how useful such things can be in terms of cupholders or table propper uppers or door keeper openers.

This probably also hopefully means there is something new in the offing. We shall see.

Thanks for listening!

So I have an album floating around out there on the digital music sites. Something I put on CD Baby at the beginning of the century, sold two CDs of, and then everything went quiet.

But every now and again, I get the heads up that a review has been written about this thing. And I’d like to share with you the insights of user ‘jkfhgjk’:

“ijihjiogjhortjhoijhkj mmiugh oihuit itu ouo iohiju hiojkgjb ijrbpkb iopj pjkljm”

Even better than this spam review is that 2 out of 4 people found it useful.

Awesome.

I put ‘The Problem w/ Troubles‘ up on CD Baby a few years ago. Since then, they’ve put this album everywhere. Or at least here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. That last one is Polish. Sweet.

It is apparently on 42 different download sites serving e’erbody in the world. My haul for all of this digital distribution? To date: $3.43.

You might think I’m disappointed, but you’d be very wrong. This means that at least a couple of people I don’t know must’ve downloaded some songs. Some of them might’ve been Polish! Sweet.

Hi, everybody! The National Geographic News Podcast for Friday, October 13th is up and running. Check out new host Peter Standring’s vocal stylings and hear all about Paul Salopek’s time in a Sudanese prison.

Listen, won’t you?

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Casanova #5 is on its way, ladies (that’s not it to the side there, incidentally. That’s just my go to image for all things Casanova). There’s a write up and short interview with Matt at Variety’s Bags and Boards blog.

As more and more folks jump on the Cassanova bandwagon, the story hits an interesting stride in this last issue. Previously, the storyline was so down-right whacked out that there seemed to be no cliches to subvert; no expectations to confound.

But as you read #5, you’ll find some lovely confoundings, some writerly subversions, and what is, so far, my favorite issue.

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What’s that you say? You always wanted to own Craig Moorhead’s The Problem W/ Troubles but didn’t want to deal with the hassle of CDs and jewel cases?

Well, stop cryin’, because that thing is so totally downloadable all over the place.

If you dig eMusic.com, then you can get it here.

Or maybe you’re more of an iTunes cat, in which case this is the link you’re looking for.

Either way, please enjoy.

And thanks for listening!

Oxygen Destroyer had its first recording session today and it was a humdinger! Laid down drums and guitars for a brand spankin’ new song and while there’s been some heated discussion over whether or not we will re-record it, I think it sounds pretty freakin’ great.

Finished the Not Done Album, renamed it ‘Speed = Distance / Time’ and now it is posted and ready for sale. If you already have the Not Done Album, I’m not sure it’s worth your time to hear the minor tweaks on this one. But, hey, if you have $10 burning a hole in your pocket, please feel free to buy.

Also, watched the movie ‘The Girl Next Door’ with Keeks this weekend and we were both thoroughly confused and delighted. Confused because… um… wasn’t it supposed be more like Porky’s? And delighted because we just both sincerely loved it when it was over. It’s two hours of male dork wish-fulfillment but with a big soft mushy heart and less bad one-liners than you might expect. I still don’t know how to explain it. I wasn’t ready for it. But I really liked it a lot.

The Problem W/ Troubles is totally being sold at Tower Records.

Here’s a review of it.

I couldn’t be happier. Unless Tower wasn’t going bankrupt, then I’d be happier. But still!

In the last week of rocking out and recording and rushing to mix and master, I lost my voice. I also became a petite Asian girl (as you can see in the picture.) All of this has really thrown a monkey into the wrench as I figure out this new lifestyle I must live.

What does this mean for you, the consumer? Probably nothing. Except that you won’t be buying this year’s CD until next year, if you already had plans to do so. But I’m also going to have a remastered version of Sad Sad Little Boy the EP for sale soon and then I’ll be finishing up this current CD as soon as the ol’ vocal chords are up and running.

So, I hope this doesn’t ruin anyone’s holiday. And have a Manigong Bagong Taon!

photo by niki harless.

Finished my first pass at remastering 26% Rock N Roll Solution. A few of the songs came out sounding great, like Zippo:

Craig Moorhead – Zippo

Some of them still have a ways to go.

I’m also trying to get the picture you see to the left as the cover. I used it before on a version of 26% that I gave out and I love it. I just need to buy the lefts to it now. And being that I’m a multi-millionaire, it should be no problem.

Hi, everybody! The Problem w/ Troubles is back in stock at CD Baby for a measly $7.75 ($10 total, with shipping). That’s about $0.50 per track. Let’s see iTunes beat that!

You get the exact same deal here at our shop, where you can pay through PayPal. You can also get Craig Moorhead’s Bold Experiment while you’re there.

And of course, I haven’t forgotten my thriftier fans: Craig Moorhead’s Stripper Music is still a free download through December 31st, 2003.

Look! Someone I’ve never actually seen in person has written rather favorable things about a couple of Baron Von Records’ latest releases.

Check the review out at Craig’s Music Club. Just to be clear, this is not some marketing ploy on my part, creating a whole ‘nother website and pretending to write tons of reviews so as to cleverly mask my true ambition: world domination. No. This is another Craig, completely separate from myself. So peruse his site knowing that you do so with blinders off.

Unless you would find it fascinating that I might create an entirely different site just to write my own reivews. Because really, as long as you check out the site, it’s win-win. I mean win-WIN-win! Because there are three people, including you, dear reader, involved in this scenario!