Remote Outposts

    Upon arriving for our last show of tour in Zarautz in the Basque Country a couple of weeks ago, our band was tired, kinda sick and fr...

    These stupid little CD-R's are not built to last and I found this one rolling around in the bottom of a filing cabinet, all scrat...

   This one has been a tough one to get around to writing and going into it right now, I'm not even exactly sure what I'm going t...

    Believe or not, sometimes I don't have a story or the reference points or the "members of" list or anything to go on. E...

    Tapes like these are the reason I started the blog. Trying to track down these nearly ephemeral documents of a scream in dark warehou...

    Recently, a personal mission landed me in Minneapolis for a few days and I arrived with high hopes and too many plans. As someone who...

    When I wrote about JACOB THE TERRIBLE's demo , I said just about everything I could possibly say about the band. By the band'...

   What the fuck is up? I've been thinking about the ghosts that you see when you walk down the street and you can only look at your ...

   Today, I went to a yard sale in Oakland and ran into a tiny boatload of cassettes. Of course, I was drawn to them like a moth to a fla...

   One night, I walked over to a show in north Chattanooga at a house with a falling in kitchen (one night, that kitchen's floor fell...

   This is the 511th post on this blog, which is a large number but by no means a milestone. I just wanted to take a moment to say thanks...

   Basically, everything I wanted to write here could be a re-hash of all of the things I wrote in the previous entry , so I'll spare...

   The other night in my room, a compilation of bands was playing on my stereo. Most of them were good, but when ROBOT POPE came on, I pu...

    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....

   Just after the new year of 2008, I was a roadie, on tour with my friends from California when I still lived in Indiana. At that point,...

    Last night, I was on the train blasting this tape into my earholes as I tried to tune out the rest of the world, so it (the world) wo...

   I had to take a break from the blog for a minute to move my hundreds and hundreds of tapes to a different location (in addition to a...

   This tape is a companion piece to the  DICK VAN DYKES  post from yesterday because it was recorded on the same day in the same place w...

   The fun thing about making a mix tape for yourself is that you don't have to give a fuck. You can jump to different genres and not...

   I wish that US DIY musicians had access to a magical free recording studio where they could take in their crappy, duct taped instrumen...