Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Like a bad penny, or maybe a cursed penny, Monday has returned. Seriously, the fact we have to spend the majority of our lives wasting 40 hours out of the total 168 hours we get in a week at work is preposterous. Nearly a quarter of our week is spent doing something we really don’t […]
Read More Monday Check-In, 3/3/25 : Birthday Weekendzakè, aka Zach Frizzell, is a musical explorer. This is something he’s proven time and time again over the course of the last several years as a solo artist; as well as collaborator, label runner, and all around thoughtful creative. He never seems to take for granted the time he spends composing blissful, long form […]
Read More zakè : CaelumWe bought the “blue beast” in the summer of 2004. Well actually, we leased it in the summer of 2004. The year before we’d traded in my wife’s 1994 Nissan Maxima for a 5-speed manual 2003 Honda Civic. We had two daughters, 3 and barely 3 months old, and were ready to trade up to […]
Read More BeaterWill Wiesenfeld, aka Baths, has been making intricate, emotionally raw, and pop-leaning albums for 15 years starting with his debut Cerulean in 2010. His music tows the line between electronic pop and experimental music as Wiesenfeld covers viscerally raw and emotional lyrics under layers of tactile percussion and light synths. You listen to a Baths […]
Read More Baths : GutThe weekend was a pretty decent one. Back in February of 2018 my wife and I headed up north to Kalamazoo, MI for the annual Kalamazoo Art Fair. I can’t remember how she found out about it, but we booked a room at a hotel for the Friday night before and headed up after work […]
Read More Monday Check-In, 2/24/25 : Kalamazoo Art Fair, Grinders, Outdoor WalksTrevor Powers, aka Youth Lagoon, seems to be making up for lost time. After taking a several years hiatus from his main music project and releasing records under his own name, Powers brought Youth Lagoon back into the sunlight. It seems a serious health crisis put things into stark perspective and allowed Trevor to see […]
Read More Youth Lagoon : Rarely Do I DreamZakè Drone Recordings was born out of a time of unknowns and uncertainties five years ago in 2020. While the world was isolating and social distancing, musician and label head Zach Frizzel(zakè) started an offshoot of his home label Past Inside The Present, a label built on a community of like-minded creatives. Zakè Drone Recordings […]
Read More Benoît Pioulard, Viul, From Overseas, zakè, Marc Ertel, Wayne Robert Thomas : KoseligIt’s a great feeling growing a record collection. Sure, it’s great growing a CD, cassette, 8-track, phonograph, etc…collection as well. But for the purpose of this long-winded post I’m talking about vinyl. I had records as a kid and in my early teens, but for about 16 years my obsession was with CDs. From 1992 […]
Read More Keep It FreshMan, it was a lazy weekend. It’s not like I usually have jam-packed weekends anyways, but this past Valentine’s Day weekend was especially sloth-like. Besides running to town Friday afternoon for a few things, I never left the homestead. Friday night I had a couple beers and started the Stephen King miniseries Rose Red. It’s […]
Read More Monday Check-In, 2/17/25 : “Lazy Weekend”My wife and I started dating in January of 1991. It was our Junior year of high school. I wasn’t much of a teenage lothario. Things got off to a great start when I started middle school and had two girlfriends within two months of entering Warsaw Middle School. Nothing to write home about. The […]
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