Turn Up the ‘Good’ Knob: The Importance of Mastering

Mastering. For years of my life, I went on having no clue what it was all about. All it meant to me was dropping our CD off at some seedy studio in Boston, paying them $75 a song and then picking up another CD with the same music that just…sounded better.

The Warehouse Sessions

The final product of the Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Groovebots jam session at the Source Audio Warehouse.

The Help Live at The Middle East Pt. II

As promised, the second half of Live At The Middle East. With bonus video footage!  Yay internets! Aeroplane by willcady Anyone, Anywhere by willcady Sunrise by willcady Thunder & Bison by willcady

The Help Live at The Middle East Pt. I

This winter, The Help will be expanding it’s music catalog on all major online music retailers. Included in this release are 2008′s In A Stunning Display of Athleticism and 2009′s Live At The Middle East. The tracks below are from the latter album, which was taken from a live show at The Middle East in … Read more

Be nice to me, Internet.

Whether or not this is actually for sincere, artistic reasons or some sick inner exhibitionist motive remains to be seen. Be nice to me, internet.

Music files for youuuuu

I added some music files to the page for you to listen to or download. They are each songs from the last phase of The Help. Before things fell apart, we were writing a pretty incredible album by my standards. These recordings are the best of what I can give you to share where our music was going.

The Help at the House of Blues

Today, I found this video today of us playing “Radioactive” at the House of Blues a couple months back. Live Nation and all of their venues (including HoB) are really militant about preventing fan recording at their shows so cheers to the person who pulled this off!

The Help: Animals

This song, ‘Animals’ has a lot of meaning for me personally as I feel it captures the frustration and isolation we all began to feel independently and collectively.

Photoblog: Alex warming up for Champions of Breakfast