Sometimes, You’re Just Sad

It’s been a pretty lousy last month if I’m being honest. Sick over my spring vacation, sharing that sickness with my elderly parents, one of my best friends and longtime co-worker has a heart attack and is out of commission for three months, and then there’s the month of May. May is one of those […]

Pye Corner Audio : Lake Deep Memory

The musical world of Martin Jenkins’ Pye Corner Audio is a vast and mysterious one. The music is low key, sparse, and filled with shadowy twists and turns. Dark ambient hung on skeletal beats like flesh to bone, as if building a creature from things unknown and thoughts unspoken. Eerie, melancholy, and oddly groovy; a […]

“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”

July, 2004. We were a family of four living a pretty great life. We’d always imagined that we would have 2 kids, a dog, house in the woods and jobs to keep the cupboards full and a roof over our heads. The year before we’d traded my wife’s 1994 Nissan Maxima in for a brand […]

Check-In: The Last Few Weeks(Vacation, Illness, And Even A heart Attack)

No, I didn’t have a heart attack. Let me go back a bit. The last time I checked in I was on vacation, sick with Covid. Yeah, I’ve had some stinkers when it comes to vacations. And honestly I’ve had worse than one where Covid was involved, but it still didn’t make for a great […]

Andre 3000 : 7 Piano Sketches

I think if you’re still waiting around for Andre 3000 to drop a new hip hop album, or crazier yet return to OutKast, you’re wishing upon a fading star. I think Andre 3000 would rather do anything else BUT rap. He dropped an out of left field ambient/jazz/experimental flute album two years ago. Regardless what […]

Keith Canisius Returns To The Worlds of Shortwave Broadcaster & Morph Stereo

Musician Keith Canisius has put out a steady run of guitar and Eurorack-based ambient/shoegaze/dream pop instrumental music over the last several years. Starting in 2020 with the drone/ambient/experimental world of Shortwave Broadcaster. Plugging in and playing, improvising and then swirling guitars, bass, synth, Eurorack and field recordings into ethereal tracks that seem to emanate from […]

Marine Eyes : Quiet Circle

I think we all carry something from our childhood into our adulthood. A simple thought, or a snippet of a dream that we never quite let go. It’s not something an adult mind would come up with. It only comes from the unsilenced imagination of a child. Something only a mind not completely bogged down […]

Viagra Boys : Viagr Aboys

First time I’d ever heard Sweden’s Viagra Boys was opening for Queens of the Stone Age. I had an idea of what a band called Viagra Boys would sound like, and my imagination did not disappoint. But what I didn’t expect was to like them as much as I did. The 6-piece Swedish post-punk band […]

Jonathan Sharp : Neon Night Ride

It’s 1984. You’re up late on a Friday night with a beer buzz and searching for something to fall asleep to. You pause on USA Up All Night and see the neon glow of L.A.; buildings shimmering in a dusk-lit landscape, twinkling lights like doomed stars pulsate in the inescapable push of night, and an […]

Causa Sui : In Flux

Causa Sui hit – to my ears at least – a career high with last year’s excellent From The Source. It picked up where 2020’s Szabodelico left off. Szabodelico was steeped in tropicalia vibes; clean guitar lines, moody keys, and delicate percussion and bass gave the album a very vibe-heavy feel. A sound that was […]

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