This is a chill mix. This is not a chillout mix. This is a journey from light to dark and light again, in the vein of last year’s mix for staring out of train windows, only this time there isn’t a train, there’s just you and the music and a dark place inside yourself. shoegazy … [Read more…]
This year Three Floyds has added a whole lotta rules http://www.darklordday.com/faq/ But hopefully the new system will resolve some of the logistical problems they’ve had in the past. Last year, I wish I could have enjoyed the party rather than just spend 5 hours waiting in line to buy a few bottles of beer.
Grok: from the Martian grok. To understand a subject so completely and intuitively that you consume it and it consumes you. Literally, “to drink.” Grog: Historically, a mixture of rum and small beer or water drunk on sailing ships. Colloquially, just about any alcoholic beverage. To put it plainly, we like to drink. And that is what … [Read more…]
Just your basic mix of cover songs. Ska covers! Bluegrass covers! Metal covers! Punk covers! I know, it’s been done, but dammit it’s MY TURN. It was brought to my attention though that on a few of these, the original songs may be less well known, so I’ve created a second mix containing the same … [Read more…]
My Best Albums of 2008 Show! These are the albums I have decided are the best albums that a) I’ve listened to, b) have an official 2008 release date, and c) are full-length LPs, not EPs or compilations. Since I listen to a broad variety of music, some of the segues are a little jarring. … [Read more…]
Halloween is almost upon us. As is the mode of our society, the day has become a celebration of consumer culture, with cheap plastic costumes filling the shelves at your local walmart, children begging for whatever character is at the top of the Nickelodeon pyramid this year. But in the same way that many … [Read more…]
Since the last time I posted here, I’ve put up a couple of mixes over at Radio Gen1us. Head on over there and check them out! In other news, my family’s annual Labor Day hog roast is this weekend and man, am I looking forward to that. Piles and piles of great food. Just the thing … [Read more…]
Way back in the day, a bunch of kids thought rock and roll was boring and started playing some super fast, sloppy, but extremely catchy rock and roll and breathed new life into a music scene that kept throwing different repackaged versions of the same 3 bands at the music consuming public. That music … [Read more…]
Damian was out there playing too, I don’t know why the pics I took of him didn’t come out as clear as I’d have liked. Here are a couple: Then we stopped and picked up some ice cream to take home with us, and I snapped these on our way.