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
Concluding the second year of my Seasonal Mixtape Series, it's finally here: fall 2022//no autumn leaves. You may notice this sounds a lot better than every other tape in the series so far; that is because I switched to a double cassette set format in order to still bring you a thrilling two hour narrative… Continue reading Fall 2022//no autumn leaves
This time around, all Mercury retrograde mixtapes began as studies for my fall 2022 seasonal mixtape. Starting each one with "Weather Radio" was abandoned as I moved to a new format of high bias 60 minute tapes and wanted to try out drafts of equal length sides. (The first two tapes were 90 min normal… Continue reading Weather Radio: A Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series
Lindsey Loberg is one of my best and oldest friends. They did not have a tape player, but I bought them a refurbished Walkman to listen to this tape, which they love. I struggled a lot in the process of creating this tape. There were many different tapes used and discarded in the throes of… Continue reading Summer 2022//thief of fire
Following my article on Dog Faced Hermans for Bandcamp, Modern Soul Records asked me to make a playlist for their site. For this mix, I could have just selected tracks from genres and artists I knew were influential to the Hermans, but I remembered guitarist Andy Moor saying that the band was inspired more by… Continue reading Dog Faced Hermans Mixtape for Modern Soul Records
Me, right now, in the laundromat parking lot, where I am writing this. At the beginning of this Mercury retrograde, the person I had been pretty seriously dating for a month bailed on the Juana Molina show we were supposed to go to at the Old Town School of Folk Music and said he needed… Continue reading One Day: A Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series
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