The new Beat The Smart Kids is out on all streamings, and more importantly https://btskska.bandcamp.com/album/30-minutes-or-less their bandcamp, where you can actually give them money for it.
Supposedly this is me on the cover, delivering their album, as a pizza. I didn’t mix it that fast, but I was definitely making that face the whole time.
A LONG time coming, the first Blood People ‘full length’ (a lot of classic albums are only 8 tracks long) is out! Stream it for now, vinyl in the new year. Some of these songs are years old, live standards, some of them are brand new, never heard before, but all of them sound like Blood People. Twas a pleasure to record and a dream to mix. There’s a decent amount of hardware involved. A lot of the weird delays are from my Roland DEP-5, and all of the theremin haunting is courtesy of Mr. Springy 500 series spring reverb. Mr. Springy on The Remin!
I recently joined a band called Lavisher, on the drums, and we wrote an album. I was insistent that I didn’t want to record, I just wanted to play drums, so we went to Bricktop Recording in Chicago to work with Pete Grossman. The drum room there is incredible. Very high ceilings, one big brick wall. The room mics are the snare sound. It was a very ear-opening experience. Then we went to Ohmstead to track guitars with Adrian Kobziar, another humbling and educational experience. We tracked vocals at Chucks and Adrian mixed the whole thing pretty quickly. Listen to Lavisher – Aligned & Vital on all the usual streams, or buy the vinyl from our bandcamp.
The new Beat The Smart Kids album is done, tentatively titled ’30 minutes or less’, a double entendre referencing the short run time and their propensity for ordering pizza. They’re waiting on the vinyl to release it in the new year, but wanted to get a single out before they made their <a href=’https://www.facebook.com/thefestfl/‘>Fest</a> debut. Listen to Bad Influencer on their bandcamp.
https://btskska.bandcamp.com/track/bad-influencerLavisher made a video with a car and back projection (not green screen!) It came out awesome thanks to Sarah and Melzer who know what they’re doing, which is very important. I’ve always said it’s easy to make a mediocre music video. Making a good one takes skills.
Whipped’s fourth EP, Bad Altar, is available in all the places, including bandcamp, where you can pick up a 12″ vinyl record, with our second EP, Future No Brainers, on the flip side. Two EPs for the price of one!
https://whipped.bandcamp.com/album/bad-altarI’ve been playing bass for Still Alive for a few shows. I believe I am Still Alive’s 17th bassist. Our friend Eric did a decent stint as bassist (he preferred a six string) until he died in 2019. This song is a tribute to him.
Whipped finally made an actual music video, with bicycles. The EP is out on 12″ in October.
The Beat The Smart Kids album, HOT DEATH, as well as being available on all streaming platforms, now lives on 45 rpm slime green 12″ vinyl. Head over to their bandcamp and grab one for yourself.
Some of the music I wrote back in October in Brighton for Extreme is finally up on their website. This is seriously the best I can do for a link. I really don’t understand why wordpress won’t let you html anymore.
https://www.extrememusic.com/albums/4167?matchingTracks=WzY0ODUzLDY0ODU0LDY0ODU1LDY0ODU2XQ%3D%3D
Chuck's Vegetable Stand 