Today I had the disquieting and surreal feeling of what it might be like to witness my own eulogy. A collection of videos "magically" appeared on YouTube. My...

"Youahhhight?", Paul asked me as we loaded our bags into the van at Heathrow Airport in January of 1996. I had no idea what he just asked me. "What's that ag...

A few months back, John Nawodylo, aka Smidge, sat down with me at my house and interviewed me for his podcast, Gunkcast. It turns out his band, Tokyo Expando...

Rock and roll is dead to me. It feels that way inside of my heart. My head tries to make sense of it and argue against it. But it was not my head that convin...

I have always loved the big, blustery, anxious and anthemic American rock bands. Husker Du, Snatches of Pink, Drivin n Cryin, Prisonshake, the Replacements a...

I can say lots of stuff about the music of Kraftwerk, but most of it has been said a million times before by people much more perceptive and analytical than ...

My recollections of the second Fire Show release are sketchy at best. So I decided to listen to Track #8 which contains the credits read aloud by Seth aka Ol...

I can trust the liner notes for the first Fire Show LP more than I can trust my own memory. More often than not, if I am not romanticizing past experiences, ...

In 2012, Resplendent was on life support. Meaning, I was burned out. Nothing felt fresh any more. Even though I was playing drums with a band, I had been on ...

In 2004, I started and finished this record. It felt like a big accomplishment at the time. I had a lot of help from my friend Derek Cullimore on guitar. Nor...

At the tale end of 2003, I completed Casket City Wolves. It was and is my favorite EP from the trilogy. I am partial to how it takes elements of I and II and...

In Spring of 2003, I recorded Resplendent II: Wings Beneath The Sills with a few of the same characters I used on the first EP. What strikes me now in revisi...

It is hard to believe that it was 2002, 17 years ago, when I recorded the first of a series of three Resplendent Eps. In A Wilderness is the first. I am slow...

I was talking the other day with my friend and bandmate Seth Kim-Cohen (Number One Cup, The Fire Show, Nil/Resplendent), and the subject of last songs on our...

Rites of Spring came along at a time in my life when I was primed for them. I was in college, staring down graduation. My impression was that everyone else h...

Jay Spiegel was the drummer for the D.C. band the Velvet Monkeys. When I met him at the ripe old age of 17, I had no idea how influential he would be. We wer...

Most punk music is anyone's music, but it belongs to a very specific anyone-one who wants to do a little work. One who wants to invest themselves in somethin...

I have found that in times of dysfunction, simple moments are what I remember and savor. Stuff that is unremarkable when viewed in isolation but has great si...

In 1973, when I was 6 years old, my dad got a job in Clearwater, Florida in real estate. He had a hard time keeping jobs so this was a big deal. He was an al...

He might be a father, but he sure ain't a dad. --Androgynous, The Replacements I have a need to understand who my father was. There is not much information a...