Foxy Digitalis
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 […]
Jeff Tobias wears a lot of hats (not literally, thankfully, because look at those beautiful locks on that album cover! I digress…), but on his debut solo record, he uses all those experiences to sculpt a twisted, delightful vision of pop-music-that’s-not-really-pop-music out of an angular heap of neon junk. Recurring Dream jumps between so many different ideas […]