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Other Peoples' Song Request Line: The Shins' "Those to Come"

Chutes Too Narrow is twenty!

Dec 5 •

Other Peoples' Songs: "Lullaby of London"

RIP Shane MacGowan

Nov 30 •

Other Peoples' Songs Request Line

The happiest of Mondays to YOU, paid Machine Shop Subscriber — hit me up in the comments here and let me know what cover song you’d like me to r…

Nov 27 •

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I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song

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Other Peoples' Songs Request Line: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

May 9 • Colin Meloy

Studio Diary Part 3

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Happy Autism Acceptance Month

Apr 12 • Colin Meloy

Demonstration Tapes: The Infanta

May 2 • Colin Meloy

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Letter from Home Part II, Nov '23

On mixing and (fake) mustaches

Nov 17 •

Ask me! Ask me! Ask me!

Haven’t done one of these AMA things in a while — hit me up! I’m here to answer as many questions as I can get to in the next couple hours. Than…

Nov 9 •

Letter from Home: Nov. '23

All about Acetone (again)

Nov 2 •

Studio Diary Part 13

Week six; singing and guitaring; a special guest arrives

Oct 21 •

Studio Diary Part 12

Tracklists & album titles 😬

Oct 19 •

Studio Diary Part 11

Drum blankets and Dexys

Oct 15 •

Studio Diary Part 10

Week 8 maybe? But's who's keeping track

Oct 13 •

Colin Meloy's Machine Shop

Colin Meloy's Machine Shop

A sporadic journal about song-making and story-writing

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