KGB Nights

The early work of Oneohtrix Point Never just connects to me, man. His stoner, psychedelic ambient drones and wonky electronica from the early 2000’s to 2009 were assembled as a compilation called Rifts, which took albums Betrayed In The Octagon, Zones Without People, Drawn and Quartered, The Fall Into Time, and Russian Mind into one […]

Post-Covid RSD

So yesterday was part 1 of 2021 Record Store Day. The day where vinyl and music lovers gather at their local brick and mortar record shop and buy exclusive music; be it 12-inch vinyl, 45s, CDs, cassettes, box sets, or just to get out of the house on a Saturday morning to say hi to […]

Complex Distractions Presents : My Five Favorite Record Store Day Finds

So I’m sitting around waiting for civilization to fall into mass chaos and a chasm of insanity we have not seen before and I thought to myself, “Hmm, what should I write about this week?” This is something I do every Sunday(not the whole mass chaos/chasm of insanity jag), I work out what I’ll be […]

Blood & Guts & Soundtracks On Vinyl

Not much to report here today. There’s lots of things simmering on low heat at the moment, getting all the flavors just right. It’ll be a big week next week, so tune in. Besides gorging my brain on the MCU at the cinema tomorrow, I’m going to take the weekend and deep dive into Blood […]

Absurda : Metavari’s Fire Walk With David Lynch

Nate Utesch has quickly been proving himself to be one of the most creative electronic composers working today. The evolution of his band Metavari as a once Midwest post-rock outfit that played stages at SXSW to the one-man studio project seems to have been a seamless one. Though I don’t think anyone pines to be […]

Metavari Returns On RSD 2019 With ‘Absurda’

Nate Utesch has slowly built this majestic musical world over the course of the past 10+ years in Metavari. What began as a full blown group with guys spread across darkened stages creating dreamy post-rock-ish sonic landscapes with films projected behind them has turned into what it was meant to be from the beginning: Nate […]

Eric, Ron, and Me

Back in the mid-2000s there was a guy that started working at our facility named Ron. Now Ron was quite the character; shorter, boisterous, and always up for a good laugh. Ron was from Chicago originally and my guess back then was that he was in his mid-50s. He was African American and would often […]

RSD 2018 : Early Bird Gets The Weird-Shaped Vinyl

Every year when Record Store Day comes around I find myself in bed around 6:30 am on a Saturday morning wondering if I really want to get up out of bed and venture to a record shop and wait in the cold. With each passing birthday and newly sore muscle and joint I really ponder […]

Record Store Day 2018 : 11 Years Of Vinyl Love

I grew up with vinyl. Some of my first memories are of my dad changing records on a Zenith console stereo in the basement as my parents and their friends drank longnecks, smoked, and played pool all the while Led Zeppelin, The Doors, ZZ Top, and Three Dog Night spun on the turntable. I recall […]

Locust Accords and Erotic Rites : Alex Cuervo and Timothy Fife Talk ‘Communion’ Compilation

So if you’ve been paying attention over the past week, I’ve been talking a lot about this Record Store Day 2018 compilation coming out in just a couple weeks called Communion. The righteous duo of Darren Page(Burning Tapes) and Gary Dimes(All of Them Witches) who run Burning Witches Records together are throwing their synth-heavy hat […]