Our long running band Permanent Makeup has completed all work on our new album and the July 24, 2026 is imminent at the time of this typing. We completed initial recordings of music for this project in January of 2020, and then we had a world breaking pandemic and Susan
In a way this is kind of cheating: a complete reworking of songs previously released in the exact same order, ditching live acoustic guitar and voice recordings for electric guitar, voice and fake drum versions. There was an internal need for immediacy and vulnerability in October, 2025 from me, so
Beginning a new rash of riff creation by tuning every string of my Bass VI to B. 3 octaves of B, each string doubled. I created 1 drum track and used it twice for 2 separate instrumental songs, 1 a planned and written repetitive riff and the second a free
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I'm hosting a cube draft event beginning November 30 and on the books for every other Sunday until we get tired of doing it. I'm a gamer at heart, and a standing appointment seems like the best way to grow this idea. Let's start
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This week I released an album of acoustic and voice songs that I'm using to explore repetition. Historically, I'm not a patient musician, and my musical output over the years could easily be characterized as frenetic and squiggly intensity. Please check it out and let me
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In France there is a tradition of "gleaning" that allows people to scour fields after harvests and take any left behind crops for their families. Agnès Varda's 2000 masterpiece Les glaneurs et la glaneues (The Gleaners and I) explores abundance and sharing excess through the relationship
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Ever since I was fortunate enough to find the LP Feral Hymns by Lungfish in around 2005 at Vinyl Fever in Tampa simply by following the beacon of the Dischord records logo on the back, the mystery of the band's repetitive riffs and obtuse and mystical lyrics have
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The repetitions continue, this time capturing 3 songs. Geosynchronous Drain Plastic staring eyes And amputated tearducts The excavator pulling Punched out computer tape Coded suppressed emotions A faulty psuedo cosmos A drain A drain A drain A drain A geosynchronous drain Malignant design If i could just insert A reality
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Street Eaters has been one of my favorite bands since sometime in 2011 when my band Blast & the Detergents randomly and fortunately played a show with them in a basement of the legendary house Brown Town in Athens, Ohio when we were both on tour. This was an especially
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A music writing project based upon repetition, each song only contains 1 riff and no changes. Teaching myself patience and demolishing my comfort zone of frenetic attack music. Also, my favorite music writing is collaborative, so pushing against that grain and solo writing on these. I have hopes to turn
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September 6, 2025 welcome home from DIY tour for the incredible Tampa band Gnats. Excellent documentation of a sampling of each set by the hero https://www.youtube.com/@DaviedinTheCrowd allows those of us who were there to relive, and for anyone else to catch the vibe of this Florida
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A couple photo series from the Concrete Peninsula. 1: The natural order pushing against the applied geometric design of human hands? 2. Parking lot:
