Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
This feature was initially posted in a local Midwest magazine in August of 2018. There is some dated material here, but also some great info that was edited out for publication. I felt it was a great piece about an amazing band. Enjoy. -J. Hubner Fort Wayne has plenty of guys and gals that work […]
Read More Get Some Perspective : Streetlamps For Spotlights, Jason Davis, and a Millennium SummerBrothers Carson and Erik Lund have a good thing going. The LA-based duo make the kind of music that buzzes with anticipation and mild anxiety. They create the push and pull of darkness that’s just around the corner; a breakup, personal tragedy, the existential dread of the unknown. Fortunately the Lunds know how to make […]
Read More Mines Falls Premieres The Dark And Brooding “From Behind Glass”; Album Out 9/18There’s an adventurous spirit with Indianapolis-based musician/songwriter Mark Tester’s new album Super Hiss. More than a collection of songs, it’s a vast gallery of passing thoughts and sparks of creativity captured on tape. Short clips of guitar, synth, and synthetic instruments derived from floppy disk. Pop-inflected psychedelic vignettes that feel like waking from a vivid […]
Read More Mark Tester : Super HissForward-thinking record label Azure Vista Records has been home to some truly awe-inspiring albums since its inception back in early 2017. Much like Windham Hill and ECM in the 70s, Azure Vista Records is about taking you out of your reality and dropping you into something deeper and headier. New Age(Jonas Munk), Ambient(Billow Observatory), electronic(Quaeschning […]
Read More Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea ready ‘Liberamente’; Listen To Title TrackAustin-based experimental producer and Holodeck Records artist Dylan Cameron returns with a brand new single “Dust Lust”, part of Holodeck Records single series. “Dust Lust” is pure visceral movement. A steady but intricate dance floor track that pushes the boundaries of textural sonic production and the artistic ease of just letting go and moving. Cameron […]
Read More Dylan Cameron Returns With The Propulsive “Dust Lust”Ogre’s brand new long player Gates of Nessus, which is the second release from Tom McDowell’s Library of the Occult record label, is described as “ambiences and mood music for deep dungeon crawling, pen and paper RPGs, and cult paperback fantasies of yester-decades.” I’ve never dungeon crawled and was never much of a fantasy dice […]
Read More Ogre : Gates of NessusSo are you looking for something to get completely lost in? Something disconnected from the mainframe where time and space and inhibition have no place? Then welcome to the world of Proto Droids. Cybernetic World is that digital bridge between The Man-Machine and Madonna. Pure future electro-funk at the ready for any randy droid wanting […]
Read More Proto Droids : Cybernetic World“Post Energetic Music for the Positive Nihilism Movement” The 60s were such a tumultuous time that the 70s was a decade filled with pseudo gurus and self-help hippies trying to start their own enlightenment movements. Compounds and dilapidated halls where the lost and disenfranchised could seemingly become part of a flock of like-minded and spiritually […]
Read More Get Lost In New Frontiers’ Serene “Cluster” Video; EP Drops 9/4The Lodgers is a 2017 gothic horror film written by David Turpin and directed by Brian O’Malley. It’s a turn-of-the-century tale about twins, a brother and sister, doomed to spend their days in their family’s crumbling estate due to a curse. At night the home becomes overrun by these dark, watery presences known as “The […]
Read More The Lodgers : Original Motion Picture SoundtrackAs an awkward teenager I found most of my heroes in guitarists. Middle school was littered with cassettes of guys with names like Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony MacAlpine, Steve Howe, Vinnie Moore, Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker and Marty Friedman. Every time I picked up a Guitar magazine I’d flip to the back of the magazine and […]
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