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 […]

Mastodon : Marrow Deep

After Mastodon parted ways with longtime guitarist/songwriter Brent Hinds it seemed an era was at an end. The metal quartet had made their mark on the metal community for 2 decades, releasing forward-thinking records like Leviathan, Blood Mountain, and Crack The Skye. These were albums that towed the line between speed metal, prog, and punk […]

Sleep : Hempispheres

Sleep are absolute legends. Not only did the trio -which included Al Cisneros on bass, Matt Pike on guitar, and Chris Hakius(later Jason Roeder) on drums- help define stoner and doom metal in one fell toke…I mean, swoop, but they showed how heavy and loud a three-piece can be. After their game-changing album Dopesmoker, the […]

Ty Segall : Chrome

For the most part you know what to expect from a Ty Segall album. It used to be that one would arrive every year, if not even sooner than that. You could count on Tinnitus-inducing fuzz volumes, drum freakouts, and Ty doing his best to sound like someone singing while melting in lava at the […]

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