Tai Chi Tommy : Nightmares At The Sad Souls Cafe

So are you the type that loves fall, the light fading earlier and earlier in the evening, and of course Halloween season? You dig the spooks, cooks, eerie voices emanating from nowhere in-particular, and just the general reason for the season? But you’re tired of the usual musical suspects when it comes to Halloween tunes? […]

Fall Break

The day has arrived. We’ve been looking forward to this week since we booked the Air BnB months ago. Vacation week is here and I couldn’t be more thrilled. It was a year ago that I found out the plant I work in would be closed for good by July 2024. The place I’d worked […]

Burial Party : Burial Party

Sometimes(or maybe most of the time) you want music that isn’t hidden under studio tricks, far out concepts, or hard to crack veneers. There’s something very primal about music that is raw, in-your-face, and visceral. Even a lot of hardcore and post-hardcore bands fall victim to art rock shenanigans and they become more of a […]

Unstuck In Time With Kurt Vonnegut and Glenn Gould

It was 10th grade and I was trying to find something…something that would take me to the next intellectual level. I was a guitarist. Music was my “passion”, I suppose. But hammer-ons, power chords, and prog rock only goes so far. There were parts of my head and heart that were hungry for those sorts […]

White Hills : The Revenge Of Heads On Fire

White Hills are the quintessential New York rock band. They’re loud, gritty, can wear a pair of leather pants like nobody’s business, and paint musical visions of stark cityscapes and shadowy worlds that only make their presence known when the sun dies over the lower east side. Dave W and Ego Sensation are the minds […]

“Looking At The Present Moment” : Andrew Crawshaw Talks SFI Recordings

In Seattle, Washington sits a small, boutique electronic music label called SFI Recordings. In its relatively short existence as a label there has been an extensive and prolific catalog of music released. Steve Moore, Majeure, New Frontiers, Paul Riedl, Mnemonic Pulse, and Deathcount In Silicon Valley to name a few. What all these artists have […]

Middle-Aged Blues, Vacation, Cool Weather

This past Friday was Senior Night at the high school football game. Our son is part of the drum line in the marching band, as well as being a senior. It was our duty/honor to walk with him on the track as the announcer said his name, mentioned his intentions on furthering his education next […]

SOMAFREE INSTITUTE : Seek Sound Shelter

On the latest release from Seattle’s SOMAFREE INSTITUTE, the heavy synth trio lays out a cosmic space epic in EP form. Seek Sound Shelter sees the trio, which consists of Andrew Crawshaw, Tim Call, and Justin Thomas Kleine, building a sonic bridge which spans across decades of progressive electronic music. Touches of Klaus Schulze, Zombi, […]

From Overseas and City of Dawn : Misty Memories

The latest from label Past Inside The Present is a free fall into sonic bliss with the collaborative Misty Memories. Bringing together for the first time artists From Overseas and City Of Dawn, this ambient/new age record brings together “nostalgic tape sounds, lo-fi strings, mesmerizing guitar loops, and Kévin(Séry’s) use of subtle vocal samples create […]

The Hubners Meet The Wright Brothers

I remember growing up there was a book that laid for years in the drawer of one of the endtables in our living room. There weren’t many books in that drawer, so I guess that’s why this one stood out. It was a book with very detailed paintings of airplanes; from bi-planes to WW1 and […]

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