"No Island functions reflexively as a title—as both a refusal to become isolated in the quarantined world and an adventure to a dream place outside, forged from many different insides." I love this record and I feel like I waited so long to be able to share it with everyone upon its release, so it is… Continue reading Album of the Day: Winged Wheel – No Island
March was a great month, specifically because I got to write about my simultaneously cursed and blessed hometown of Cleveland twice leading up to my birthday, which is also always very much a celebration of the place I was born and spent the first thirteen years of my life. Fellow Aries Clevelander, Ben Baker-Billington, invited… Continue reading March Tape Label Report
This mixtape was crafted for my friend and elder whom I am very grateful for in the field of music journalism, Marc Masters. It was interesting to make a winter mixtape for Marc, because he had just officially graduated from winter and moved to Arizona. I was really excited to make a tape for him,… Continue reading Winter 2022//recorded syntax
It pleases me to announce that my Mark Edwards Lifetime Achievement article finally hit the Bandcamp front page, that it has Cleveland in the headline and the byline, and that many people since its publication have reached out to let me know how much they enjoyed both the article and the city of Cleveland getting its due and its… Continue reading Mark Edwards Lifetime Achievement
Hello there! I wrote about the ever fascinating Notice Recordings for Bandcamp's Tape Label Report this past month. In addition to getting to write about a tape label with a unique and intentional approach to the form, I also got to highlight a release which is one of my favorite winter albums, a solo percussion… Continue reading Notice Recordings in February Tape Label Report
It was an honor to write about where Norman W. Long is from and his journey into sound art and back to Chicago. It's a great story about the twin deaths of the American Dream and effective unionism, classism and racism, and possibilities he is creating and recording for both personal and environmental healing in… Continue reading Norman W. Long Lifetime Achievement
It has literally been five months since I first heard the advance of this record and knew I had to write about it. Kicking off my second year of music journalism, here is a band which represents the converging of sounds, scenes, and individuals previously segregated for the last quarter century in DIY music in… Continue reading Credentials Feature Finally Live
My second 90s Boston takeover at WFMU has been in the archive for a minute, with the lovely chat/my lecture, complete tracklist, etc. It was super fun, again…I had no idea it was the anniversary of Neil Mahoney’s death until the day of, so I had to dedicate it to him in the chat. A lot more deep… Continue reading WFMU #2 in Archive for Your Eternal Access
Currently, my favorite thing about the snow is that my dog loves it, and her favorite thing is when I make her a snowball, throw it, and it dissipates into the rest of the snow as it lands: a Very Good Puppy Mystery, and also a way I am teaching her about being-in-the-world and consciousness. I am… Continue reading Musical Haiku Essay on the Theme of Snow and Consciousness
Following my article on the 90s Boston independent rock scene, I was invited by the WFMU music director to do a radio broadcast extension of the article. The experience was wonderful for everyone who participated! Multiple musicians from 90s Boston have told me the work I am doing is reconnecting people, igniting memories, and helping… Continue reading WFMU Broadcast on 90s Boston Gets an Encore
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