Experimental Post

Testing a new IFTTT recipe. When I post a new blog entry it also sends to my Twitter account and tweets to my followers.

A Band Named Brolly

Stumbled across the indie band, Brolly and their album Hollow Home Rd. on Noisetrade. It's a gem of a free download. They have a very memorable sound. I think it's a bit of shoegaze pop with some soft melancholy electro and acoustic tossed in. It's mellow and reflective at times, almost ethereal. Nice arrangements with strings included on several tracks.

They have a show coming up in Mountain View, Ca. on August 31st at Red Rock Coffee. They open for a Bay Area artist named Danielle Young. I recommend checking both of them out.

You can find Brolly on Facebook, Twitter, ReverbNation, BandCamp, iTunes and a bunch of other places.

"Now I am breaking up sand castles under my feet because nothing I build ever made me complete" - Brolly: Dragon Eyes

Tried ifttt.com?

I have begun using ifttt as of late. It's an acronym for "If This Then That". It puts the internet to work for you. What you do is create triggers and actions. You automate things to make portions of your technological life a bit simpler. Some of those tasks that you try to do occasionally or even daily can be done for you.

Here are several of my recipes:

• If I post a tweet to my Twitter account, that tweet gets archived in my Evernote. 
• When I upload a picture to Facebook it also gets posted to my Flickr account. 
• When @eMusic tweets their free #DailyDownload, I receive a text message. 
• When a new album is added to Amazon's Top Free MP3 Albums, I receive an email. 

I have a number of these different recipe's automating various routines that previously would have required me to take some very specific action (if I remembered to!) My latest recipe is the reason for this particular blog post. When I publish a new blog post, a link to it will also be posted on my Facebook timeline. It takes a bit of tinkering to make some of your recipes work but it's worth the effort.