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
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
I am very pleased to share the first seasonal mixtape of 2024. This tape is for my best friend, Oz, and I hope it keeps me with them through this winter, since I cannot visit them in LA, as I had planned to. Oz was the first person to point out to me that mixtapes… Continue reading Winter 2024//as above, so below
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)
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
This feature is focused on the relationship between the mixtape maker and the mixtape's recipient. Here is my old friend Sevan holding the tape I made for them last fall. My Seasonal Mixtape Series was featured on the Made You a Tape blog run by Sarah Grady in DC. I am the most proud of making a… Continue reading Seasonal Mixtape Series Featured on Made You a Tape
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