Unknown Mortal Orchestra : Multi-Love

Ruban Nielson has some heavy stuff going on in his head. Multi-Love is the result of those heavy things. It’s also a celebration of the power of love and the power of music. It’s an emotional smorgasbord. Happy, sad, melancholy, reminiscent, confused, and overwhelming…sometimes in the same song. A lot has been said about the […]

When Tuesday Throws Rain At The Beach

Here I am, on a perfectly warm and non-moist day and I’m sitting inside writing and listening to music. Shouldn’t I be outside? Shouldn’t I want to be outside, slinging dirt or digging holes or pulling weeds or something? It seems like I should be anyways. Truth be told, I spent four hours outside yesterday […]

Mean Streets

Sorry you cinephiles, this isn’t a post about Martin Scorsese’s classic film. No, this is far less cool. So uncool that I’ll probably lose some longtime readers. Yes, what I’m going to write about will probably shatter quite a few preconceptions you all may have had about me. I’m not the debonair, suave, and dangerous […]

Shiggajon : Sela

It’s hard to describe what’s going on within the grooves of Shiggajon’s Sela. It’s hard to describe Shiggajon. Okay, not really. Shiggajon is a Danish music collective that makes music you might hear prior to the Rapture happening. Or moments before aliens descend onto this planet. Or possibly what you hear in your head during […]

Time Traveler : A Conversation With Musician J D Emmanuel

Last year was the year I fell hard for synthesizers. I’d always had a passing interest, but never took them all that serious. Hell, growing up in the 80s and listening to metal albums you could usually find in bold lettering in the liner notes of said albums “No synthesizers were used in the making […]

Metz : II

Metz seem to have found that perfect recipe for brash, explosive anger and have no plans of changing that recipe. Not even slightly. On their follow-up to their 2012 debut album the Canadian trio seemed to be on a mission of destruction and mayhem. That record took the blueprint of bands like Big Black, the […]

Rock ‘N Roll Andy Kauffman

Is there something wrong with Alex Calder? I mean, I listen to his albums and I really quite enjoy him. Weird, off-kilter pop music seems to be his thing. Songs that are catchy, yet there’s always something in there that seems kind of off. You’re waiting for the moment when this affable guy is going […]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Beats?

My musical tastes have run the gamut over the course of my 41 years. From when I was a kid in short pants soaking up the day’s popular hits in the backseat of my mom and dad’s boat of an Oldsmobile, to forcing Yngwie Malmsteen’s Odyssey down anyone’s ear holes within feet of my bedroom […]

Lasermetal : Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom

I’m sure you’ve all felt my absence in your lives, and I apologize for that. It’s been a busy few days on planet Hubnerion. The great meteor showers of 2015 took out nearly all of our solar towers, while electrical storms on the furthest tips of the great Jerky Canyons took out most of our […]

Mahler & Me

We made the drive to the Fort Wayne International Airport yesterday to drop my wife off. She flew down to Raleigh, North Carolina for training. It’ll be an all week affair down south, so the children and I are left to our own devices. There will probably be lots of nothing happening, which I’m grateful […]