Future Museums Goes Ethereal With “Rabbit in Passing”

Neil Lord is the kind of artist that looks for some kind of spiritual release every time he composes a song. His work as Future Museums has always been based in the Krautrock/Komische/Berlin School fundamentals of music; building hazy, dense, and strikingly transcendent compositions that act as portals to quieter, contemplative headspaces. Whether as Future […]

Complex Distractions Presents ‘Flyover Sounds’

I’ve been writing about music for almost nine years now. I started this site in December of 2011. Within these nine years I’ve spent an ample amount of time talking about “local” bands. Bands and artists that while may not live in my zip code, I could easily meet them for coffee or a beer […]

The Flaming Lips : American Head

The Flaming Lips are one of the great American rock and roll bands. With Wayne Coyne at the helm they’ve been transforming, expanding, and regenerating musical limbs for over three decades. The fearless freaks from Norman, Oklahoma, Coyne and Co hit their stride in the mid-90s and at their dimmest point in their career with […]

The Incidental Crack : Before The Magic

What is The Incidental Crack? Well, imagine those moments either just as sleep hits or as you’re coming out of it. Those twilight minutes where the outside world intermingles with your lucid sleep. The sound of a television in another room makes its way into that midnight float, or the break of sunlight lights the […]

Rival Consoles : Articulation

Ryan Lee West makes the kind of electronic dance music that doesn’t really feel like dance music. There’s movement, rhythm, and grooves easily fallen into, but the sonic landscape feels more contemplative. West builds worlds on his albums as Rival Consoles, and starting back on 2015s Sonne EP, West began a new way to create […]

Existential Fear and the Great Unknown

Been having some anxiety flair ups the last couple weeks. Out of nowhere it feels as if the bottom of my stomach falls out and my brain feels as if its stretching like saltwater taffy into non-existence. It’s the dread of something right behind me that I can’t see. Something looming, ominous and dangerous, just […]

Uncomfortable Conversations : ‘The Voice of the Voiceless’ Speaks Volumes

At the end of May this year Black Lives Matters protests took place at the Allen County Courthouse in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. What began as peaceful protests turned into violence and chaos as the Fort Wayne Police Department began pepper spraying and tear gassing protesters, unprovoked. A three-year old was tear gassed, a 21-year […]

Get Some Perspective : Streetlamps For Spotlights, Jason Davis, and a Millennium Summer

This feature was initially posted in a local Midwest magazine in August of 2018. There is some dated material here, but also some great info that was edited out for publication. I felt it was a great piece about an amazing band. Enjoy. -J. Hubner Fort Wayne has plenty of guys and gals that work […]

Mines Falls Premieres The Dark And Brooding “From Behind Glass”; Album Out 9/18

Brothers Carson and Erik Lund have a good thing going. The LA-based duo make the kind of music that buzzes with anticipation and mild anxiety. They create the push and pull of darkness that’s just around the corner; a breakup, personal tragedy, the existential dread of the unknown. Fortunately the Lunds know how to make […]

Mark Tester : Super Hiss

There’s an adventurous spirit with Indianapolis-based musician/songwriter Mark Tester’s new album Super Hiss. More than a collection of songs, it’s a vast gallery of passing thoughts and sparks of creativity captured on tape. Short clips of guitar, synth, and synthetic instruments derived from floppy disk. Pop-inflected psychedelic vignettes that feel like waking from a vivid […]