The Space Jack Hummer

I’m not entirely sure what drew me to Ben Zimmerman’s The Baltika Years. It may have been the album cover, which was all white with what looked like confetti all over it. Maybe it was the fact that one of my new favorite record labels, Software, was putting it out. Or maybe it was the […]

A F*****n’ Rock Show: The War On Drugs at the Vogue, Indianapolis

You know, going to live shows was what my wife and I did. Even before she was my wife, we’d jump in the car and head out and see bands we loved live. The first band we ever saw together was Petra. Neither of us loved Petra. We were invited by my uncle to come […]

Headache City

Of all those horror soundtracks I’ve got in my collection, one of my favorites has to be Rob’s Maniac Soundtrack. It’s filled with all that 80s synth goodness, slick production, eerie moments, and mournful bouts of melancholy. You know, all those things that get the girls all hot and bothered. Am I right? Huh? Okay, […]

No Joy : More Faithful

I can’t remember the first time I heard No Joy. I know it was sometime in 2013 when they had just put out their excellent Wait To Pleasure. Something about that album was immediate and in-the-moment so I was compelled to have it. The guitar and vocal interplay between Jasamine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd has a […]

Bonsoir

Morality doesn’t exist. Only morale. -Hannibal Lecter Really nothing better than hearing these words when you walk in the door straight off of a day’s work, “Hey. You got a record in the mail.” Man, it’s like Christmas at some random time during the year. There’s a brown cardboard square with something very wonderful inside. […]

Alone and I

Seems like it’s been days since I sat down to write. In fact, it’s been three days. I’ve been outside the last two days doing years worth of procrastination landscaping. I know it’s much easier to do the work a bit more often, as opposed to waiting 4, 5 years and doing it all in […]

Eggs In A Briar Patch

What a weirdo, that David Byrne. Those oversized suits, the strange dance moves, and songs about psycho killers and discos. Jeez, who wants to listen that stuff? Well, I do. Now, anyways. It took me many years to fall under the spell of Mr. David Byrne. I grew up in the 80s so albums like […]

Phantasmagoria

There’s a handful of movies that have stuck with me clear back since I was an annoying asthmatic kid with one too many make-believe friends. Star Wars, The Exorcist, The Fog, The Shining, Dawn of the Dead, and Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. These were movies that had a real impact on me. It was never comedies […]

An Urge To Explore : Rasmus Rasmussen and Aerosol’s Electronic Wonderland

When you listen to the music of Aerosol you get the feeling of deep contemplation, or meditating in outer space. Getting lost in the cosmos. Getting lost in your own crazy head space. Aerosol’s sole member, Causa Sui keyboardist Rasmus Rasmussen, makes the kind of dense, vast electronic albums that fans of Boards of Canada, […]

Aerosol : Leave

Rasmus Rasmussen, keyboardist for the Danish music titans Causa Sui, likes to put out lush, synth-driven compositions when he’s not melting minds with his psych-rock brethren. Those songs are released under the name Aerosol. These songs are understated, quietly mesmerizing, and as engulfing as a tidal wave of analog circuitry and simple electronic beats. Each […]