Jack Buck and Coward tour the midwest Photo by Chase Macri On January 12-14th, the bands Jack Buck and Coward set out across the midwest to play four shows in three days. The tour, entitled the “Home Turf” tour, went through each of the three cities the members of the bands live: Kansas City, Columbia [...]

For their EP My Heart Is The Eastern Horizon, the Nashville band Clemency decided to release each of the EP’s five songs individually a month at a time as singles, a tactic bands are increasingly exploring. But what makes Clemency unique is each single was also released as a music video. “We’ve never really shot [...]

Video of Kevin Harris performing at Floating Labs Floating Laboratories is one of a crop of new underground, do-it-yourself venues hosting alternative, experimental and noise music in St. Louis. Most of the events are spread through word of mouth, or announced via blog posts on sites like Josh Levi’s Flood Yr Face blog (check out [...]

Josh Levi Interview by chasemacri The word “success” can mean many things. It can be measured by the level of income an individual makes a year. It can be shown by owning a house, a car, by having a certain prestige in your field or title at your job. For musicians, “success” could be having [...]

Photo by Anthony Ryan Tripoli Michael Gerhardt is a unique individual. Bassist of Jack Buck, a St. Louis, MO based hardcore noise rock band, Gerhardt has played in bands for more than ten years. Starting in high school punk bands, Gerhardt has played guitar, bass, drums and lead vocals in groups of all styles and [...]

Fifteen years is a long time to be doing anything. It is an especially long time for a band. On Friday November 18th, The Conformists celebrated fifteen years of playing music together. Despite the joyous setting, the evening was also bittersweet as the bands vocalist, Mike Benker, feels that fifteen years is enough for him. [...]

The above video is an example of basic video storytelling that describes the songwriting process of the band Jack Buck. The bands songs are melodically disharmonic and rhythmically complicated, and their assembly involves more counting than it does feel initially. The video shows the band working through their songs and was shot in the bands [...]

Jucifer is an institution. The Athens, Georgia duo consisting of married couple Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood have been making music and touring constantly for the past eighteen years. Recently via the bands Twitter account, Valentine and Revolver Magazine editor-in-chief Brandon Giest got into a war of words over Revolver’s annual special issue entitled “The [...]

This photo slideshow details the process my band, Jack Buck, underwent to produce a record. The photos shows us practicing, recording, mixing, mastering, and finally, reproducing “Ugly”, our debut 7″. I have included narration detailing the entire process while illuminating the photos and including one of the songs from the 7″ as the soundtrack. “Ugly” [...]

The following 1 minute podcast is a quick review of the band KEN mode‘s live performance at Cafe Berlin in Columbia, MO on Saturday, October 15th, 2011. Click here for my live review of KEN mode