The debut of my new radio show on Echobox in Amsterdam is now available on Mixcloud for your listening pleasure, but consider yourself forewarned that it absolutely smokes. People say that Cleveland rocks, but what it really does even more consistently is smoke. This is a total face-melter from Cleveland for the rest of the… Continue reading Sounds Coming Out of the Land #1 on Echobox Radio
The most ambitious Mercury Retrograde series yet, during what has been the most exhausting, stressful, and exhilarating time in my life so far--eighteen total tapes and one is a double cassette. 🙂 It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl, Vol. I - 4.13.2023 - for Stephanie Gomez It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl, Vol. II -… Continue reading It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl: A Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series
In truth, the first half of 2023 in mixtapes fit together to tell the story from the fall-winter transition to the winter-spring transition, a period in which I decided to move back home to Cleveland. Where the Winter 2023//forces at work tape was about returning to the age I was when I got into punk… Continue reading Spring 2023//this is the chariot!!!!!
It's my honor and joy to announce that I was selected to have a monthly radio show on Echobox in Amsterdam. Since I'm gearing up to be working on this book about how Northeast Ohio modernized rock music for a good, long time, this is a way I can regularly share the work I am… Continue reading Sounds Coming Out of the Land Radio Show
The seed for this winter 2023 mixtape was an earlier tape that I made for my colleague in music journalism and supreme sound selection, John Morrison, during the earliest days of fall last year. Within a day of my Lifetime Achievement article on David Thomas dropping on Bandcamp, news of Anton Fier's death became publicly… Continue reading Winter 2023//forces at work
Hi! It's finally here: my first book review, debut for Cleveland Review of Books, my greatest work so far, and the greatest culmination of what I gathered from my near-decade of living in Chicago. If you love reading this review, you'll love Hole Studies. Period. I've never bought so many copies of a book for… Continue reading Going Off-Script: On Hilary Plum’s Hole Studies
I knew 2023 was going to be the greatest year of my life so far when I began to hear whispers of a Black Eyes reunion last fall. The band decided to put together an archival zine for the occasion and asked me to contribute a reflective essay about the era and why Black Eyes… Continue reading Reflective Essay in Black Eyes 20th Anniversary Archival Zine
The catalog for Norman W. Long's Calumet in Dub solo exhibition at the Glass Curtain Gallery of Columbia College Chicago has been released! It features a catalog essay I wrote. I'm really grateful to everyone who made this exhibit happen and I'm honored to have been asked to participate. I opened up 2022 with a… Continue reading Norman W. Long’s Calumet in Dub Catalog Essay
"Spring Into Winter" was a perfect title for an incredibly productive Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series which yielded 17 one-off tapes for pals and TWO seasonal mixtapes: winter 2023//forces at work and spring 2023//this is the chariot!!!!! Now all this shit is going into a box until I return from the Black Eyes reunion Easter… Continue reading Spring Into Winter: A Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series
I documented my first research trip to Northeast Ohio for the book I am writing in my latest Substack newsletter. If you subscribe for free, you'll get an email or two a month updating you on my life and work! I also sent in my book proposal and just finished my first review for Cleveland… Continue reading Forces at Work: On the Road to the Land
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