Long Weekend, New Music Coming Along, Election Week

The 5 days off was much needed. No major appliances or vehicles broke down, no family emergencies, and no injuries. So I’d say it was a successful fall break. Of course the King Crimson show was the highlight. Still reeling from that one, and probably will be for some time. Halloween was pretty uneventful. My […]

Halloween 2024 : Beat Tour, Spooky Movies, Staycation

All Hallow’s Eve is here. I’m sitting in the living room at 9:30 am on Halloween Day, rocking a solid 5 hours of sleep. No, it’s not that I had a bad night of sleep. It’s that we didn’t get home till 1:30 am last night and I didn’t end up falling asleep until after […]

Halloween Week

There’s something about Halloween that has always felt sacred to me. Of course being a kid and going door to door getting candy from neighbors and strangers alike was pretty magical. So was heading out with a friend or siblings and that feeling of ghoulish camaraderie as you all huddled in a group, fighting off […]

Good Weekend, Friend Hang, No Hot Water…And Tunes

It was a good weekend. Even if it wasn’t great it still would have been great since I only work two days this week and I’m off for my own little fall break. I’ll clock in and out Monday and Tuesday, then after that I’m off the rest of the week. Wednesday my wife and […]

Collins : VHS

We are less than a week away from Halloween. The best stuff always goes by way too fast, doesn’t it? We wait and anticipate the spooky season for most of the year that when October 1st arrives, November 1st shoves its way to the front of the line. I’ve been working on a little music […]

Tim Heidecker : Slipping Away

Tim Heidecker, one half of comedy duo Tim and Eric, is secretly a pop songwriter and musician. Well, it’s not really much of a secret these days. After releasing albums like What The Brokenhearted Do and High School the comedian/actor known for his absurdist humor and surreal characters has established himself as a great songwriter, […]

Radio

The radio was everything to me growing up. In that weird space between being a little kid listening to Disney records on a red, white, and blue Fisher Price record player to stacks of heavy metal cassettes being blasted through a GE boom box, the radio was my main source of musical nourishment. I was […]

“What’s Spinnin’?” Recent Vinyl Spins

In lieu of reviews or talking about my overwhelming existential fear of what’s going to happen in a couple weeks at the polls, I thought I’d talk about a handful of records I’ve recently spun at home. It’s something I used to do on here years ago but seem to have fallen out of the […]

Japandroids : Fate & Alcohol

Canada’s Japandroids were, at one time in the early 2010s, the saviors of rock n roll. While Williamsburg was the hub of all things indie – which included bands like Grizzly Bear, The National, and Dirty Projectors – Vancouver’s Japandroids(which included guitarist/vocalist Brian King and drummer/vocalist David Prowse) arrived in 2009 with Post-Nothing. That album […]

Monday’s Back…With A Vengeance

Another weekend come and gone. It’s like it never happened, sadly. That’s the story with most weekends, you’re so excited on Friday afternoon that you don’t take the time to stop and smell the roses so to speak. Saturday morning you may pull back on the brakes a bit, but then you get caught up […]