The latest episode of Sounds Coming Out of the Land is available on the Echobox Mixcloud archive in case you missed it! I’ve also taken it upon myself to make it extremely easy for anyone to access all the shows—including the new episode ahead of the broadcast—in one place, by creating a page where you… Continue reading Sounds Coming Out of the Land #4: Where the River Burned
Life has been hectic, so I forgot to post this here, amid the 8,000 places I have to cross-post things in this day and age! It was a sincere honor to write about the new Saloli album Canyon, released last month on kranky. It's been a real pleasure to spend time with this LP and… Continue reading Review of Saloli – Canyon on Resident Advisor
The third episode of Sounds Coming Out of the Land is available here! I'm just going to share the original files from my Google Drive, because they keep cutting off my shows. It includes another Doc Nemo tribute set, this time focused on music happening live locally or being played on the radio in 1968;… Continue reading Sounds Coming Out of the Land #3: God DAMN, the Pusherman
This tape has had a strange and uncertain path to becoming the official seasonal mixtape of Summer 2023. It was originally supposed to be for Maria Barrios, but then I thought I had written it too far ahead of summer and that I should give it to the person I was spending the most time… Continue reading Summer 2023//it’s a rainy day, sunshine girl
Listen: I've mostly been hiding out in a sleepy part of New Jersey, because NYC is totally overwhelming to me, but in a few hours I'm going to be in Brooklyn to meet with a most prestigious Lake Erie Bass Monster and then run over to Cynthia Sley's house. If you keep up with the… Continue reading Sounds Coming Out of the Land #2: Heavy Music
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
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