Presence

Apologies for being away from the blog for the better part of a month. I've been preparing for some new ventures and trying to keep my head straight. Part of this overhaul included revamping my web presence. With that in mind, I've registered a couple new domains: monumentaldocuments.com and michaelshiflet.com.

The former only has a placeholder currently and the latter will just bounce you back to the blog for the time being. Both will be live sooner than later, however.

Related to this, you may or may not have noticed the GMBY site now redirects to monumentaldocuments.com/gmby/. It is officially dead. (This is also why images/links on the blog were temporarily not working. Should all be fixed now.)

And finally, I've also finally joined Facebook in order to promote... myself, I guess. Look me up there, Monumental Documents.

To make up for the absence, I hope to have an ES Mixtape online before the weekend.

Exciting things to come.

Gutter Divas CS on Dokuro

When I returned from California I found a box postmarked Italy overflowing with copies of this "new" tape. New gets quotes because the original Gutter Divas material was recorded in 2005 for a now-defunct label and then reworked in 2008 when Dokuro offered to release it.

Having gone through five years and three potential formats before seeing the light of day as a beautiful cassette, Gutter Divas is now ready for your ears. Dokuro was even kind enough to post a sample on Soundcloud.



I have copies available for $6 ppd / $8 world
Email/paypal to ms @ gmby . net

Thanks.

Kudler & Shiflet Live on KUSF

Here is some audio documentation of mine and Jesse Kudler's performance on Jacob Huele's Breakthrough in the Grey Room program last Monday.

Kudler has stepped his game up since the last time we shared a stage in 2005. (I'd like to think I have as well.) I thought he was good back then, but would seriously and easily put him in the upper echelon of tabletop guitarists these days. Performing with him was a treat...even if he did show up to the studio an hour late.


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Joe Colley

Some images of Joe's set in Oakland last week.






It was a stellar performance that has me anticipating his soon-to-be-released 3LP set even more than I was beforehand. I am so glad I finally got to see him in action.

Tecate Moving Picture

Here is a full video take of the previously animated amplified 12-pack case portion of my set on 8/21:

Thanks to Brandon Nickell for shooting this video, lending his amazing PA rig that night, and about a dozen other things.

Amplified Tecate

Flyer: 8.18: Art Damage Lodge, Cincinnati, OH

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