Remote Outposts

This one is intended as a companion piece to this post      Barker was starting to wind up WET SPOTS around the same time that our b...

   As a teenager, I was really into garage punk, but I luckily fell into quality shit right off the bat with bands like THE MUMMIES, THE ...

  Besides my old friend, Heather, who I met when I was 5 years old, I only keep in touch with one other friend from the Nascar days of my...

   There are very little details that I know about this tape. I do know that it showed up in my P.O. box years ago with an accompanying z...

    It's 6 am. I've been awake for 20 hours and I won't get a chance to sleep for another few hours. I'm not complaining....

   In our world of instant music over-sharing and having every song in the world at your fingertips, I still think the mix tape is import...

   I'm convinced that there's something fucked up in the water supply of St Louis. I rode my bike around the banks of the river...

   Today, there will be no fanfare, art or long-winded stories of all the fun you missed (or caused). I'm very happy and honored to brin...

   Before we get into the music part, I just wanted to update you all on the Mediafire business (see here  for reference). The account is ...

   Well, the end of the year is approaching quickly, and traditionally it's a time when people start thinking about their favorite mus...

   In my last year of living in Bloomington, IN, I made a whole lot of mix tapes for friends, both locally and far away. I would sit in fr...

   Last night, I went to see a few films at The Roxie  that were loosely based on post-punk. The last movie they showed was a surprise scree...

   You know how when you live with a band and they practice in the basement, you always have all of their songs stuck in your head all the t...

   Ever since I posted the  FROZEN TEENS  demo a while back, I have been pretty fuckin' obsessed with it (to put it lightly). That obs...

   I totally "got" FULL SUN when I was sitting on top of Bernal Hill overlooking the city of SF and I was blasting this tape out o...

   This album (along with John Waters, THE CRAMPS and late night cable access exploitation movies) is responsible for warping my young brain...