Cutting Room Floor Lives!

Despite what you might hear in certain circles, there are still vague rumblings of activity deep beneath the surface in Cutting Room Floor. I feel it's important to remind the world that you can purchase both our "official" releases at cdbaby.

Both In Our Luck and our Whiskey Rebellion EP are available for download, as are popular individual songs such as "Walking Alone", "No Thanks Ms. M" and "Brilliant Night".

I anticipate some sneaky new releases at some point and some potential official recordings down the line. Keep an eye on Stars and Slights for new content. Life is a little murky right now so who really knows what to expect when it comes to music?

Anyway, please buy our music as we attempt to make more.

Stay tuned!

Song Of The Day - October 29, 2008

Yet another song of the day brought to you in part by we, the humble creators of this fantastic blog. Today's song has a bit of a story to it so bear with me for a second. 

My final semester at Notre Dame last year I took a course called Music Through Technology. It was an amazingly cool course where we learned about how music and technology have grown over the years and propelled one another to such great heights. 

Throughout the course of the semester we had assorted projects, one of which today's song was born from. For the particular project, we were instructed to use a program developed by Propellerhead called Reason to create a musical piece. Reason is a great program (if you have $500 extra bones laying around and love music you should strongly consider buying it) that allows you to operate a mixer on your computer and create wonderful artistic ensembles. You have to have a piano keyboard that hooks up to your computer (usually USB) in order to input sounds, though you could technically input notes and chords manually. The manual entry is awesome because it allows you to refine your music without having to "record" it again - you can just edit it in their sequencer.

Once I had recorded the music it was time for name selection. This process was pretty simple because Cutting Room Floor was just getting ready to release its third album, entitled "In Our Luck." Perhaps in tribute of the album title, and also in hopes of adding the track to the album, I dubbed the song "In Our Luck". 

I eventually sent Justin the file and he wrote lyrics to go over top. To spare you from further scattered commentary, I cordially present to you the latest and greatest musical offering from the duo formerly known as The Deuce.

Cutting Room Floor - In Our Luck

On June 27, 2008 rock gods Cutting Room Floor brought forth into this world a masterpiece of Alternative Rock. Their second official album, entitled "In Our Luck" introduced a more mature and polished sound thanks in part to the addition of keyboards and a better, more thorough understanding of the recording process.

CRF is humbled to share with you the entire track list from "In Our Luck" via video format, although all of the videos lack traditional video footage (except the recycled version of Garage Band Anthem). The videos that follow comprise the setlist for "In Our Luck" in sequential order. 

If you would like to receive a copy of "In Our Luck" please email the band at crfmusic@yahoo.com and provide your contact information. Please do not steal it by using html code trickery. Stealing is for losers and sinners so stop what you're doing now and just listen. Thanks and enjoy!

Track 1 - Rainy Day

Track 2 - Walking Alone

Track 3 - Z

Track 4 - Victim of Circumstance

Track 5 - Drive Me

Track 6 - Goodnight Boston

Track 7 - Forsyth Street

Track 8 - Stars And Slights

Track 9 - Garage Band Anthem

Track 10 - 11:12

Note - The sound for "Z" and "11:12" is a little off and I'm not sure why. I've tried different uploads and settings for both of them to no avail. 

Song Of The Day - June 30, 2008

Hello and welcome again ladies and gents. As promised in our welcome post each day we will deliver a song of the day to your internet browser. Music is a passion of ours that we we would like to share with all of you, so feel blessed.

Since this is the inaugural song of the day we've decided to present it in video format!

And now without any further adieu... the music Gods present to you:

"Garage Band Anthem" by Cutting Room Floor, the ninth track on their newly released album entitled In Our Luck. *Special thanks goes out to Mark Wurzelbacher for helping us out with the piano track. 

Here's how everything turned out. Let us know what you think!

Cutting Room Floor Montage

* - Mark took the time out of his busy schedule to help me with a project for my Music Technology class at ND. I recorded several takes of Mark on the keys and edited them, ironically enough, with the Garage Band program on my Mac. After adding effects to the audio track I set it to a movie slide show of CRF pictures using iMovie.

Welcome!

Greetings to all of our friends, families, fellow bloggers, and internet surfers. Consider this as the first among (hopefully) many posts from Stars and Slights.

We have never done this before but we promise not to disappoint you. In the unlikely event that you are disappointed, you have permission to tell us why we suck, why you suck, or why you couldn't understand the intellectual and satiric nature of our posts. But most importantly, tell us what you'd like to see us do to improve our website or impart some overall blogging knowledge. Seriously though, we want to provide you with the best experience possible while viewing our site, so please leave your feedback!

A little bit about us:

Brian

• Graduated from the University of Notre Dame from the Mendoza College of Business with a BA in Marketing on May 18, 2008
• Currently resides in Minneapolis, MN
• Enjoys golfing, playing guitar, listening/creating music, sports, Notre Dame athletics and beer

Justin

• Finishing up his final semester at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Currently resides in Blacksburg, VA
• Enjoys golf, making, listening to and studying music, bourbon, Virginia Tech athletics and the greatest town in the entire Commonwealth, Blacksburg

Stars and Slights

• "Stars and Slights" is the eponymous name of a song by the band Cutting Room Floor, which was co-founded by Justin (vocals) and Brian (guitars) along with fellow members Alan Brown (drums, auxiliary percussion) and Luke Sweet (bass, back-up vocals, guitars, keys)
• It is the seventh track on CRF's second album, The Whiskey Rebellion EP, which was released during the summer of 2006. It also will appear as the eighth track on their third newly released album entitled In Our Luck

Things to expect from us:

We will provide commentary on world news, sports, trends, music and much more. Check in with us daily to see our "Song of the Day." Additionally, each week we will select an "Album of the Week."

Thank you for reading the inaugural post from Stars and Slights!

Enjoy and thank you for visiting our site!