Africa/Brass

This is spinning tonight. Been in a heavy jazz mood lately. I think it’s the leaves changing, the air cooling, and dusk hitting sooner in the evening. Fall makes me want to spin Coltrane, Davis, Monk, and Tyner. Most people correlate jazz with the color blue. Not me. I think of autumn hues when I […]

Living in Quadraphonic

I stated a couple days ago that I took some time to re-arrange my studio. Well, I thought I’d expound on that a bit. You see, I like re-arranging…and using words like “expound”. It makes me feel special. Every so often the music studio starts to feel a little stale to me. I can see […]

To Here Knows When

I’ve been listening to the My Bloody Valentine remasters a lot lately. So much so that I’m actually starting to tell the difference between disc one(remastered from the original tape) and disc two(mastered from the original 1/2 inch analogue tapes) of ‘Loveless’. I’m preferring disc two. It seems to be more prominent in the mid-range, […]

Technical Difficulties

The interweb is giving me fits tonight. I can’t stream, it intermittently drops, and when I go to do some serious writing it just freezes up on me. I wanted to work on some reviews, and talk about all the fun things going on around here. But no. So here’s hoping all is well. Hopefully […]

The Buried Life

Finally got my hands on this excellent follow-up to Medicine’s debut ‘Shot Forth Self Living’. ‘The Buried Life’ is a smorgasbord of noisy pop, teeth-rattling guitar squall, and Jesus and Mary Chain-like aural shenanigans. I honestly don’t get why they weren’t any bigger than they were. Hell, other than knowing their song on ‘The Crow’ […]

Whirr’s Around

So I get out of work and go sweat about five years off of my life at the gym. I came home to see a package arrived from Graveface Records. It was my Whirr Around 180 gram vinyl! Nice way to smooth over another fantastic day at work. I opened the package and not only […]

Saturday’s view from the porch…

Man, it’s a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. Groceries are bought, the house is cleaned, and the lawn mowed. Sitting on the porch with some ice water trying to bring my body temperature down to normal. I mean it’s beautiful and all, but it’s also pretty damn hot in the sun. There’s sweat where there shouldn’t be […]

My Favorite Albums of 2013: Six Months In

We are officially halfway through the year. A little past that point, actually. Since we spoke last time Easter, Memorial Day, and the Fourth of July have passed. We’re only a month away from the final episodes of Breaking Bad, there was that whole Game Of Thrones thing, and the wonderful James “Tony Soprano” Gandolfini […]

S**t For Sale

Yep, it’s that time of year again. Time for our annual, or semi-annual, or whenever we feel Iike getting rid of a bunch of crap garage sale. Come one come all. See the amazing ten year old Oshkosh jeans…only 1.50!! And look, is that a well worn Barbie with nappy hair? You bet, and it […]