History’s Great Catchments.

So after this very post, I’m going to hunker down (read: go to work, go out with friends, and not hunker down in any literal sense) and think up my end of year stuff for this site. I usually try to do best concerts, best discoveries that were released pre-2009, and then the [...]

A price we put on display

You build yourself a house.
It happens at some point in your late 20s that you’ve saved up enough money to either pay back college loans or buy some small property outside of Dallas, and that seems less reasonable but more productive, so you fake your own death and get down to Dallas in a surprisingly [...]

the birds in a cage in a house in the suburbs.

To put things in a context that should mean absolutely nothing to you: What I offer you today is the best song about post-apocalyptic blowjobs you will ever hear in your entire life. Ever.
“We’re Goin’ Down” is from The Night Marcher’s 2007 album See You in Magic.
The Night Marchers [...]

we’ve got a lot of renting left to do before we go.

Two totally unrelated things: Neko Case is an animal, De La Soul are guilty bystanders.
Neko Case is an animal. Perhaps that’s a bit obvious, but to describe her any further muddles things, and to leave it at that is more revealing than you’d think. Case is a writer, but has not published [...]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

If you’re here for the music, there are some songs at the end. They’re Blood Brothers songs. Feel free to skip this.
So I’ve danced around it before, and will, out of respect for the clients I’m working with, never go into extreme detail, but as of the beginning of October, I work with [...]

global politics climb the hill in your backyard

So I was so bloodpumped about the new John K Samson EP, City Route 85, that I couldn’t help but expect to be let down when I heard it in it’s entirety. And, I’m not even going to preface this with a letdown, this is a great little album. There is no [...]

you’ve got that feeling, now lose it fast.

Three years ago last night, I was James K Polk. Preparation for that night was snorting, smoking and swigging (which, probably quickly devolved into slurping and from there further into supping, then slipping, then, somehow, scabies.). It lead to some questionable decisions but from what I recall, it was a pretty fun night [...]

don’t even get me STARTED on the applesauce problem.

not much new music in my pipeline at the moment outside of the Edward Sharpe album and the anticipation of the new Thao, Miles Benjamin, and John K Samson albums, but I’ve been rediscovering stuff up the wazoo. Maybe it was seeing a phenomenal Roadside Graves show a week or so back, but I [...]

the flowers at the landfill

So The Reigning Sound and Molina and Johnson. Molina and Johnson first.
This is one I’m frothing for, which is dumb. Jason Molina is the singer/guitarist/songwriter for The Magnolia Electric Company and Songs: Ohia, and Will Johnson is the singer/guitarist/songwriter for Centro-Matic (one of my favorite bands) and South San Gabriel (one of [...]

the modern exploits of our caged, horned, beasts.

transplanting life is never that simple. you can try to sever everything, blindfold it all up and drive it in circles ’till it loses directions, but somehow things manage to leave a breadcrumb trail. I said goodbye to jersey on saturday morning and fall asleep to Jay Z oscillating in different tones from [...]