Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
These last couple of days I’ve really had the desire to play guitar. It’s a desire I had all the time since about the age of 12 til around a few years ago. I think about guitar everyday, but the time to slip away downstairs for an hour or so to plug in has dwindled. […]
Read More Electric GuitarGustaf may not be a band you’ve heard of yet, but I think that’s about to change. The 5-piece art rock/post-punk outfit hails from New York City and were formed in 2018. They’ve built a reputation around NYC as a hard working, fun band that has gotten the attention of Beck, James Chance, and have […]
Read More Gustaf Drop Debut Single “Mine”Christmas, 1990. I was 17-years old and my Christmas list consisted of just a few very important items: Alice in Chains’ Facelift, Super Mario 3, Soundgarden’s Louder Than Live videotape, and Jellyfish’ Bellybutton. There were some socks and a bag of peanut M&Ms, as well as a bottle of Brut 33 in my stocking. Under […]
Read More “If Words Could Speak They’d Mean Even Less”With the passing of Eddie Van Halen yesterday comes the release of the first new AC/DC music since 2014s Rock or Bust. Call it the circle of life, transition, or whatever you want, but next to Van Halen, AC/DC were one of my first big band obsessions in the 80s. Another band that got stuck […]
Read More AC/DC Return With “Shot In The Dark”; ‘Power Up’ Drops November 20thEveryone has their “entry” Van Halen album, at least those of us that grew up in the late-70s and 80s. Oddly enough it wasn’t an older brother or that dude at the record shop that always looked tired and smelled like incense that got me into Van Halen at the age of 5. It was […]
Read More EVH 1955-2020I love those little moments in life that surprise you. Not like people jumping out of the closet yelling “Surprise!” at a birthday party. Surprises that the universe offers up every once in a while. Like, a bout of insomnia leads you to turn on the tube at 2am and stumble across a classic movie […]
Read More Dungeon Electro Doom : Erik Enocksson’s ‘Apan’Bluetech works in the warm and inviting world of analog and modular synth music, going for more dance floor and techno vibes. The lush world that fills his albums feels like a sonic cleanser from the world outside; a circuital bath meant to wash away the negative static we encounter on a daily basis. On […]
Read More Bluetech : Underwater CitiesAndy Fosberry makes visual music. His albums are filled with a series of emotional sketches. Fosberry works in film scoring, but even when it’s not for someone else’s vision the music feels cinematic. Vast soundscapes that feel like grand orchestrations one minute, the next they’re intimate swaths of piano and strings. But always with a […]
Read More Andy Fosberry : When Comfort Is StrangerIn 1968 Thelonious Monk was in poor health, with little money in the bank, and sadly seen in the jazz world as “stale” and “out of touch” by the jazz snobs at Downbeat Magazine(the same ones that thought Miles Davis was violating jazz protocol with the masterpiece Bitches Brew.) Thelonious Monk, the man who just […]
Read More Thelonious Monk : Palo AltoOneohtrix Point Never came into my life at just the right time. 2013 saw the release of Warp Records debut R Plus Seven and also saw me fall heavily for Daniel Lopatin’s musical world. I deep-dived most of 2014 through his early albums and could not get enough of his psychedelic ambient and drone-y synth […]
Read More Daniel Lopatin Returns With Magic Oneohtrix Point Never