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
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)
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
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
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
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