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I know everyone and their mother is going to be writing up a review of the new Wilco album (which doesn’t come out for another month, but which you can listen to on their website), but I thought I’d offer my two cents anyway.
Recently, I ran across this quote while reading a blog:
There is something [...]

I’m wearing Heelys, coasting down a long, gradual arc of paved road outside of town. It’s a beautiful late-afternoon outside and I am enjoying the fresh air, unaware as to how far this impossibly long stretch of smooth gradient is taking me from my apartment. Suddenly, the road I am on comes to and end, [...]

Here’s another clip of my band (Ragged Bay) playing at the Alchemist Theatre’s open mic night in May. The one for June is just a few weeks away!

A thing that I’ve learned about writing songs is that you should always start with the melody (or at least chord progression) first. I can’t believe it took me as long as it has to come to this conclusion, but I realized recently that of all the songs I’ve written for my band, the only [...]