Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
On our way home yesterday from our stay at the Oakwood Resort we made a stop outside the small town of New Paris, IN to Defries Garden. It’s a small river preserve county park in Elkhart County. It’s actually the spot our soon-to-be 23-year old daughter had her senior pictures taken in the spring of […]
Read More Side Quest To Defries GardenGetting away from your normal surroundings is a good thing. Sometimes just a change a scenery – be it a week or just a few hours – can be just the thing you need to reboot and recharge. Now, I’m the first to tell you that I’m a homebody. My house is a home, and […]
Read More Wilco In Fort Wayne…Night At The Oakwood Inn Resort…Getting Out Of Your Own Head13 years. It has been a whopping 13 years since the great Scottish electronic brother duo Boards of Canada have released a new album. Tomorrow’s Harvest arrived in June of 2013 after another long turn between albums with their last album The Campfire Headphase coming out in 2005. I get it. Their records are worlds […]
Read More Boards Of Canada Return And Now I Feel CompleteMusician and producer Jonas Munk has remained pretty busy these last few years. Between releasing music with Causa Sui, ambient solo works, and putting out records with Auburn Lull’s Jason Kolb as Billow Observatory, he’s leaving a wide swath of sonic endeavors for us to get lost in. And let’s not forget running record label […]
Read More Manual : True BypassReinvention is a tricky thing to get right. You have to balance it equally with what came before while still moving and evolving forward. People want their favorite artists and bands to change…but not too much. Hardcore fans aren’t easy to please. In fact, they can be their favorite bands own worst enemy. Enter Nine […]
Read More Nine Inch Noize : Nine Inch NoizeIt has officially been one week since I returned home from a 6 day, 5 night stay in Parkview Regional Med Center for a deadly high blood pressure. A combo of ignorance on my part and a healthy dose of work-related stress brought me to a staggeringly 220/180 BP. That’s stroke alley right there, and […]
Read More Closer To My HeartStephen Bruner, aka bass extraordinaire Thundercat, is either you flavor or not. Anybody that digs the futuristic pop/jazz/funk flavors of an album like Drunk or Thundercat’s maestro playing on albums by Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington, Justice and Tame Impala will no doubt continue to worship at the alter of Thundercat’s immense bass contributions […]
Read More Thundercat : DistractedAfter five days in the hospital and one whole day in the ER I finally was able to come home Thursday afternoon. You really take for granted the quiet of your own home; the whisper of air emanating from the furnace vent, the subtle hum of ceiling fans, and just those ghostly whooshes of the […]
Read More HomeHello everyone. I’m reaching out from my lovely room at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Why am I in a hospital room in the cardio unit of a major hospital you ask? Well, simply put last Friday I was in the throes of heart failure. Turns out that after three months of […]
Read More Greetings From Room 1139Flea(aka Michael Balzary) has been a permanent fixture in the world of alternative rock for over 40 years, ever since the Red Hot Chili Peppers dropped their self-titled debut album in 1984. Flea has always been a standout in the band, taking slap bass straight into punk rock aggressiveness. But as the years moved on […]
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