El Paraiso Records Readies Reissue of ‘Chicago Odense Ensemble’

With a new year comes a new you…and new records. But January is what I call the slow season. Winter hits, things come to a bit of a crawl on the new release front. You’re still a bit woozy from everything that came the year before(and all those year-end lists that crazy people obsessively write.) […]

A Few Words From Management

The new year always starts pretty slow for me. I don’t know what it is, but I find myself lacking in words to type, stories to tell, and music to discuss. It could be that those final couple weeks of December are a huge push to discuss the previous year’s triumphs and put them in […]

Revisited : Night Flights ‘Night Flights Vol. 1’

2014 was a very strange year for me. It began with one of my best friends losing his oldest daughter in a car accident in January. In May my mother-in-law died suddenly. Two days later we flew to Colorado for an amazing four days in the Rocky Mountains to go to a wedding and contemplate […]

Revisited : Justin Sweatt’s ‘Say Your Goodbyes’

This album was originally reviewed back in March of 2018. Justin Sweatt self-released Say Your Goodbyes digitally via his Bandcamp page. It is now getting a physical release courtesy of Night Rhythms Recordings out of Austin, Texas. The album is Justin’s first album released under his own name, as opposed to his former stage name […]

Cinema in 2018

Well if there is something that I’m truly lacking(besides a home gym and wheatgrass smoothies in the morning) it would be my butt in a theater seat on the semi-regular. I’ve got no problems with keeping up on music as it’s been a habit since I was a pre-teen. It’s second nature. I used to […]

For Auld Anxiety

New Year’s Eve, 2018. Well this is the day where everyone lays it all out, counts their chips, and looks at how they did in the current year of our Lord. “How’d I do? Did I live up to those resolutions from last year? Was I successful enough? Creative enough? Did I meet new people […]

Miracle On U.S. 30

I’m not much of a believer in the mystical and magical. I don’t look at fantastical events and think of some divine intervention, or a prayer was answered. For all the good and bad that happens, and happens in a miraculous way, I see it as either good luck or bad luck. Yes, I view […]

Complex Distractions Presents : JHubner’s Top 10 Albums of 2018

It’s been a long road, but we’ve made it. Revisiting, revising, re-thinking, and rediscovering a good portion of what I listened to this year in order to find a reasonable order of importance(to me, anyways.) My top ten albums were pretty obvious to me, as most of them were in constant rotation from the moment […]

Complex Distractions Presents : JHubner’s Favorite Albums of 2018 Part Three

I rather enjoy talking about the passions in my life. Whether it be books that inspired me or films that rewired my brain or records that changed me for the better, I can get lost in the prose. Obsessing over the details has been my modus operandi since I was in short pants. I’ve always […]

Perfect Score : Favorite Film Soundtracks of 2018

It’s been an equally exciting year at the cinema as its been in the record shop. I’ve seen some amazing films(either at the theater or at home.) Honestly, it’s been a pretty amazing year for films and the scores written for them. Of course I find myself wishing I could get to the theater more […]