Old wounds die hard. Last call.

Nothing like an old injury creeping back up and reminding you that yes, you are indeed mortal. I’ve had lower back problems for the better part of 30 years. Thank NOT lifting with your knees, lifting things you shouldn’t lift, and working on cement floors for most of your adult life. In 2016 it all […]

Protomartyr : Hotel Usona

Protomartyr have remained one of the most consistent post-punk/rock and roll bands over the last nearly 15 years. Along with bands like METZ and Preoccupations, Protomartyr have kept post-punk still an interesting corner of the music world. Not only a tight band, but singer Joe Casey is one of the best lyricists. He speaks like […]

Go Forth. Enjoy your Friday.

Never thought we’d get here. This seemed to be a particularly long week. Despite being busy nearly every day and going home good and wiped out, this week still feels as if it should’ve ended two days ago. This is the second week in a row where my wife told me on Wednesday that it […]

In my house of pain Top Jimmy is always hot for teacher. So jump

You have those all time records. The ones that no matter how many years, decades have passed you’re still entangled in those songs from your misspent youth. I was a pre-teen in the mid-80s, and I started buying albums(cassettes) when I was 10-years old. I was always a fanatic when it came to music. I […]

‘Five Albums’ : With zakè(Zach Frizzell)

I’ve been kind of bummed out about the state of the world. I guess “bummed out” might be too slight of a way to put it. For the last 10 years the world seems to have begun a slow slide into oblivion, and I’ve been hiding out in my little chunk of the universe hoping […]

Unreality

Things are getting weirder and weirder out there, folks. It’s getting to the point now where it’s hard to tell on the internet what -or who- is real and what’s some fabrication of some AI machine. I haven’t been on Elon Musk’s Incel website in at least a couple years. I’ve used Threads for a […]

zakè & Coppice Halifax : Tree Grid

Collaboration is the spice of creativity, as well as life. Of course being in a room alone with just your ideas, musical instruments, and a recording device can also be a completely satisfying experience, but when you can bounce ideas off of another creative mind there’s nothing more exhilarating. Having a like-minded soul building upon […]

Running out of hard drive space….

I used to be a well of useless information. I’d hold pointless facts about movies, music, books, TV shows, obscure childhood moments, bizarre elementary school dreams, and tossed-off conversations as if my life depended on it. Need to know about the short-lived TV series Automan starring Desi Arnaz, Jr? I’m your guy. What studio did […]

Getting closer to the chill…

I woke up Monday morning to a chill. Sunday was cooler than Saturday, so the AC was shut off and the windows opened. There’s a calming feeling that comes over me when the fall is just around the corner and the windows can be opened. The rustling sound of wind making its way through the […]

Beck : Ride Lonesome

If you’re a fan of sad Beck Hansen then you’re in for a treat with his new album Ride Lonesome. We have the 3rd record in a trilogy of sadsack Beck records, following Sea Change from 2002, then Morning Phase in 2014. These are the sad Beck songs, expertly produced to a finite sheen; spectral […]

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