Shredders

One week I might write something again. This is not that week. Instead, I will point out this shredder video. It’s not what you think.

Watch the whole series. Make sure not to miss the Slash [...]

Week 57: The Ballad of Stayed and Gone 6

It’s been 17 weeks since my last post on this recording project. During these past weeks, we’ve been focusing on rehearsing the music, playing a few live shows, and vacationing, and last Sunday we officially started production of the record.

But before that, over the past few months, we played a few gigs in [...]

Bring Back the Bridge

churchbus made a rare appearance last night in Wicker Park with Grun Tu Molani, Judgment of Paris and Houston’s Bring Back the Guns.

Grun Tu Molani, an oddball trio of electric piano trumpet and drums, name all their songs after animals (my current favorites being elephant and rabbit) and host an animal blog on [...]

Since I’ve Been Thinking About It

I’m listening to Led Zepplin’s “Since I’ve Been Loving You” and man, I’ve gotta tell you. The guitar solo in that song gets me all goofy.

I know there’s a ton of people with at least semi-legit arguments for why Zep does nothing for them. I get that. But seriously, if you are [...]

more photographs later…

Was gibts Neues?

I’m obliged to correct a misstatement from a couple of weeks ago: there is a virulent strain of Greenpeace based here, but I doubt it’s linked directly to all of the luxury car burning that has been taking place in Berlin; there is a separate anti-globalization ‘gang’ according to my rather [...]

Forty five

Don’t do the podcast when your head is up your ass, I guess. And I was so certain I was perfect.

Doug submitted “Train to Miami” not Justin.

The Life-Style Violent Juvenile

The Difference Between Sick and Evil

The above is a photo of the original post office which is now falling [...]

the island, part 10: u.s. mill

This is the tenth in a song-by-song series about why I chose FULL FORCE GALESBURG by The Mountain Goats as the one CD I would take to a desert island. Previous installments are available here.

You wake up gloriously alive, with the firm conviction that the problems that have disturbed you in the past [...]

Kickin’ it for Thanksgiving 2007 – Houston Style

Kicking Up Shit 1(You know who you are) You! Yes you, the one not taking shit from anyone! Keep it up! Fuck ‘em!

Kicking Up Shit 2(excerpt from 20-30 minute phone call discussing an artist’s choice of accompanying photograph for an article) Writer: “That’s the one E. chose.”Frustrated Editor: “Sometimes the artist isn’t the [...]

Sound

Alchemists of Sound:

Parts two, three, four, five, six, and seven.

And as a bonus, Stockhausen talks about sound, while wearing a fly suit:

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Week 56: Piano Solos

Hopefully you’re spending thanksgiving with some friends and/or family and you are sharing some good music together. If you find yourself in a bind and no one has an instrument, or a new recording they want to play, here’s some piano stuff. One can never go wrong with some piano music on the holidays. [...]