• Accordion, Instrument of the Gods

Scenes from last night’s gig

I arrived a little early for last night’s gig with Tom Hood and the Tropical Sons. We were the house…

• Geek

“White-collar Spirit Costume” is now a meme theme

First, there was the Spirit Venture Capitalist costume, and now there’s this one: “Freelance Recruiter Who Ghosted You.” I see…

• funny

New word of the day

All we need is a group called “Insane Galt Posse” to record a rap with these lyrics: “Fucking sharing, how…

• The Current Situation

“Poloniu — er, I mean tea?”

• Money

Halloween costume of the moment

Thanks to Ken Nickerson for the find!

• Accordion, Instrument of the Gods

Linus Akesson’s “Commodordion” — an electronic accordion made with two Commodore 64 computers and floppy disks for bellows!

Leave it to Linus Akesson, 8-bit music maker extraordinaire and creator of other retrofitted instruments such as the  Sixtyforgan and Qwertuoso to…

• Music

The best way to support your favorite band is to buy their merch

According to iGroove’s recent study (original German version here, English interpretation here), a musician or band can expect to get…