Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Other names tend to pop up when you think of jazz trumpeters. Of course Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham, and Louis Armstrong come to mind, as does Chet Baker and Lee Morgan. But there’s one cat that was born in Indianapolis, IN that for my money is one of the most underrated jazz trumpeters […]
Read More “Mr. Clean”I’m finding it incredibly hard to believe we’re already in August. This year has been moving at an incredibly fast pace. Seems like it was just February, while March through June was merely a blur in the rear view. We’re already nearly a month past our July trip to Colorado. A couple weeks ago we […]
Read More Post-American DreamThe last Radiohead album was 2016s A Moon Shaped Pool. The last before that was 2011s The King Of Limbs. That was 5 years between albums. With Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s current project The Smile they have released two albums plus two live LPs over the last two years. Now that’s some seriously inspired […]
Read More The Smile Return With “Don’t Get Me Started”There’s nothing worse than being sick in the throes of summer. Obviously it’s always a bummer when you’re sick, but at least in the fall or winter the outdoors seems to mimic how you’re feeling on the inside; frigid and shaky, and the gray, wet, muddy landscape looks a lot like how you look on […]
Read More Touch Me, I’m SickJustin R. Cruz Gallego, aka Tacoma-based musician known as J.R.C.G. defies a tag to any sort of genre. Listening to his Sub Pop debut Grim Iconic…(Sadistic Mantra) you’re hit in the chest with serious rhythmic and groove intentions. He locks into his Latin roots and lays down some seriously heady percussive trips, but on top […]
Read More J.R.C.G. : Grim Iconic…(Sadistic Mantra)Greetings. Just a quick one to share yesterday’s vinyl haul from my friends at Karma Records of Warsaw. I was able to snag three out of the five records John at Karma had waiting for me. And when I mentioned what I was picking up I forgot one, Black Sabbath’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath! Black Sabbath […]
Read More Friday’s HaulHello all. Been a minute since we just sat down to chat. I’ve mainly been listening to a lot of music lately which has proven fruitful, even therapeutic. It’s been kind of a whirlwind couple weeks, what with that crazy week in Colorado and all that happened there. Happy to be home and not have […]
Read More Busy Couple Weeks, Vinyl Fever, Lots To CelebrateAt the end of my freshman year of high school the supergroup Mr. Big dropped their debut, self-titled album. Supergroup you say? Well, if you were a 15-year old fledgling guitarist that worshipped at the alter of Vai, Satriani, and Gilbert then yes, they were a supergroup. The band consisted of David Lee Roth’s former […]
Read More Mr. Big : TenIt’s been over 10 years since I first found that magical passageway that led to the door of El Paraiso Records, the Danish record label run and curated by Causa Sui members Jonas Munk and Jakob Skøtt. These two have built a library of sound with El Paraiso Records that is layered in progressive, thoughtful […]
Read More Jazz/Psych Freak Outs ensue On Lotus’ Excellent “Synthbuljong”; Debut LP Out 8/30 Via El Paraiso RecordsChris Cohen is one of those musicians/songwriters that seems to ride a completely different wavelength than the rest of the world. As a collaborator he’s worked with everyone from Deerhoof to Ariel Pink to Cass McCombs to Weyes Blood. But as a solo artist is where his magic truly lies. His solo work feels aged […]
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