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by Jason Mundok | Jan 28, 2019 | Blog
I will never forget the first time I heard Disintegration by The Cure. It was released in May 1989, right around the time that I graduated from high school. Coming off of a significant immersion into metal in the 1980s, times had been changing for me musically. Metal...
by Jason Mundok | Jan 24, 2019 | Blog
In my previous post, I reflected on my “why” for playing music and how that “why” evolved over the past three decades. Five years ago when I was in my early forties, I decided that writing, recording, and performing music that I didn’t absolutely love would no longer...
by Jason Mundok | Jan 21, 2019 | Blog
I’ve grappled with this question my whole life. The “why” question. Why do I carry this urge to create things, or more particularly in my case, to create music? I have been a consistently active musician since playing in my first rock bands in high school. For a...
by Jason Mundok | Jan 17, 2019 | Blog
On January 5, 2019 I had the pleasure of heading over to Phoenixville, PA, a 45 minute drive northwest of Philadelphia, with my friend Josh to experience an evening of live ambient music. The event served as a belated celebration for the release of a short run...
by Jason Mundok | Jan 14, 2019 | Blog
Back in 2014 Pat Buzzard, one of my oldest friends, told me about a new podcast he and some buddies were working on. For about a year he and Mark Dantzer, Chuck Johnson, and Ryan Smith had been reading rock bios and getting together for a monthly “book...
by Jason Mundok | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog
The Smashing Pumpkins latest album, Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. (phew), quickly became my favorite rock album of 2018. For a longtime fan of any band, the announcement of a new album 30 years after the band’s formation comes...
