I am currently sitting in a Starbucks using their free wifi in the fantastic city of San Francisco. I’m out here doing a freelance audio visual tech gig with my friend Ian McDermott’s company. I flew out on Saturday morning, and today was the first day of real work. I spent most of today in [...]

I’m a huge Cave In fan. After being introduced to them via Chris Henningfeld back in 2006 when Chris was still the bass player of my old band, I’ve consumed all of their records. From 99′s metalcore masterpiece Until Your Heart Stops to last year’s EP Planets of Old, they’ve rarely miss-stepped (in fact, if [...]

Top 10 “heavy” albums of ’10 so far Rotting Christ — AEALO Daughters — Daughters Fuck the Facts — Unnamed EP Throats — Throats Kvelertak — Kvelertak Harvey Milk — s/t Nails — Unsilent Death Deftones — Diamond Eyes Alcest — Écailles de Lune Early Graves — Goner Top 10 non-heavy albums of ’10 so [...]

today i will be listening to new to me music & tweeting quick reviews with the hashtag #nwms (for new music) hope you enjoy M83 “Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts” 3.5/5 A synth heavy spacewalk that soars more often than bores. Mars rover as drum machine #nwms Om “Pilgrimage” 3/5 Transcendental stoner metal, [...]

Well, one of the problems anyway. ABC just launched a fun, kind of terrifying, mystical, psychological murder mystery called Happytown. Great show so far. I’ve seen two episodes that you can also see at Hulu. It reminds me of one of my all time favorite TV dramas, and one you should all see if you [...]

Last night I was feeling a bit crafty so I decided to do a bit of work on the old PILOTS myspace page (who uses myspace anymore anyway?) The page had been lacking a nice header image of us for quite a while (years maybe?) So I took one my favorite photos of us from [...]

I forget to mention this in the previous post about album #6. Zao’s most lasting influence on my guitar playing from their album (Self-Titled) was my choice of fiddle. Scott Mellinger’s axe of choice was an ESP LTD Viper, so naturally I too played an ESP LTD Viper. He played a black one, but I [...]

Jucifer’s “L’Autrichienne” 4/5 The soundtrack to Terminator starring Clint Eastwood directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. In a word: Trippy #nwms Daath’s “The Concealers” 3.5/5 Entombed/Repulsion-esque death metal, slick production, endlessly heavy #howfire: 7 #nwms The Flaming Lips’ “Embryonic” 3.5/5 More noir, noisy & paranoid than Kirby’s Dreamland, suffers from being too long (18 tracks!) #nwms Propagandhi’s [...]

Behemoth’s “Evangelion” 4.5/5 Musical Lord of the Rings epic with Sauron winning. Heaviest blackened death metal cd til judgement day #nwms im going to also start ascribing a #howfire level to these #nwms records on a scale of Jane Doe (10) to #crabcore (-10) #nwms Behemoth’s #howfire score is a 6 #nwms Hatebreed’s “Perseverence” 2.5/5 [...]

today i will be listening to new to me music & tweeting quick reviews with the hashtag #nwms (for new music) hope you enjoy about 17 hours ago from mobile web first up: Unsane’s 2007 “Visqueen” #nwms about 17 hours ago from Twitterrific Unsane “Visqueen” 3/5 Loud, noisy NYC stoner post-hardcore/grunge with a chip on [...]