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“All My Heroes” by The Cancellations
2020 was a garbage year on so many levels, but every year as of late has its tragedies. One of the hazards of growing older, I suppose—watching other people not. Tragedy, however awful, breeds incredible art, and so there was a massive influx of beauty in this terrible year. This song was written in 2018…
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“Why Do I” – smooth summer pop jam from Steel Bridge Songfest
If you’re not familiar with the SBSF “Construction Zone,” it’s essentially a big rat king of songwriters with all our creative tails irreparably intertwined. We spin the bottle (literally; it’s a Jameson bottle) to choose our writing groups and then get to work crafting a sweet ditty from nothing. This lil’ bop is the result…
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“Four Lights” – new release from The Cancellations for Dark Songs 2020
Folks who I’m close with know that I have a band called The Cancellations, started several years ago with my partner Joe and one of our best friends, Derek Brady. Derek was a killer guitarist & all-around wonderful weirdo. He passed away a couple months before we moved to Nashville in 2018. I’d held out…
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“Ghosted” – new release from Dark Songs 2020
This was the only bottle spin I did for Dark Songs this year, but it turned out badass. We had a little trouble getting rolling, but when we heard the “snippet” version of this that Loren had created, we knew it deserved to be fleshed out into a full song. Hear & watch all of…
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“This Is Not Over” – New Release from Dark Songs 2020
I’ve loved this tune since it was written by my good “song family” friends Andrea Wittgens & Vincent Gates back at Dark Songs 2012. It has the #crazyexgirlfriend vibe, which may or may not have been my, uh, signature back then. Since the festivals have gone virtual, the writers have been doing tributes (aka covers)…
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on the selfishness of living childfree
I recall getting into a heated philosophical discussion with my roommate over why I couldn’t get into a scifi show he was binging. The premise: a litany of sexy ladies in skimpy space outfits and other human characters float through space on a ship many years after Earth has been destroyed. Pretty standard, right? Well,…
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millennial career dysphoria and the crisis of aging in an undervalued workforce
Some friends stayed with us for a week. After the requisite beer-and-whiskey emotional loosening of discussion, we fell onto career topics. Chorlad (not his real name, or a real name at all for that matter) works in customer service. The typical phone + desk = getting yelled at 9-5 that many of our brethren have…