Painting With Sound: Beetlecrab Audio’s Tempera
There is nothing I know that gives a person this kind or amount of creative control over sound so intuitively.
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Music Monday: World Building, Sound Building
A great example of artists mining an incredibly deep creative vein at a frenetic pace, a sound they were constantly honing both live and in studio
Music Monday: Bytes as Droplets of Water
The film and music are simply two different expressions of the same ideas, the same core theme.
Music Monday: Review of Joe Hollick’s Rest Lessness
The best records are the ones that can both grab you immediately but also grow on you. Joe Hollick’s Rest Lessness does that.
Monday Music: A Review of Chains & Stakes by The Dead South
The country genre implies the presence of certain tropes which The Dead South don’t employ. So, what is their sound?
Dean McPhee’s Astral Gold Is a Must-Listen
Rare is the instrumental album which explores its theme in a coherent way to both artist and listener. Such an album is Dean McPhee’s Astral Gold
Talisk: More Than Just a Scottish Folk Trio
Talisk isn’t just your usual neighborhood acoustic Scottish folk trio, all jigs and reels and hornpipes, no
The Critic Problem
I call the way I approach film as “The Meh Plateau.” Most movies do not suck, nor are most movies amazing.
TV Reviews for Regular People: Nancy Drew
So, we can call “Nancy Drew” the mystery love child of “Veronica Mars” and “Supernatural!”
Saturday Spins: Rancid Ska
This week I will be covering punk rock outfit Rancid. The twist is the randomizer spit out an official/unofficial compilation of their best ska tracks.
Saturday Spins: The Go
On this week’s edition of the soon-to-be-popular Saturday Spins, a new release, really a reissue, by the little-known garage rock outfit, The Go.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Kobayashi Maru (as a board game)
The Captain Is Dead is fun and really difficult-to-win co-op board game.
Saturday Spins
In order to put my ~600 LPs and EPs to good use, and to continue my war against streaming music and other low-quality ways to digest music, I have conceived the idea of reviewing...
Alive Again, Following Dreams
Runrig made, in my estimation, the perfect album with In Search of Angels. Most albums devolve into sulking or into joyful noise or rather serious introspection. It’s hard to find the right mix without being discordant.
Kevin Williamson’s Smallest World
A radical libertarian manifesto that deserves to be taken seriously – and rejected. A Review of Kevin Williamson’s “The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics”
Good, Bad, and Indifferent: QPR for 2Q
Opining on the interwebs doesn’t have quarterly performance reviews, but if it did, let’s see how some of the words I’ve put out into the ether have held up.
Sunday Morning! On Persona and Jennifer Packer
On a great contemporary artist, a Bergman classic, and the cruelty and care of depicting others.
Tenshot: Executive Decision (1996)
He gets torn out of a plane and plummets to his death. It’s great.
