[This is an amalgam of information from the front page of my website from the past few years, just gathered in one place toward the end of 2018. Here is info on my solo material, my work with Øresund Space…
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2018 updates
Hi, it’s been over a year since I wrote anything here. Partially it was because I wrote that thing about the New Pornographers and then apparently AC Newman read it, and then I saw them play and talked to him…
The New Pornographers’ “Whiteout Conditions” and my interpretation thereof.
So far I’ve refrained from writing ‘reviews’ of albums or other music or bands to this extent. I’ve written an awful lot about music, of course, (well, mostly my own, see every other blog post) and its interpretation and/or effect,…
Very Brief Tour Diary, Winter 2016-17
From Dec 27, 2016 to Jan 21, 2017, I was on tour with Camper Van Beethoven (playing with Cracker, as per usual) in the United States. Overall, this was an amazing tour, not just from the point of view of…
Tagged with: Camper Van Beethoven, concert, live shows, Music, My Life, Portland, rock music
Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Music, Touring
Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Music, Touring
An end of summer update
This is directly from my website‘s news, but I thought it should exist forever here also because I’m proud of all of these musical adventures. Here are many recent (2016) musical additions to the world on the web: SHALE is Tom…
Playing music for the purpose of music.
A couple weekends ago I went to Copenhagen to play a doom rock festival with Øresund Space Collective, the release for “Ode to a Black Hole”. It was a punk rock youth center, tons of doomy bands, really quite something.…
Part 4 – Punk as fuck.
The next weekend’s gig was an opening slot for The Dead Pollys, and then I would sit in with them as well. They are a punk band. Straight up, though a bit celtic-influenced. The singer, Niclas, or Nizze, is a…
A full April, continued (part 2)
At this point, after a couple recording days, I had hours of audio to sort through, several pieces from Eastman and several from Roth Händle, though I had to wait for the files from Mattias Olsson because he likes to…
Not a tour diary.
I intended to write a tour diary of the Camper Van Beethoven shows with Cracker that we did on the West Coast and the East Coast between Christmas and the Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend. But I didn’t. The…
Tagged with: digital utopianism, Europe, government, history, improvised music
Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, etc., Music, Philosophy, Technology, Touring
Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, etc., Music, Philosophy, Technology, Touring
just a little bragging.
This is not the normal internet-style humble-brag, I’m actually bragging. I don’t do that often…or at least not overtly. But check it out—our family of musicians has a ton of records out, and a ton just recently. And they’re all…
Tagged with: Camper Van Beethoven, concert, David Lowery, history, live shows, Recorded Music
Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Music, Touring
Posted in Camper Van Beethoven, Music, Touring
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