Foxy Digitalis
Jeff Tobias makes music that won’t let us off the hook. His second solo album, One Hundredfold Now in This Age, channels two decades of work as a saxophonist, bassist, and keyboardist into something that feels like both a personal reckoning and a call to community. The arrangements are meticulous, the politics are front and […]
“Gimme Coherence” surges with a need that feels both political and personal, a kind of cracked anthem for those trying to hold it together in a world designed to unravel. Jeff Tobias threads broken synth lines and guitar exorcisms through driving rhythms, his voice balancing warmth with urgency, clarity with a hint of fray. “No […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s the return of Jeff Tobias!! In this first REMIXED episode, we tackle a whole new list of questions. We also talk about his busy 2024, the “Mandatory Liberation Vol. 1” compilation he released with Gold Bolus, and plenty more. After that, we get into Lindsey Buckingham’s […]
For this, the inaugural episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite New York composer and saxophonist, Jeff Tobias on the show. After a quick chat about Jeff’s latest album, Music from Milky Way Underground, we dig into memories of taxidermized squirrels using pipes as saxophones, bugs chilling with Rick Froberg, Jeff being dead inside, […]
A real heady pick today with Nicol Eltzroth Rosendorf’s “Internal Return.” It’ll get you. Plus some new offerings from The Gray Field Recordings, Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids, and Jeff Tobias. Wednesday episodes are exclusively on Patreon. Sign up now! Album of the Day: Nicol Eltzroth Rosendorf “Internal Return” Additional Links: Interview With Nicol Eltzroth RosendorfThe […]
Most of y’all probably didn’t see the announcement on Twitter earlier in the week, but starting Monday, I am launching the Foxy Digitalis Podcast. To start, it’ll be a daily episode, about 5-10 minutes long, featuring bits of news and an album of the day + review of said album. I’ve been doing it for […]
The 11th Hour is a podcast where two dudes in their 40s discuss a different Rancid song each week. They reflect on their lives, their (inexplicable) fandom, and why certain parts of our youth continue to hold meaning beyond simple nostalgia. Is it a midlife crisis or honest self-reflection? Join us on a journey to the […]
Tiers La Familia is a blown-out collision of so many divergent spirals that it’s hard to keep track. Bandleader Joe Sidney never lets up on their second album in the past six months, Active Cultures/Active Couture, this time for Jeff Tobias’s new label, Strategy of Tension. Sidney’s iron first productions are rapid speed blitzkriegs, covered in […]
Like Jeff Tobias’s fantastic Recurring Dream, this mix goes into all sorts of different zones. It never feels disconnected or random, always held together by a flowing thread. Beyond that, the way Tobias pieces the tracks together and the different sonic elements of each track, it’s reminiscent of Recurring Dream, or at least carries that same spirit […]