My band has shows + here are the bands w/which I'm playing

My personal pan pizza pet project Freeze is slated to play The Central Saloon today (Thurs 9/15), and The Lair (blue house next to Lo-Fi on Eastlake) on Saturday.

Two weeks ago, I played Black Zia Cantina--nice people working there, punk vibe, cheap drinks, New Mexico-themed, 10/10 would recommend--which was kind of like a practice run for me. My last show as Freeze was at Lo-Fi about six months ago. Since then, my wife and I changed jobs, summer flew by, and my kids started school. Last August, I suddenly had three shows lined up for September, and another way out in December. When it rains, it pours.

New Ghostblood song: Eviscerama

Ghostblood just released a new song, "Eviscerama." This is some impressive, clean-sounding, dirty thrash and speed metal. Right up my alley. Full disclosure: I know these guys. However, that is not what made me post this song. I posted because it fukkin ripps.

Anthony Fantano's "It Came From Bandcamp" series is a delightful romp thru indie gems

Anthony Fantano, The Internet's Busiest Music Nerd ®™, has a great series on his YouTube channel, entitled "It Came From Bandcamp," where he briefly reviews strange, odd, and often funny projects found on Bandcamp.

White Lung: "Paradise" review

Paradise (May 2016, Domino), is White Lung's best-produced, and most ambitious record yet. Right off the bat, it's the classic White Lung sound we love, but with more variation, nuance, and with a bend slightly more toward the exploratory. I love it, I've been listening to it all day today. It's a brand new album, with a mostly brand new sound—White Lung has few contemporaries, thanks in large part to their guitarist Kenneth William. As I understand it, he wrote most of the material here, and worked really hard with the producer to give this album its sound. They had a mind to modernity, of which I'm always a big fan. The past sucked. We can do better, with music, with everything. White Lung personifies that future-facing mentality here on Paradise.

I gave Weezer's "Weezer (White Album)" three listens and I gotta say it's pretty good, plus the last album was good too

Weezer released Weezer (White Album) this month, on April 1, 2016. Being an old school fan of this band, and even having covered some of their songs, and even having taught myself to play guitar by playing along to Weezer, I gave it a shot, and an honest one—I listened to it three times from front to back. Being a short album, that wasn't an issue.

Freeze takes black, thrash metal in amazing new directions

(read: PUFF PIECE ON MY OWN DRIVEL)

Hey y'all, I just made this stuff. Got a show at the Lo-fi on April 03. Come out! Watch me shred. It'll sound like a full band, with me being playing guitar and killing the vocals.



It will be the first time doing a show on my lonesome.

Listen: Pale Chalice, "Negate the Infinite and Miraculous"

This is a band featuring the dude from Mastery.

I give you Pale Chalice, from the Bay Area—a wonderful place for black metal.