Rather than attempt to untangle the layers of chaos applying constant pressure over the last couple of months—some we all feel, others are more localized to my own existence—I’ll just get straight to photos and music.
If you’ve spent any time online over the last 15 years using search, social, and e-commerce platforms, you’ve experienced enshittification. There are plenty of examples out there. I'm not one of them.
If you’re here for the photos, the music, to read my blatherings, or if I just never showed up in your inbox enough for you to bother unsubscribing…I’m glad you’re here.
This is English stoner doom band Electric Wizard, live at The Warfield in San Francisco (April 30, 2018), complete with crushingly high volume and seizure inducing video accompaniment comprised of flashing, brightly colored psychedelic artwork superimposed over biker movies and Satan worshiping smut films from the 1960s. It all worked really well together.
These three photos were taken with Lightroom
When I’m not holding down the fuzzed out, fucked up low send in The Loyalists, I have some occasional musical inclinations that lean toward something different.
I started work on this mellow little joint last year, and got lost along the way (not that there’s much to it to get lost in, but that’s just how life
Ride the Trashheap of Sound by The Loyalists
I play the electric bass in The Loyalists, a noise rock band from Oakland, CA. We're a four-piece — bass, guitar, drums and cello (the cello player also plays guitar on some songs) — and we pride ourselves on making a pretty foul racket.
We've got a new album, our
Here's a quick & dirty jam with a crappy mix. I started by sampling the bass line from Lalo Shiffrin's Bullitt theme, and went from there. The drums are canned / programmed (not sampled), and the strange, funky chorus part was made with a Dave Smith Instruments MoPho — an analog, monophonic synth.
I'm going through
