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

Are you bored listening to the same old cds, but don’t know where to begin looking for new music? Let me help! In this tutorial I give several different avenues for finding new music. Be it music blogs, podcasts, internet radio or asking around the old-fashioned way, I provide 5 different ways of finding new [...]

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Keelhaul; Aaron Dallison, Will Scharf, Dana Embrose, Chris Smith Photo Hydra Head Records “I’m a grown man; I should stop talking about poop so much.” Will Scharf has little filter between what he thinks and what comes out of his mouth. It’s endearing, sometimes shocking, and occasionally filled with the wisdom only 20 plus years [...]

Metal is easy to recognize. At its core, it’s the overly distorted, chunky guitars that sound like a derailed freight train chugging along the concrete. It’s snare hits that sound like exploding firecrackers over a rumbling double bass kick drum. It’s gnarled bass tones that fill the entire frequency spectrum. It’s the pushed vocal technique [...]