A view of the dojo on a Saturday in January. It's pretty wild to be entering year five of the Seasonal Mixtape Series with Winter 2025//page of swords. This series began in the waning crescent of the previous Trump administration, and in many ways, this mixtape harkens back to it in the swiftly waxing fascism… Continue reading Winter 2025//page of swords
Coffee grounds reading from mid-October, in my kitchen with my friend, Stephanie. It immediately looked to me like a woman walking through fire, or through parted seas, which is exactly how this season of my life felt. "With water proof matches and fireproof fabric." You can see the past coming into the present and the… Continue reading Fall 2024//New Roots
The roots of the I Scream for Cleveland mixtape go back a couple years at least, back to when Twitter was still a somewhat valuable place for writers to be. My friend Maria Barrios, who received my fall 2023 tape, tweeted something about me screaming for Cleveland. I responded in the rhythm of the last… Continue reading Summer 2024//I Scream for Cleveland
https://videopress.com/v/S48gDPuU?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true A video Bob Kidney from 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band) sent me on December 17th of last year with just these words: "here's my holiday wish for you." The past is dead and I've been reborn. I'm under no obligation to keep doing the same thing, so I'm not writing about this one. I just… Continue reading Spring 2024//behind your eyes
Here are the tapes from this retrograde, make sure to check out the winter 2024//as above, so below seasonal mixtape it yielded. I'm very proud of it. I have apparently become too powerful and well-balanced and no longer need to do this for daily stress relief and emotional processing and can get my seasonal mixtapes perfect… Continue reading As Above, So Below: A Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series
I am very pleased to share the first seasonal mixtape of 2024. This tape is for my best friend, Oz, and I hope it keeps me with them through this winter, since I cannot visit them in LA, as I had planned to. Oz was the first person to point out to me that mixtapes… Continue reading Winter 2024//as above, so below
Front cover taken in one of the last truly Cleveland sort of areas remaining, industrial zone full of trash and debris being reclaimed by nature across from West Side Metals, around W. 65th and Clark Ave. If you follow my Seasonal Mixtape Series closely, you may recall the song "New Harm" by Tara Jane O'Neil… Continue reading fall 2023//new harm(ony)
I sort of stopped making individual posts about each radio show, because I get really tired of cross-posting so much stuff so many places. I've also had to really hustle to survive economically the past few months, but I made a page on the website for every episode of Sounds Coming Out of the Land… Continue reading Sounds Coming Out of the Land #5 & #6 in the Archive
One of my music writing victories recently was convincing the editor of what is probably the most important outlet for coverage of electronic music online to let me review the latest tape from Noah Depew’s Burning Plastic Blues Band project, Spiritual Latency. It was the one year anniversary of Noah captivating me so tremendously with his Peculiar Refractions in the Fullness… Continue reading Review of Burning Plastic Blues Band – Spiritual Latency on Resident Advisor
Pretty wildly chaotic retrograde, but it yielded a fall 2023 mixtape I'm very proud to end year three of the Seasonal Mixtape Series with. You can watch it evolve over time through these retrograde tapes, as usual. New Harm, Vol. I - 8.15.2023 - for B. Note: Retrograde chaos. Lori Scacco tune is from the… Continue reading New Harm: A Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series
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