Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
As a kid I never saw my paternal grandparents as much as my maternal grandparents. My mom’s mom I saw the most because my mom was really close to her mom. We’d spend many summer days at my grandma’s house on the lake. We’d fish, take the pontoon out, go get lunch at the Streamliner […]
Read More Danish Butter Cookies, Cigarettes, And ResentmentHow’s everybody doing? It’s ‘Hump Day’, which in my world I consider ‘third Monday’. There’s Monday, then second Monday(Tuesday), and then third Monday which is Wednesday. Then there’s Thursday and Friday. It’s been this way since we were told our plant was closing almost two years ago next month. I find Monday and Tuesday pretty […]
Read More Wednesday Check-In : Feeling It, ManIt took me a long time to warm up to Ty Segall. Years. Maybe a decade. Manipulator was when I came on board. That album, plus his interview with Marc Maron where he talked about skateboarding on acid. I thought, “You know, I think I might like this kid now.” Since then I’ve come to […]
Read More Watch Ty Segall Eat A Bunch Of Eggs in “Eggman” VideoThere’s never really a great time to get sick, but the day of your first concert in a year is especially not a great time. Months ago I was lucky enough to snag a couple tickets to see Queens of the Stone Age down in Indianapolis at the TCU Amphitheater for the boy and I. […]
Read More Queens, Car Alarms, Stomach Bugs…My Weekend In A NutshellThe world of Futuropaco, the Italio psych musical project of multi-instrumentalist Justin Pinkerton(Golden Void/The Roots Of Orchis/glass parallels) is like the wind in your hair as you race a Vespa through the cobblestone streets of Northern Italy. Tight jazz drumming, fuzz guitars, and ethereal keys carry you along on a psychedelic slipstream. It’s a sophisticated, […]
Read More Futuropaco : Fortezza di VetroExplosions in the Sky have long been one of the supreme purveyors of post rock, a genre of music that relies on mostly wordless exaltations through instrumentals. Sometimes the music is big, widescreen, and heavy with emotional intent. Sometimes the music is as quiet as a whisper, conveying the same emotional depths but through ambient […]
Read More Explosions In The Sky : EndIt’s taken close to 15 years, but after all this time and cruising the social media slipstream I’ve finally been hacked. Monumental day, folks. I woke up this morning about 8 am(decided I needed an extra day of R&R so I called off work) to a text from my best friend saying “You deleted your […]
Read More HackedWhen singer/songwriter Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse took his own life back in March of 2010 it was both an absolute shock and sadly not surprising. Linkous struggled with depression and addiction and you heard it in his music. Still, you hope someone as talented and heart-on-sleeve as Linkous would find their way out of the […]
Read More Sparklehorse : Bird MachineI first discovered Michael C Sharp back in 2018 when I did a deep dive over at Holodeck Records. That Austin, TX-based record label was a musically rich and diverse corner of the universe, bringing everything from Krautrock to moody synth to techno dance floor bangers under one roof. I discovered so many artists I […]
Read More “specific motion and mood” : Michael C Sharp Talks ‘Late Horizon’, Writing Process, And Future ProjectsI’m not a summer person. I enjoy moments of it; individual afternoons, or perhaps a warm Saturday afternoon walk with my wife in town talking about her job. Or grabbing tomatoes and jalapenos from the farmer’s stand for fresh salsa. Farmer’s stands, that’s one of the few reasons I enjoy summer. Nothing better that fresh […]
Read More Summer’s Almost Gone(rejoice)