Seven years ago yesterday I arrived in Los Angeles. A fresh-faced 24 year old with all of his belongings (minus most of his belongings) packed tight in the back of his red…

Today, May 5th (Cinco de Mayo) marks the seven year anniversary of my arrival in Los Angeles. On April 29th, 2007 I departed from New Jersey in my red Volvo, with little…

An Album A Day entry number thirty concludes week six of this project (the theme of which has been the Nurse With Wound List) with one final gasp of progressive rock from…

Boy, we sure are flying through week 6 of my An Album A Day project. I hope you have had a chance to read up on these albums and hear the sample…

We’re humming right along this week in our initial exploration (I’m sure there will be more!) of the Nurse With Wound List. For those of you who haven’t seen Monday and Tuesday’s…

The continuation of Nurse With Wound List week finds us visiting the world of Art Zoyd. The French band that formed in 1968 and traversed free jazz, prog and avant-garde electronic music…

Welcome to week six of the Swan Fungus 2014 An Album A Day project, in which I devote the “business days” portion of the week to exploring different records in my collection.…

Happy birthday to me. Forever alone. You know something? The late, great Muddy Waters was also born during the month of April (4/4/15). He also died five days after I was born,…

Happy birthday, Fabio Orsi! You were born a few weeks ago (April 6th) but you’re ONE OF US — those born during the month of April — and thus are worthy of…

You know who just celebrated a birthday last week? Fellow April child John Twells (aka Xela, and co-founder of Type Records). I met John the first night of the Bottling Smoke festival…