UMS day 2

I’m overwhelmed by all the music! At this point I wander half-aimless, in and out of venues — quick to judge, but more often inspired. Glad to discover that most of my favorites are local, and I can stalk them like a groupie until the next UMS arrives again.

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Tech continues to be political – Feb, 2025
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A web component for CodePen embeds? – Sep, 2024
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A slash-why proposal – Jul, 2024
User styles on the web – Jan, 2024
Custom element, two ways – Jan, 2024
New year, same (terrible) Mia – Dec, 2023
CSS @scope @ 12 Days of Web – Dec, 2023
Reclaiming my time – May, 2023
Cascade Layers @ 12 Days of Web – Dec, 2022
Javascript automation on Mac – Dec, 2022
Personal Histories from Sara Wachter-Boettcher – Oct, 2022
Ancient Web Browsers from Edmund Tweedy Flanigan – Oct, 2022
Critical CSS? Not So Fast! from Harry Roberts – Oct, 2022
CSS tie-dye gradient backgrounds – Oct, 2022
Personal website redesign from Melanie Richards – Oct, 2022
Request for Comments: Sass Color Spaces @ Sass Blog – Sep, 2022
A long-term plan for logical properties? – Sep, 2022
Container queries in browsers! – Sep, 2022
I never let things be small – Sep, 2022
A whole cascade of layers – Sep, 2022
This content won't architect itself – Aug, 2022
No demo [website] reno – Aug, 2022
2 days of cordwainery – Jul, 2022
Body margin 8px – Jul, 2022
The gray areas of HWB color – Jun, 2022
Miriam, for the archive – Jun, 2022
Complex vs compound selectors – Jun, 2022
The spam has arrived – Jun, 2022
Am I on the IndieWeb yet? – Jun, 2022
My theatrical delusions – Apr, 2022
A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers @ CSS Tricks – Feb, 2022
Container queries explainer & proposal @ CSS Sandbox – May, 2021
Very Extremely Practical CSS Art @ CSS Tricks – Dec, 2020
An open CSS notebook – Nov, 2020
Custom Property “Stacks" @ CSS Tricks – Jun, 2020
Alcohol affects the frontal cortex @ Sommer Browning – Feb, 2020
Embracing the Universal Web @ CSS Tricks – Nov, 2019
CSS most normalizer-est – Nov, 2019
Introducing Sass Modules @ CSS Tricks – Oct, 2019
F*CSS – Aug, 2019
Not clear to me, an installation – Jul, 2019
Framed | Born to choose this way – Jun, 2019
Last Bullet, live music video – Apr, 2019
A Dark Plain, live music video – Apr, 2019
Guts | Let's Faint for Each Other – Feb, 2019
Rejecting maleness – Aug, 2018
Chosen family (thank you) – Jul, 2018
Mia's medical upgrade – Jul, 2018
Speaking of pride – Jun, 2018
More CSS Charts, with Grid & Custom Properties @ CSS Tricks – Aug, 2017
(Mis)gender – Jul, 2017
Stop Being Productive @ SuperYesMore – Jun, 2017
Fun with Viewport Units @ CSS Tricks – Jun, 2017
Gods on the Lam – Jun, 2017
Body & gender fragments – Mar, 2017
Trans Interviews & Photography from Transilient – Feb, 2017
Getting Started with CSS Grid @ CSS Tricks – Feb, 2017
Just Like That – Feb, 2017
Adaptation: SideSaddle/Myths @ Denver Quarterly v51.2 – Jan, 2017
Justice [under construction] – Jan, 2017
Some clarifications on trans language – Dec, 2016
Some kind of resistance tour – Dec, 2016
Loops in CSS Preprocessors @ CSS Tricks – Dec, 2016
An Interview with Miriam Suzanne @ CSS Tricks – Oct, 2016
Estrogentrification – Oct, 2016
Miriam, a how-to guide – Aug, 2016
Holes / SideSaddle midwest tour – Aug, 2015
Underground music showcase – Jul, 2015
Species of the stars – Jul, 2015
PROPHETIA VETITUM MUNDI – Aug, 2014
Pig Sez, song demo – Aug, 2014
I'm Not Ready To Go Yet, song demo – Jul, 2014
UMS day 4 (the end) – Jul, 2014
UMS day 3 – Jul, 2014
UMS day 2 – Jul, 2014
A Dark Plain, song demo – Jul, 2014
UMS day 1 – Jul, 2014
Media Archeology Lab, Artist in Residence – Sep, 2013
Stratified design – Apr, 2013
(re)Thinking on your feet – Mar, 2013
Five(5), song demo – Mar, 2013
Poetry readings are terrible – Mar, 2013
Explosive growth – Feb, 2013
Get curious – Feb, 2013
The Posture of Contour – Jan, 2013
Starting from a seed – Dec, 2012
Portrait of Sondra & Dan – Nov, 2012
Creative modes and cycles – Nov, 2012
Ordinary tools of thought – Oct, 2012
Portrait of Kitten Karlyle (nsfw) – Oct, 2012
Fuck the muse – Oct, 2012
Susy 1.0 release – Aug, 2012
Oddities & Curious Lands from Secret Technology – Jul, 2012
Sass striped backgrounds – Jul, 2012
I See Rockets, song demo – May, 2009

I’ve always loved Accordion Crimes and they pulled through again last night — full of dynamic surprise. Mako1972 has a similar post-punk thing going, which I always enjoy. Raven Jane and The Truth & Spectacle were excellent (from our unbiased opinion of Daniel in a hat). I’ve followed Ian Cooke for a while, and was glad to see him returning to a simpler, cello-driven sound. Only caught the tail-end of StaG, but they earned another listen. Saturn Cowboys was a raucous fun time, and Dragondeer got the whole room (including us) excited like no effect-heavy lead mandolin has ever done before.

This was a wonderful night of live/local music, but my favorite discovery was the intricate shoe-gazing soundscapes of Dave Devine Relay.