I am excited to announce I have a new album that will be released May 14, 2019 by Astro Lizard Records.  There are eleven songs and the album's title is Down In The Wash.  I'll be sharing the album's cover art next week on this blog.  In the meantime, you can listen to the very first single from Down In The Wash.  It's titled Mojave Moonlight and it's available on the compilation album Euro House Concert Hub: Looking for Europe Collection from The Medicine Show Records. It's Track #4.

Later this spring, we'll be kicking off the album's release with a UK tour.  Hold tight!  Dates coming soon! 

This week, The L.A. Record ran an interview with Terry Six (Terry & Louie, The Exploding Hearts) and Ardavon Fatehi who is the director for an impending feature-length documentary about The Exploding Hearts.  Reading the interview was like taking a time machine back to 2003.  It sure sounded like Adam Baby was in the room.  I should also note that the article was written by Clorox Girl, Justin Maurer. 

I hope you take the time to read the whole article.  I think it will make you laugh.  It will help you remember what punk rock was like before everyone had a camera in their pocket.  There's also a little bit of information in the article about one of my own projects.  I'll be telling you more about that soon.  Meanwhile, enjoy the picture below.

I produced and engineered this album from one-time Timbuk 3 frontman, Pat MacDonald at my sixteen track Portland basement recording gutter, Studio 13.  We began tracking in October or November of 2005 and wrapped up mixes early in 2006.  Both Pat and I were going through some rough times.  We were both ending long term relationships.  Take a listen.  You can hear the pain coming off the Troubadour's performance.  You can hear the darkness in my mixes and production.  Almost all of what you hear is Pat MacDonald laying down a live performance in his one man band format.  The drum sound is Pat's home-made stomp box construction - a wood box with a D-112 kick drum mic inside.  The mic was run through guitar effect pedals and sent to an amplifier.  I took it DI and I mic'd the cabinet.  We would occasionally double track a vocal or add some percussion or hand claps.  An Ibanez AD202 was my main delay used for this album. It was released in 2007.  This album came from some really dark days.  But I'm so happy I got to spend that time with Pat MacDonald.  We made some great music.

iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/troubadour-of-stomp/291780642
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3BbQK4c3bpmJq2IAExtiTF

Back in 2007, The Clorox Girls released an album called J'Aime Les Filles which I produced, engineered and mixed at my short lived studio, The Color Lab in Portland, OR.  The Color Lab was in the old Paramount Films building and included a film vault that was used as an echo chamber.  I wish I had that studio for a longer time. 

It sure is nice to find out that twelve years later, instrumental tracks are still finding their place on the internet.  Here's an instructional video that demonstrates how to make your own crotch bulge.  Perfect use for a song called Stuck in a Hole.  But I still think they should have used Banana Split from the same album.