Latest From The Blog

  • HI 5 10/2/23

    HI 5 10/2/23

    Covid round 2 was not as bad as Covid round one, but was not fun. Chris Oliver “Guitar Zero” Sep 16 I’ve talked about Chris’s music before via the excellent Detroit area band “Vellows.” Mr. Oliver takes the opportunity to go wild with his solo content with expectantly fantastic drumming, and novel experimental elements that… Read more

  • HI 5 9/15/23

    HI 5 9/15/23

    Holy September! Time sure is happening folks. Butterfly Chaser “another link in the chain” Sep 1 Disclaimer: this is my wife’s cousin and I think he’s a pretty neat dude so, obvious bias. I love the slow piano melody and the gradual build of the song. Also big fan of the lyrical focus compared to… Read more

  • HI 5 9/1/23

    HI 5 9/1/23

    I was trying to really get a swing of things on video content, and then I get hit by an almost tornado, so I guess that slowed things down. Anywho. Cisco Swank “Soon We’ll Make It” Aug 21 I ended up on the Fresh Finds Jazz playlist for this one, and I do not remember… Read more

  • “Welcome Home” lands Friday, and That Makes Me Feel Things

    “Welcome Home” lands Friday, and That Makes Me Feel Things

    I mean I’ve already kind of talked about this in the original announcement “Welcome Home” as well the “The End” poem, but since we’re so close to arrival I figured I’d touch on this again. So “Welcome Home,” to some extent is my attempt to fictionalize and elaborate upon my mental health crisis circa 2016… Read more

  • “Many Tentacled Tiny Monsters” Is Crawling Toward You

    “Many Tentacled Tiny Monsters” Is Crawling Toward You

    I’ve been wrapping up a pretty large project , and one of my favorite things to do is procrastinate, so instead of finishing that album, I made a whole other, relatively small, release with a focus on fingerstyle guitar and soft folk. The sole non-instrumental song on the album called “Creeping Corporeal Creature” is coming… Read more

  • HI 5 8/18/23

    HI 5 8/18/23

    If I held my hand up, and left it there, what would you do? Jolie Holland “Haunted Mountain” Aug 8 I need to listen to more Jolie Holland. I think I listened to the song “Old Fashioned Morphine” around when it came out in 2004 a decent bit, but was a fool and never dived… Read more