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 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
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 catalog for Norman W. Long's Calumet in Dub solo exhibition at the Glass Curtain Gallery of Columbia College Chicago has been released! It features a catalog essay I wrote. I'm really grateful to everyone who made this exhibit happen and I'm honored to have been asked to participate. I opened up 2022 with a… Continue reading Norman W. Long’s Calumet in Dub Catalog Essay
"Spring Into Winter" was a perfect title for an incredibly productive Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series which yielded 17 one-off tapes for pals and TWO seasonal mixtapes: winter 2023//forces at work and spring 2023//this is the chariot!!!!! Now all this shit is going into a box until I return from the Black Eyes reunion Easter… Continue reading Spring Into Winter: A Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series
I documented my first research trip to Northeast Ohio for the book I am writing in my latest Substack newsletter. If you subscribe for free, you'll get an email or two a month updating you on my life and work! I also sent in my book proposal and just finished my first review for Cleveland… Continue reading Forces at Work: On the Road to the Land
I put the Land on the Bandcamp front page again, talking about the self-titled debut album by Cleveland garage rock institution, New Salem Witch Hunters. Crank that shit. Sorry, not sorry, WMMS!!!! It’s also about how it’s really challenging for bands to try to exist in Cleveland, which seems to be a central force in… Continue reading New Salem Witch Hunters Kept Garage Rock Regional and Obscure
Always a good day when I get to invoke Carl Sandburg, honestly! Nick Macri personifies everything that makes me love the artistic culture of this city and feel proud to be a part of it and this week I gave him the 🏆 Bandcamp Grammy Treatment 🏆. Check in with what he has been doing largely… Continue reading Nick Macri Embodies the Spirit of Chicago’s Creative Community
I think I broke my brain writing about this band, but the good news is that my brain only broke in order to reform as a bigger, better brain and I may even be able to do fractional math now. Please get acquainted with my favorite band in Chicago, je'raf, who are in my opinion… Continue reading The Sonic Family Tree of Chicago’s je’raf
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