One of my most nostalgic CD's (20 years ago on cassette tape) was the Rolling Stones Hot Rocks compilation with a Matryoshka Doll looking profile of the band members heads as the cover. This compilation was what inaugurated the sounds of the "British Bad-asses" to my young ears well before I could form complete sentences. Though I love Exile on Main Street and Sticky Fingers, my go to is Hot Rocks for the Stones... It is one of the few band compilation disks that I think is worth a damn.
Robert Delong... "we know him."
Our friend Robert DeLong and the drummer for the WILD UNKNOWN has exploded into the upper echelons of music careerness and signed with GLASSNOTE records. He has been carving out a genre of his own mixing intelligent dance music with indie songwriting. Imagine the musical genius of David Bazan and Daft Punk having a child that looked like Win Butler from the Arcade Fire and played video game controllers converted into instruments... this is our friend Robert DeLong.
Before he left us to eat at the "big boys table" he left us with a re-mix of REMINDER off our last album DIMES. Check it out:
Fishermen - Live
We have recently been asked to put on some simple live performances. So, every month in addition to releasing some new music, I will also be releasing a live video of one of our songs or a cover tune. The first of those is the song Fisherman off our last album Wild Unknown.
Late Night in LA - Scoring Project
An instrumental I have put together for the free music monthly. This song feels like moody LA industrial rock. The picture I chose is an older photo of our drummer Jordan Vena. This track reminds me of him... brash and sentimental. It could have been his soundtrack to leaving work at the museum in downtown LA, getting on the train and heading east.
The River
A country orchestration I put together for the new music monthly. I am still wandering around in that same space creatively from which Wild Unknown was created. This piece has a sense of wander and mystery. I see two young friends driving a "beat to shit" chevy c-10 along country interstate road into the afternoon leaving something behind and driving into the unknown.
The Buffalo Arrive
Here is the NEW MUSIC for June. This is a short film I put together for a series of web videos I was hired to do about a land project in Montana named the Yellowstone Ranch Preserve (YRP).
This first shoot was in May as spring moved in slowly the bison migrated from Yellowstone National Park to the YRP to give birth to their cavles. These animals are sort of magical in my mind. They move in massive herds of 50 to 100 early in the morning and disband during the day into smaller pockets across the buttes of the property. All of the footage I shot was with an iphone... this makes the shot half way through the video incredible.