I Love This New Malcolm Record
The Ok-Ok’s are an indie rock band from Central PA. I don’t know anything about them. The guitarist in the band is Isaac Swartz and he recently released an album under the name Malcolm called Romantic Melancholy (A Brief Period of Emotions). I honestly don’t know much...
The Satanic Panic
I was listening to the 666th episode of This American Life the other day, which is appropriately about Satan. The first act of the show features a story about longtime ultra-Christian radio preacher and televangelist Bob Larson’s research mission back in the late...
The Day Metal Died [For Me]
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...
Getting the Fuck Out of My Own Way
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...
Why Do I Create?
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...
Formlessness Tines
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...



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