This week, Cultured Code is giving their Things app away for free as the featured App of the Week on the App Store. Happy Things-giving! | Things Blog | Cultured Code As a special gift for Thanksgiving, Apple has chosen Things for...
Haulix has added some new features to their consistently improving content delivery and watermarking platform. Bandwidth Usage Alerts The system will now send you an email alert when you hit 80% bandwidth usage for the month. Bandwidth Usage Graphs The...
My friend Justin was sick when I met him. He was sick as long as I knew him. It was his sickness that brought him to Ohio way too often, where I would visit him at the Cleveland Clinic not...
My second entry in the 31 Days series, a follow-up to last year's column on Ridley Scott's Alien. This was originally posted on Under The Gun Review. Of all the holidays celebrated worldwide, no single day...
Today, Substream Magazine announced the cover of Issue 42 featuring Yellowcard. This is the second issue in a row in which I penned the cover story. Like my previous story with Caleb Shomo of Beartooth, I talked to Yellowcard frontman...
Unlike the Beartooth Story, this one was planned out in advance. Like the story about Caleb and his wife Fleur, this story centered around Ryan Key and his wife Alyona. It got very personal and I felt quite honored to...
This week’s episode features Jacob Tender, Digital Editor for Substream Magazine and former editor of Under The Gun Review.
I love Star Wars. I’d go so far as to say that I always have. I was shown Star Wars when I was still in my single digits and received my first lightsaber when I was probably about 6....
Today Substream Magazine announced issue #41 with Columbus, OH's Beartooth on the cover. I'm happy to say that I wrote the featured story. When I started at Substream, I didn't expect to be involved...
This was my first cover story for any magazine. The opportunity came up last minute, but I'm pleased with how it came out. I wrote more about how I got the story here. This story joined my feature...
This is long overdue, but I did want to write a short synopsis of my two weeks in Nashville last month. It was my first time in the city and I had an amazing time. I met a lot of...
In my last update, I informed you all that I had ceased employment with Ayzenberg Group and was looking for work elsewhere, ideally in music. Today I'd like to share with you that I've found such work with Substream Magazine.
In 2011, a professional friend of mine gave me a job opportunity. At the time, I was a college freshman with no car and no job. My gig at The Social Method helped me pay my way through college. In...
Yesterday during a conversation with a friend, I decided it was time to pull the trigger on buying the jacobtender.com and jacobtender.net domains. It seemed like the smart and grown-up thing to do.
This was a big one for me. As a long-time Bayside fan, getting to sit one-on-one with Anthony in the Grog Shop green room was really cool. We got coffee after. In December, I had a last-minute opportunity to interview...
‘Tis the season to make the most difficult choices I have to make all year. Seriously, my life is easy enough to make that statement true. I hate making these lists, more-so this year than any year previous. Yet I’...
This review was originally published by Under The Gun Review.
This interview comes with a little background story. At the time, I had recently started talking to a girl who had a few mutual friends. She liked music, so I though it would be cool to take her to a...
This year, I wrote two entries for 31 Days of Halloween. In addition to my love letter to Alien, I also wrote about one of my favorite home invasion flicks, You're Next. Of all the holidays celebrated worldwide,...
This was my first entry in the 31 Days of Halloween canon. Because I didn't write anything for the series in 2012, I contributed a second piece on You're Next as well. Of all the holidays...
Wrote this and left it in the drafts for later in the day that I wrote it (it was 4am). This was over a month ago. It's still mostly true.
This review was originally published on Under The Gun Review. Artist: The 1975 Label: Dirty Hit/Polydor Records (UK) Vagrant Records (USA) Genre: Pop, Rock, Indie Talkhouse, Drive Like I Do, Bigsleep, The Slowdown, The 1975. Once a name finally...
This review was originally published on Under The Gun Review. Artist: Parachute Album: Overnight Genre: Pop, Rock RIYL: The Cab, A Rocket To The Moon, The Summer Set In 2009, a band from Charlottesville, VA called Sparky’s Flaw changed...
This review was originally published by Under The Gun Review. Artist: Late In The Playoffs Album: Alive and On Your Own Genre: Pop-punk Label: Unsigned Late In The Playoffs’ new album, Alive & On Your Own, is a huge step...
This review was originally published by Under The Gun Review. Today, John Mayer did an odd thing. That is to say, John Mayer did something I didn’t expect from him with a few elements that made it strange. See,...
I remember this as my first remote interview, recorded over a frightening array of wires from first iPhone to my 2004 Dell desktop running Audacity. This was also the first time I got the personal cell number of an artist...
This review was originally published on Mind Equals Blown. What is “good” is totally subjective. I stand by that with a firm resolve. I write reviews with apprehension because of this fact. What is deemed quality by one can easily...
This review was originally published on Under The Gun Review. Artist: Fall Out Boy Album: Save Rock and Roll Genre: Pop/Rock Label: Island/Decaydance “We’re definitely writing all the time, so we’re not going to try to...
This review was originally published on Under The Gun Review. Artist: Coheed and Cambria Album: The Afterman: Descension Genre: Progressive Rock Label: Hundred Handed/Everything Evil It seems strange to write an album review for Coheed and Cambria so soon...
This review was originally published on Under The Gun Review. Yesterday, one of the most influential bands in my life made a huge return to music after a 4 year hiatus. Fall Out Boy came back, sending my Internet world...