Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
There’s a few things that always make me feel better when I’m under the weather; watching horror movies, Chinese food, raspberry jello, and new records. I’ve covered all of them over the course of this two week stint at the Hotel Covid. Today is a special day for new records, as last night my good […]
Read More The Gentle Hum Of Anxiety : Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ ‘The Social Network’ S/TNeil Lord, aka Future Museums, was tapped to put together three different bands back in 2019 to be backing musicians for the great Damo Suzuki. Suzuki, of course from Can and a plethora of collaborations over the last 50 years in experimental music, was to play three distinct shows in the US. Austin, Dallas, and […]
Read More Future Museums : Damo’s DreamFresno, California, March of ’99. I flew into a dumpy little airport for work. My work consisted of me driving to various hospitals, storage lockers, and basements of sales guys wearing too much cologne and counting orthopedic implants that were on consignment from my employer. I was an inventory auditor, which meant I was paid […]
Read More “It’s For You I Swoon”: Wilco’s ‘Summerteeth’ Deluxe EditionMusician and composer Steve Roach is a legend in the ambient/new age music world. He started out as a Motorcross racer in his early 20s before being inspired by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis to teach himself to play the synthesizer. He released his debut album Now in 1982, and by 1986 he released […]
Read More Steve Roach : TomorrowI’ve heard a lot of different Steely Dan covers over the years. The Minutemen covering “Dr. Wu”, Wilco covering “Any Major Dude Will Tell You”, and even Zombi covering “Green Earrings”. All of those covers were great in their own special way, either for making the song their own or for sticking to the original […]
Read More “This Brother Is Free…I”ll Be What I Want To Be”: Callahan and Billy Cover The DanThere are a few bands that found the secret recipe from the get-to. They locked into their strengths and foundational DNA that bound them at the start of it all and were set on their path to reigning rock and roll glory. The Stones, Black Sabbath, Guided By Voices, Motorhead, The Ramones, and of course […]
Read More AC/DC : Power UpThe world has been upside down and topsy turvy since the beginning of 2020. Health crisis, political turmoil, racial and civil unrest in city streets, and common sense being replaced by clickbait and conspiracy theories, the world seems to be in one hell of a sorry state. The one constant light throughout this year for […]
Read More Causa Sui : SzabodelicoIt really was Wildflowers that opened my brain up to the genius of Tom Petty. Sure, I grew up listening to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Lots of great songs and that work alone puts him up at the top of the rock and roll pedestal with the artists that influenced him in the first […]
Read More Tom Petty : Wildflowers & All The RestDaniel Lopatin has been world building as Oneohtrix Point Never for over a decade now. His albums started as drone and ambient vibe fests that brought to mind bleak science fiction and dystopian landscapes. Druggy, psychedelic musical experiments with old, battered synths, samplers, looping stations, and guitar pedals. As ramshackle as that sounds, those early […]
Read More Oneohtrix Point Never : Magic Oneohtrix Point NeverWho is Stefan Bachmeier? Where does he come from? Is he a time-traveling synthesist following portals to other dimensions leaving albums of wobbly, heady synth music for us to find in various decades and universes? Is he a world famous musician working under an alias, corrupting frontal lobes and right hemispheres of the minds of […]
Read More Stefan Bachmeier : The Strange Worlds Of Stefan Bachmeier