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We have been selected to perform in the 2009 Oswego County Fair Battle of the Bands. We will be one of four competing bands. Entry is free, and to cast a vote it costs $1 and you can vote as many times as you want.
Show Info:
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Oswego County Fair
7pm–11pm
All Ages, Free

Bands playing:
Scraping [...]

We have been receiving some radio time online. The podcast “Dalecast” played “Falling For You” on Episode 555, and the podcast “White Noise” played “Epilogue” to close out Episode 3. Many thanks to those stations for playing our music as we greatly appreciate the exposure. So, if any other radio stations want some free traffic [...]

Coheed and Cambria released their “Neverender” DVD set today which features the live footage from all four nights in New York City at Terminal 5. In the booklet, there is a listing that has my name in it. Happy early birthday to me!

We’ve booked two more shows at The Lost Horizon for this spring! Be sure to check us out on March 28th and May 2nd at The Lost Horizon in East Syracuse! Posters and more information to come!

Our 11th Hour is playing three shows in the next few weeks around Syracuse. The dates and times are as follows:
Friday, December 26th @ The Mill in Syracuse, at 8pm
Friday, January 2nd @ Station 58 in North Syracuse at 8pm

Friday, January 9th @ The Lost Horizon in Syracuse at 8pm
With Cursed From Birth and Paricia
$5 [...]

C’mon Myspace, you’re the biggest social network with the largest userbase. That doesn’t mean you’re excused from having a decently designed website. Your layout is just awful, your code is bloated and slow, and it seems like the only kind of advertisments you allow are intrusive ones. Here are ten things you need to accomplish [...]

Today we’re getting ready to leave Las Vegas and head back home, but before we do that we took a tour bus to the Hoover Dam. It was a lot cooler to see in person than all of the pictures I’ve seen of it. I took all sorts of photos while we were there; a [...]

Tonight we went to see The Amazing Jonathan at the Harmon Theater. He did many of the same tricks that he did during his Comedy Central special, but it’s always funny to see the interaction with him and the audience participant. There were a few different things as well as a lot of little improvised [...]

This afternoon my family and I went to see the Mac King magic/comedy show at the Harrah. He did some awesome illusions and had some really funny jokes. His audience-acquired participants kept messing up (like writing their name on the back of the card, or realizing their watch had been stolen), but he recovered from [...]

Tonight, we saw Penn & Teller live at the Rio. They did a lot of their older stuff and mixed in some new things too. They ended with their famous “Magic Bullets” routine which was really cool to see live. After the show I met both of them and got their autographs. Teller talks when [...]

This morning we left for Hancock Airport in Syracuse at 5am! We were all packed and ready to go and got there in time to see some F-16s take off. We flew to Philadelphia and connected onto a Las Vegas flight there. Five hours later (or, including time zones, two hours later) we touched down [...]

I just got my grades for my last semester at SUNY Oswego. My overall GPA for the semester alone was 3.66 which pushes my cumulative to 3.36. So now I’m considered to have graduated cum laude, but because the graduation ceremony was last week, I don’t get recognized as graduating with honors by walking with [...]

Tonight we saw Louis Ramey, the stand-up comedian in the Campus Center at SUNY Oswego. We got their early because we thought there would be a line, but were the first ones in. We sat up front to get a good seat, and as we guessed, Louis Ramey picked on us a bit- especially Katie, [...]

So we finally made a Myspace profile for our band. I added two instrumentals to it for now, but very soon they will be full band demos. Keep checking back as we finish writing and recording more songs. Add us as a friends and make some comments!
http://www.myspace.com/our11thhour

I started this one before I had the right kind of adapter for my new Mbox 2, so this was recorded with my new SM57, but not with ProTools. The vocals are not great, but the overall song turned out alright. This song (well a “dirty” version of it) will be featured on the next [...]

I just finished setting up my brand new SM57, Mbox 2 and Pro Tools! This is my first venture into the new interface and so the song is a little choppy at parts, but I’m learning. This is a straight acoustic cover of “Buried Myself Alive” by The Used. I really love the chorus in [...]

I covered the version that Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria made of “Your Love” by The Outfield. I really like the way he made it into a whispered, sullen acoustic song. This song will end up on the next Musician’s Lounge Rockstar, as well as on this years ML Valentine’s Day compilation.
1.) Your Love [...]

This is from a project that I started that is most likely not going to be finished. I was going to cover about five songs off the album, but things ended up grinding to a halt. This is my favorite song from the album, so it’s the only one that was completely finished. The acoustic [...]

I’ve wanted to learn and record this song since the summer of 2004, but I never had the means. I put my own little spin on this song- it’s sort of a dreamy acoustic version of the song. I’ve been playing around with instrument patches for my vocals, and finally found one where I don’t [...]

Tonight Katie and I met up with a few of her friends from home at RIT to see Brand New with Mewithoutyou and Thrice. It was a really great show, and their encore performance was an incredible 11 minute version of Untitled 2.