‘Summerteeth’ Turns 25, Pye Corner Audio Worship, And Faex Optim Filling A BOC-Size Hole

25 years ago this past Saturday I was sitting in a mildly dumpy hotel room in Fresno, California wondering what the hell I was going to do with myself. I’d flown into town for work. I was Distributor Inventory Auditor for a Midwestern orthopedic company in the late 90s. In simple terms, I traveled to […]

I Could Use Some New Boards Of Canada Right About now

Last Boards of Canada album came out in 2013. It’s been 11 years since Tomorrow’s Harvest arrived and gave me hope for the future of electronic music. It was the first BoC album to come out since I’d gotten into them, which was 2008. Before that the last new full-length Boards album was 2005s The […]

Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, and Marta Sofia Honer : The Closest Thing To Silence

The best instrumental music takes you out of what you perceive to be your world and opens doors to new ones. It brings the curtain down on reality so that you can expand your mental and emotional horizons. Instrumental music doesn’t need words to guide you somewhere, as the composition built from instruments is the […]

Road Trip, BBQ, Sunday Jazz, Birthday Celebration

Weekend came and went as usual. The space/time/weekend continuum continues to baffle and astound my regular guy brain. I’ll never quite understand how five days feels like 10, while two days feel like an afternoon nap. And yet despite that glaring disturbance in the force I’m still 50-years old with a sizable 401-K, a nearly […]

Friday Check-In : March 1st Edition(Watching The Wheels)

Hard to believe it’s March 1st. I mean, if I’m being honest I’m still trying to catch up from Christmas. The fact that it’s now March of 2024 is kind of insane to me. The last four years all feel like a big, messy blur. Four years ago we were looking at the real possibility […]

zakè : B⁴+3

The latest from ambient sound wizard Zach Frizzell, aka zakè, is the enigmatic and widescreen effort B⁴+3. Originally known as B⁴, a 2023 Zakè Drone Recordings release that was a musical companion to art prints created by Frizzell, zakè felt that he wasn’t yet finished with this record. In fact, in describing that feeling he […]

Old Wounds, Slow Weekend, More Painting

I called off work on Monday. I’d been having lower back pain for a few days, which culminated Friday with a dull ache in my upper right leg and down to my knee. At first I thought I’d pulled a muscle in my leg, as I didn’t really have a lot of pain in my […]

Ivan The Tolerable Trio : Infinite Peace

Oli Heffernan, aka Ivan The Tolerable, isn’t one to chill and take some down time. He’s a musician on a mission, and that mission is to dive into the deep end of the pool and see how far down he can go. Dig deep and explore. His music is a crossroads of heady jams, psychedelic […]

Classical Wax : Albums I Bought On Looks Alone

When I first started collecting vinyl I padded my collection heavily with wax from the used bins. It was a good way to build the collection without sinking my bank account. But even used albums weren’t dirt cheap(unless you were pulling from milk crates underneath the record bins.) If they were too cheap then you […]

Idles : Tangk

Idles started out as this punk/pub hybrid of a band. You could hear the sound they were heading towards on their first two records, Brutalism(2017) and Joy as an Act of Resistance(2018), but the Bristol band were still finding themselves. It wasn’t until Ultra Mono(2020) that the post-punk stomp and singer Joe Talbot’s barking militant […]