Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
On yesterday’s morning delivery from our plant to a local supplier I had stepped out of the company van and was hit with the smell of burning wood. In-particular, it was the smoke from a wood burning stove coming from a nearby house. That smell, along with burning leaves and the scent of a distant […]
Read More Dale’s HouseBy J. Hubner Photo by Victoria Renard Photography In just a very short amount of time the music of artist Xander Harris, known to friends, family, and his high school Marching Band instructor as Justin Sweatt, has made a pretty huge impression on me. Starting with his most recent album, 2017s Transmission Dust, then working […]
Read More The Musical World of Xander Harris : A Conversation with Justin SweattThere are very few bands that take me back to the 80s and my awkward teenage haircut more than Slayer. Over the last couple of years I’ve found myself falling down a satanic speed metal rabbit hole where I’ve been revisiting and adding to my collection some of the most important speed metal albums to […]
Read More Skeletons Of High SocietyLuis Vasquez seems like a guy with a lot of torment. He seems like a guy with a lot of existential turmoil to unpack. His work as The Soft Moon is a discography of pain, anger, and dark thoughts wrapped in a tattered post-punk bow. The music is always based in rhythm and percussive sway, […]
Read More The Soft Moon : CriminalWho is Xander Harris? I suppose if you’re a fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer you might think you know who Xander Harris is, but you’d only be partially correct. Xander Harris is the nom de plume of a fictional Joss Whedon character, yes, but it is also the nom de plume of Justin Sweatt, […]
Read More Xander Harris : The New Dark Age Of LoveIt was very early 2014. I recall I’d just been introduced to the wonderful world of Causa Sui and El Paraiso Records, the home of the Danish four-piece which is run by Causa Sui’s Jonas Munk and Jakob Skott. I was still pretty wet behind the ears when it came to what I would find […]
Read More Iron Nebulas & Cosmic Highs : Revisiting Jakob Skott’s ‘All The Colours Of The Dust’The right name can say a hell of a lot. The right name can say it all, really. Take Mythic Sunship, for example. That’s a name that leaves its mark. When it rolls off the tongue it feels as if it’s a statement of defining purpose. I imagine if there was an actual Mythic Sunship […]
Read More Cosmic Rupture : Riding To The World’s End With Mythic SunshipPeople only need me when they’re down and gone to seed – Mark E. Smith I can’t say I’ve been a Fall fan my whole life. I’ve really only gotten to know the world of Mark E. Smith the last 9 years or so. But in that time I’ve gotten to love this ever-curmudgeonly Brit with a […]
Read More Drink the long draught, for the Hip Priest : R.I.P. Mark E. SmithTy Segall is not the type of guy to sit on his laurels. He doesn’t put out an album and then sit, lay back and just coast on good reviews for awhile. It seems that usually by the time he puts a record out he’s already onto the next record, project, music obsession, etc. For […]
Read More Ty Segall : Freedom’s GoblinOccasionally I like a good dose of tongue firmly planted in cheek when it comes to horror/action/violent cinema. You get too much of that serious, brooding, bloody cinema and I think it starts to affect you. Like, you only want to eat organic food and drink purified water and you forget the pleasures of a […]
Read More Mayhem!….Bloody Mayhem!