21st Century Rock
Top: Dance Gavin Dance| Bottom left: Pierce the Veil | Bottom right: PicturesqueI grew up on metal. I graduated from high school in 1989, right before a summer when Jane’s Addiction and The Cure disrupted my musical trajectory forever. But up to that point, my high...
My Social Media Debacle (Part 2)
(Originally posted at EraseTheFilter.com) In late summer 2019, I watched The Great Hack, a Netflix documentary about Cambridge Analytica, a big data mining and analysis company, and their involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. My abridged takeaway is that...
Tool in Philly
On November 18, 2019 I had the privilege of seeing Tool perform at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. It had been just over 25 years since I last saw the band perform live at 328 Performance Hall in Nashville, TN during the spring of 1994. Before my review of the...
The Year of Rhythm
I dubbed 2019 the Year of Action. After two full years of significant life transitions, I needed to get back to doing the things that had always brought me joy and fulfillment: making software, music, and podcasts. One thing that I had discovered during the two years...
The Candy Factory 5BY5 Podcast
What’s the next logical thing to do after launching a weekly podcast? Launch another one, of course! It’s called The Candy Factory 5BY5 Podcast, a fun show where my co-host, Diggs, and I welcome a special guest to have a five, five minute conversations, about five...
Top 5 Ambient Tracks
Last month I was driving through Pittsburgh and remembered when I first became aware of ambient music as a specific genre. It was the summer of 1990 and I was working in the Burgh between my freshman and sophomore years of college. In those days, before the infinite...