My Contribution to the “What I Actually Do” Meme

1) Someone makes something amazing and funny. 2) Hundreds of people make rip offs that are progressively less funny. 3) Eventually everyone hates the meme, than someone makes an ironic, self referential version of the meme. It’s the great circle of life on the internet. FACEBOOK MEME SHARER – What I Think I Do…

Artist Profile in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s “The Ticket”

Sarasota’s premier newspaper periodically features locale musicians in their arts publication / website “The Ticket”, and they’ve featured yours-truly this week. Journalist Dawn Scire does a bang-on job describing my sound in all its permutations and combinations, and I might just have to steal some of her phrases when describing my music in the future. Rock on for [...]

tUnE-yArDs!!!

AHHH! tUnE-yArDs!!! This album w h o k i l l is SO good. And WTF she has played with ?uestlove and Black Thought?!?! This tune is killer, click to watch her performing “Gangsta” with the Roots live on Jimmy Fallon. She is the lead singer of Sister Suvi as well, whose drummer Nico Dann you just might [...]

Stop SOPA – This is out of control

As a copyright holder myself, I fully understand the need and economic necessity of reducing piracy. The bill currently before congress referred to as “SOPA” is absolutely NOT the way to accomplish this, and would in fact charge me and anyone else who has ever posted footage of themselves singing a popular song online with A FELONY. [...]

Top-Downloaded Song on MadeLoud.com

Excited to announce that my track “Worst Kind of Perfect” is one of the top downloaded songs on music website madeloud.com I finished just a few songs below an artist named “Zan-X” performing what I can only imagine is a politically charged commentary on the Nixon administration and the resultant Watergate scandal  

I made it on the Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks!

Snapped this photo at one of my gigs, and I am very “honored” to announce that it has been “featured” on this site. “Enjoy!” www.unnecessaryquotes.com

Great Tool for Cross-Browser Friendly Webdesigns: “NetRenderer”

In updating the website for JoJoe, a Montreal-based Reggae Artist, I was having some trouble with the site displaying improperly in Internet Explorer (on Windows which I don’t have access to). It looked fine on my mac, but the band said on their PC it was all messed up after I had experienced and thought [...]

Ben Hammond on Jango Radio

Still not sure exactly how I feel about Jango – it’s an internet radio station, similar to Pandora (which I was lucky enough to be selected for with my first album “[Reasonably] Honest“) however unlike Pandora which has a rigorous selection process, Jango has Jango Airplay which is basically “pay-to-play” for indie artists to be [...]

Finally! Add words to your Iphone’s Predictive Dictionary

I am so sick of having the word “Cort” (a fine drummer and steel pannist with whom I play and contact via email and SMS frequently) auto-replaced with “Cory”. That is just the most common of many, many iphone “fixes” that annoy me almost daily. To some extent the Iphone seems to learn new words, [...]

“When I’m Supposed To” featured on Website

My friend and fellow Siesta Key local Kristen Manick is a photographer here in Sarasota, and has recently featured some of my tunes on her website. Check it out: http://www.kirstenmanick.com