Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Daniel Davies comes from rock and roll royalty, given that his dad is The Kinks’ Dave Davies and his uncle is Ray Davies. He spent a good portion of his formative years touring the world with his dad before his family settled in Los Angeles. From there Davies spent time with his Godfather, the Master […]
Read More Daniel Davies : Ghost of the HeartSteve Moore is what I’d call a renaissance artist. He doesn’t stay in one lane and do some one trick pony show. He changes musical lanes like a master curator of sound, keeping with electronic music but within that realm morphs and shapes it to fit what mood strikes him. Power synth prog with Zombi […]
Read More Steve Moore : Eye of HorusIt was another scorcher of a weekend. Taking the dog out in minute intervals so he doesn’t stroke out, taking the dog out in minute intervals so I don’t stroke out, keeping the blinds shut so the place stays cool,…you know, in preparation for the future when we can no longer go outside without PPP […]
Read More Hot Weekend…Home Improvements…Flying SoloNYCs White Hills are one of those bands that never settles into one musical trip. Sure, their DNA is psych rock with a healthy dose of post/punk, Krautrock, and no wave thrown in for good measure. But the duo, led by guitarist/vocalist Dave W and bassist/vocalist Ego Sensation, are pulling from 50 years of an […]
Read More White Hills Return With ‘Beyond This Fiction’, Out 8/23; Listen To “Killing Crimson”Mark Oliver Everett has quietly amassed an impressive discography over the last 30 years, first with two albums under the moniker ‘E’ and then in 1996 debuting EELS. Despite the shift from singer/songwriter pop-inflected songs to a more gruff, alternative vibe both iterations of Everett’s curmudgeon poet laureate remained steadfast. Sad and melancholy but with […]
Read More Eels : EELS TIME!Timothy Showalter has been kicking around as Strand of Oaks since his 2009 debut Leave Ruin. Starting out with a folksy, singer/songwriter vibe he shifted focus into more synth and pop touches on the project’s breakthrough record Pope Killdragon. His Neil Young affectations were replaced by Tangerine Dream and Kate Bush as influences on his […]
Read More Strand Of Oaks : Miracle FocusWith every passing year and season I’m coming to the conclusion that heat is just not my friend. Granted, last January’s polar vortex certainly made me pine for warmer days(or at least temps in the single digits) but now that we’re currently in a heat wave I’m thinking single digits are doable. You Florida and […]
Read More I Do Not Like The HeatAt the last minute last Thursday I decided I was going to take Friday off. It wasn’t like I had any plans, it just hit me that I needed to take a 3-day weekend. Not much going on at work, and my son and his girlfriend were leaving at 7am Friday morning for Tennessee for […]
Read More Long Weekend…28th Wedding Anniversay…Father’s DayToday is the start of the official “hot” season around here. Temps are climbing into the upper 80s/low 90s and lots of humidity. I know my elder dog won’t like it, and I know I’m not gonna like it either. It’s supposed to stretch clear into next week and even get those “feels like” temps […]
Read More It’s Hot Out…So Stay In And Watch A Horror MovieI discovered Elephant9 a couple years ago via the great and powerful algorithm. Spotify was playing in the house while I did my Friday afternoon cleaning. Not sure what I was listening to, but it ended so the great Spotify algorithm started spitting like-minded artists out at me. One was a song called “Sojourn” by […]
Read More Elephant9 : Mythical River