Complex Distractions Presents : JHubner’s Top 10 Albums of 2018

It’s been a long road, but we’ve made it. Revisiting, revising, re-thinking, and rediscovering a good portion of what I listened to this year in order to find a reasonable order of importance(to me, anyways.) My top ten albums were pretty obvious to me, as most of them were in constant rotation from the moment […]

Complex Distractions Presents : JHubner’s Favorite Albums of 2018 Part Three

I rather enjoy talking about the passions in my life. Whether it be books that inspired me or films that rewired my brain or records that changed me for the better, I can get lost in the prose. Obsessing over the details has been my modus operandi since I was in short pants. I’ve always […]

Perfect Score : Favorite Film Soundtracks of 2018

It’s been an equally exciting year at the cinema as its been in the record shop. I’ve seen some amazing films(either at the theater or at home.) Honestly, it’s been a pretty amazing year for films and the scores written for them. Of course I find myself wishing I could get to the theater more […]

Honorable Mentions

Before I get to my top 20 I wanted to mention a few albums, that while they didn’t make my top 50, I did enjoy them quite a bit. With so much music hitting my ears this year, there’s always a handful of great records that I just don’t spend as much time with. Revisiting […]

Complex Distractions Presents : JHubner’s Favorite Albums of 2018 Part Two

As I revisit the music of 2018 I’m pretty amazed at the quality of the long players this year. Albums are becoming more and more of an experience. It’s not just the music(though that is a major factor.) Albums overall this year have become and all-encompassing world where we can get lost in. Solid compositions, […]

Complex Distractions Presents : JHubner’s Favorite Albums of 2018 Part One

I was never the kind of music listener that could sit down at the end of the year and compile lists of records that I loved. I could tell you I loved this record and that record, and that one I listened to a hell of a lot, but to sit down and break it […]

E.A. Pooman : 2012-2018

After over half a decade of writing about local northeast Indiana artists and general cranky indignation towards the outside world at large, I regret to inform you of the passing of music writer E.A. Poorman. He passed away yesterday at the ripe old age of 6 and some odd months old. He wrote for the […]

2018 : The Year of The Record Label

Sitting down and making lists of records may not sound like fun to some, but it is to me. I don’t follow sports, I’m not a triathlete training for my next swim across the English Channel, nor do I hunt as a hobby. I’m too fidgety for gaming as well. My thing is music. It […]

Jeff Tweedy : WARM

Jeff Tweedy comes across as the sage dude quietly sitting at a table in some nondescript cafe, reading a tattered copy of George Saunders’ CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and drinking a vitamin water. Baggy jacket, frumpy hat covering a head of wild hair, and a beard you want to tell him to please shave. Even […]

Writing and Mood Swings

For the most part I keep the writing on Complex Distractions focused on those things in art and commerce that move me. Records, books, films, art, and all those other things that fall under the category of “waste of time” in most public school systems anymore. That’s the stuff that drove me to start writing […]