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May 11 min read
MayDay! MayDay!
I have been cooped up in the recording dungeon, trying to finish up my album so I can go out into the sunlight this year. I don’t think I...
Apr 81 min read
Totality Changes Everything!
This is a shot from what is probably Disney's strangest movie release, A Watcher in the Woods (John Hugh, 1980). If I remember correctly,...
Apr 111 min read
April Playlist & Rock and Roll High School
New Month, New Playlist! Listen Here. I'm super busy this week mixing my upcoming record, which is a seemingly endless task. So, here's a...
Mar 235 min read
Rockin’ Pneumonia: Songs of Sickness
Two weeks ago, I went to my annual oncologist appointment. I have spent the last twelve years cancer-free. Still, after three rounds of...
Feb 285 min read
March Playlist, Album Doodles, Radio Alhara, Cyberpunk, and Racquetball Rock.
It’s almost March. Or at least it would be in a typical year, which means a new playlist is now available! It’s two hundred and twenty...
Feb 135 min read
New Age Cassettes, Cat Pianos, Animal Whispers, and AI Soundtracks
Here are a few highlights from this week: Sounds of the Dawn: A YouTube channel that posts New Age cassettes from the 80s and 90s. This...
Feb 54 min read
February Playlist Available
Playlist Here It's a new month, and a new playlist has begun. At over 13.5 hours already, this playlist is enormous, and it's early in...
Jan 293 min read
Dancing in My Golden Years
I have to run for my mental health. I'm sure I'm not the only one out there frustrating the people of the sidewalk. Sorry! There are a...
Jan 192 min read
2023: Collected Favorites
Playlist: HERE I have listened to a lot of songs this year. I could go head-to-head with my music-obsessed teenage self in terms of...
Jul 25, 20234 min read
Missed Encyclopedia Entries Part II
I skimmed through the rest of Rolling Stone's Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll yesterday. This second half ended up about half the length of...
Jul 11, 202356 min read
Missed Encyclopedia Entries Part 1
The Playlist KORN BIZKITS I have a copy of Rolling Stone's Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, 2nd Ed. (Published 1995) that I have been...
Jun 13, 202314 min read
Mine! Theft, Interpolation, and The Answer Song
Playlist Monthly Playlist The Cultured Class If you look at the writing credits on Radiohead's 1992 song Creep, you will notice that two...
Jun 1, 202316 min read
This is a Public Service Announcement with Guitar!
Playlist. You Don't Need No Engine to Go Downhill During the New Deal, an unprecedented amount of money was given to the arts. Through...
May 24, 20237 min read
House Music: Blood Harmony and Dissonance
"All of the people around us, they say Can they be that close? Just let me state for the record We're giving love in a family dose."...
May 15, 20231 min read
I Can See A Light...
New Single Available Now. XV
May 14, 202312 min read
Lost In The Sauce
Spotify Playlist I have written in the past about "unknown sounds." Before April 9, 1860, there were no sound recordings. Songs were...
May 6, 20236 min read
The Masked Singer
Listen to the Playlist Somebody Stop Me! The mask may be used to perpetrate a crime or a scare. The Early Norweigan Black Metal scene...
May 1, 20231 min read
New Demo Release on Bandcamp
I'm recording demos for an upcoming recording session. Here is the first of a few that will appear here in the coming weeks. It's called...
May 1, 20235 min read
For Demonstration Only
I'm recording demos for an upcoming album, one of which, Redwing, I will be releasing today. Here are some thoughts about the...
Apr 23, 20237 min read
Other Communications: Slang, Non-Lexical Vocables, and Invented Languages in Music
Listen Along: Spotify Playlist Let’s start with the somewhat familiar: Slang. Polari, the cant language favored by 19th-century theatre...
