CROSSED WIRES

This week’s flashback features the exact song that sparked my interest in more aggressive music. I was wandering around in middle school with a friend and he told me that I had to listen to a song that he had heard because “They start with synth, and then follow it with guitar, and it’s awesome.” With just that unbelievably vague description, and only because my friend recommended it as “awesome”, I went home to listen to this very song. After I listened to the song I listened to the rest of the album “Alaska”. Then I listened to their older stuff, and then to “Alaska” again. From there I’ve followed the bands every move over the years. It’s hard to describe how important this band is to me. I know it sounds weird and dramatic when people say that. But it’s absolutely the case. This band is really important to me. It’s not a secret to anyone that Between the Buried and Me absolutely oozes talent. But they are a band with an awesome arch of development. When I started listening...

MINIFOOGERS.COM

This is an entry I wrote while over in Australia and have been sitting on it until now. I have been meaning to post entries I write while on tour more on here but have just been lazy about it. So here I am trying to be productive with this whole blogging thing (but is that even a thing anymore?). Either way here is a little piece I wrote up after our first day on tour in Australia.  The last few weeks have been pretty crazy for me. What I thought would be just a few weeks of traveling ended up to be about 14 straight. My off time however was well spent at home watching Twin Peaks and hanging out with my girlfriend and dog. While having no social life and no job I've realized that you can potentially endanger a lot of great friendships by not going out and being social. Maybe it was the post Christmas Winter depression that was causing me to sit in my room annoying my dog with repetitive guitar solos over every song I would listen to. Walter (dog) really doesn't app...

Recently I stopped by one of my favorite record stores just to browse around and kill some time. Whenever I go in with a plan to find a gem, or something specific that I have been wanting I never end up finding anything. So, I thought that I would better my luck by going into Angry Mom Records in search of nothing. After pondering through stacks of used and new records this record just popped right up was immediately brushed aside for no one else to grab. At a first glance I thought that maybe I had just found a reissue as many of their albums from their discography have been repressed lately. But, this wasn't. In fact it was an original press on UK label Creation Records.  I was shocked at my find, and even more stunned by the price tag of nine dollars. I did what any record nerd would do and look at the condition and the insert to see if maybe it was a bootleg, and much to my luck it wasn't. I don't look for records simply based on what they are potentially worth o...

After a great year for new music, I’ve found myself listening to albums on repeat more and more. I’m aware of the popular opinion that the practice of repeat listening could kind of “wear out” the songs, but frankly that rarely happens to me. I stand firm with saying screw it, if it’s good enough to want to listen to it on a loop, I’ll do it. But, in the interest of not seeming like an absolute monster, I’ve decided to switch it up. So I looked back into my iTunes, which is something that I recommend doing. It’s such a trip to look back into your collection. Looking through I found so many forgotten artists. Being that I enjoy finding new bands, it’s inevitable that some will get lost. But the rebirth of these bands was exciting enough to want to share. So in the first installment of Weekly Flashback, I present Mew. Mew is an awesome Danish band that I used to listen to when I was in middle and high school. I honestly have no idea how I found them or who showed them to be, b...