Too many shows to make full length single show reviews: Thursday: Opeth at Monarch event center. Monarch Event Center used to be a movie theater, it’s not anywhere near Red River and 6th, it’s in a strip mall off Airport Blvd. Not only that, they hung plastic butterflies (get it? monarch?) on shiny strings from [...]
This has been the week for sludgy post-metal. Plenty of bands have jumped into the build-explode-repeat, wall-of-sound, and crushing riffs of the genre this year, but the two best albums of the scene came out this week. Burst has been moving slowly deeper into the genre, from what were crust/hardcore roots. In Coveting Ways was [...]
Today, my Chicago-based WordPress-powered design firm released their first plugin: WordPress Flash Photo Carousel Plugin. It allows you to easily manage photo galleries from your media library, and creates a template tag to easily insert the Carousel Galleries into your theme. I love working with WordPress 9-5. It’s different than building and supporting general use [...]
The guys at Six Apart have released Sandbox for Movable Type. They’ve included the winning themes from the Sandbox Designs Competition. The first step is to install Sandbox as a plugin. After that, you’ll be able to install Promised Land as a one click install1 . You can also manually install any Sandbox Child Theme, [...]
