Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
I first heard New York City’s Salvatore Mercatante way back in 2019 with his excellent dark synth/Giallo exploration Il Lamento della Strega. I was blown away by it as it felt like it was pulled out of some alternate reality; Gothic undertones and 70s Italian horror come together to make this beautiful and eerie sound […]
Read More Salvatore Mercatante : Strega III: Dianus Of DoorwaysRemember when the Right was all about free speech? Back when trolls like Alex Jones and that Milo whatever his name was were banned from Twitter for their hate speech? All these camouflaged, bearded weekend warriors on the far Right were screaming about silencing voices? Well now those same couch potato pundits are laughing at […]
Read More Free Speech Warriors…Hello?? Is This Thing On??David Byrne has made quite a career for himself since the dissolution of Talking Heads. In fact, when people talk about Talking Heads its as if David Byrne was the only “Head” that mattered and continued to create music and art at a prolific rate. Though, if you’re in the know you know that’s not […]
Read More David Byrne : Who Is The Sky?I’m always excited when there’s new Alone 1980 music to get lost in. The Sweden-based electronic artist has taken the world of imagined soundtracks and elevated it. What started out as a genre influenced and inspired by the sleazy synth world that scored so many b-movie exploitation horror films from the 70s and 80s(many of […]
Read More Alone 1980 : PortalZach Frizzell, aka zakè, has done a lot to build a musical community within the ambient/new age/drone worlds. Between his label Past Inside The Present(which he co-runs with a collective of like-minded artists), as well as his own zakè drone recordings, Zach has gone a long way to build a vibrant, engaging, and forward-thinking musical community. […]
Read More zakè(ft. various artists) : SilentiumWe’ve successfully made it to the end of another week. And, like most weeks that we’ve been encountering for the last several years there was plenty of evidence to support the idea that the end times are coming along nicely. From continued genocide in parts of the world, to yet another American school shooting, to […]
Read More Friday : A Week’s RecapI’m sick and tired of hearing about gun deaths in the U.S. I’m tired of the hemming and hawing from the “gun folks” when you bring up stricter gun laws and their tired arguments of bad guys getting guns whether there’s stricter laws or not(why bathe? You’re just going to get dirty again.) I’m tired […]
Read More Another Day In the USAWhenever I hear Dr. Dog’s “Tell Your Friends” I’m reminded of my wife and I’s trip to Colorado last summer. We were there to see Dr. Dog play at Red Rocks, that was the main point of our journey out west. The week in Denver leading up to the Thursday evening concert was not a […]
Read More “Tell Your Friends”(for Otto)It’s been pretty mild temperature-wise here. The first part of September is giving us the gift of highs in the 60s/low 70s, and at night we’re hitting below 50 degrees. That’s…amore. We’re nearly 10 days into September and that train keeps rolling. Kids have been in school since mid August around here and that just […]
Read More September Rolls…Cold Weather Break…License To Feel Ill…ETCSingle Lash came out of the Austin music scene in a fervor of shimmering guitars, Goth romanticism, and a knack for repurposing the “college rock” sound of the 80s and early 90s. Not repurposing in a way that felt derivative in any way, but somehow channeling the magic of bands like Catherine Wheel, The Cure, […]
Read More Single Lash Return With Lush New Single “Now for the Real World”