Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra : Dimensional Stardust

I won’t pretend to understand completely what’s happening on Dimensional Stardust, but what I do know for sure is that it moves me. Pulling from abstractionism, avante garde, and otherworldly vibes, this album feels like finding something obscure and alien only to stare at it long enough to find beauty in the unknown. Rob Mazurek […]

The Nels Cline Singers : Share The Wealth

Nels Cline has had quite the career, both before and after Wilco. A musical force to be reckoned with in the Avant Garde, jazz, punk, and experimental scene he’s played with everyone from Mike Watt, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Geraldine Fibbers, Blue Man Group, Ornette Coleman, and Rickie Lee Jones to name a few. But […]

Persian Dervish Salad Surgery

Every year that we have a family vacation down in Brown County and get back with nature(in an air-conditioned cabin with game room and hot tub) I always try to bring one or two records back from our stay. On one of the days we head 25 minutes west to Bloomington where I put my […]

Out There

Eric Dolphy’s Out There was one of the first albums I bought when I began collecting vinyl. It was in October of 2008 and my wife and I spent a Saturday evening in Chicago. We were there originally to see My Morning Jacket at the Auditorium Theater but singer Jim James had taken a stumble […]

Let The Bruise Blood Come Out

This is an interesting one for me. You see, it seems I discovered the wonderful world of anxiety attacks the summer of 2014. I’m not sure why they started coming on. My wife had gotten a new job that had her traveling quite a bit. That might have been a part of it, with me […]

Music For 18 Musicians

I think I’d read the name Steve Reich recently, that’s why I’m writing what I’m writing at this very moment. Now, I’d heard of Steve Reich before recently. In fact, I’ve heard his name mentioned many times over the years. I never seeked his music out. I was never one to check out modern classical […]