Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
It feels to me like this has been the most inconsistent winter we’ve had in years. We had one stretch of truly brutal cold back in January and that was pretty much it. One big winter storm, plus some polar vortex-like frigid cold all in one weekend and week then that was it. By the […]
Read More Lousy Smarch WeatherMartin Jenkins, aka Pye Corner Audio, has been making haunted techno and eerie ambient music for well over a decade now. Releasing the cassette series The Black Mills Tapes in the early 2010s, then putting out a run of LPs that have proven influential and inspiring in the hauntology/library music genres. Pye Corner Audio is […]
Read More Pye Corner Audio Returns With ‘The Endless Echo’, Out 4/5; Listen To “Decision Point”25 years ago this past Saturday I was sitting in a mildly dumpy hotel room in Fresno, California wondering what the hell I was going to do with myself. I’d flown into town for work. I was Distributor Inventory Auditor for a Midwestern orthopedic company in the late 90s. In simple terms, I traveled to […]
Read More ‘Summerteeth’ Turns 25, Pye Corner Audio Worship, And Faex Optim Filling A BOC-Size HoleLast Boards of Canada album came out in 2013. It’s been 11 years since Tomorrow’s Harvest arrived and gave me hope for the future of electronic music. It was the first BoC album to come out since I’d gotten into them, which was 2008. Before that the last new full-length Boards album was 2005s The […]
Read More I Could Use Some New Boards Of Canada Right About nowThe best instrumental music takes you out of what you perceive to be your world and opens doors to new ones. It brings the curtain down on reality so that you can expand your mental and emotional horizons. Instrumental music doesn’t need words to guide you somewhere, as the composition built from instruments is the […]
Read More Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, and Marta Sofia Honer : The Closest Thing To SilenceWeekend came and went as usual. The space/time/weekend continuum continues to baffle and astound my regular guy brain. I’ll never quite understand how five days feels like 10, while two days feel like an afternoon nap. And yet despite that glaring disturbance in the force I’m still 50-years old with a sizable 401-K, a nearly […]
Read More Road Trip, BBQ, Sunday Jazz, Birthday CelebrationHard to believe it’s March 1st. I mean, if I’m being honest I’m still trying to catch up from Christmas. The fact that it’s now March of 2024 is kind of insane to me. The last four years all feel like a big, messy blur. Four years ago we were looking at the real possibility […]
Read More Friday Check-In : March 1st Edition(Watching The Wheels)The latest from ambient sound wizard Zach Frizzell, aka zakè, is the enigmatic and widescreen effort B⁴+3. Originally known as B⁴, a 2023 Zakè Drone Recordings release that was a musical companion to art prints created by Frizzell, zakè felt that he wasn’t yet finished with this record. In fact, in describing that feeling he […]
Read More zakè : B⁴+3I called off work on Monday. I’d been having lower back pain for a few days, which culminated Friday with a dull ache in my upper right leg and down to my knee. At first I thought I’d pulled a muscle in my leg, as I didn’t really have a lot of pain in my […]
Read More Old Wounds, Slow Weekend, More PaintingOli Heffernan, aka Ivan The Tolerable, isn’t one to chill and take some down time. He’s a musician on a mission, and that mission is to dive into the deep end of the pool and see how far down he can go. Dig deep and explore. His music is a crossroads of heady jams, psychedelic […]
Read More Ivan The Tolerable Trio : Infinite Peace