Drums and bass for my new Options record are finished tracking, as of today. Coaster also has completed instrumental tracking for our new LP and will be starting vocals ASAP. My hands hurt from playing bass all day, but it's cool. Probably just means I should play bass more, right?

Finished tracking for Ratboys' LP, Great Deceivers' EP, and completing a couple more projects this week. It's all coming together, and now I have a nice heap of projects to mix! Imelda Marcos' LP and the Normal Years' EP both have been released, and pertinent links are located in the "recording" section of this site.

I've begun tracking my 4th solo full length with Matt Kissinger (Coaster) assisting me in engineering. Additionally, I'll be playing an Options show on my birthday with Great Deceivers, Nature's Neighbor, the New Diet, and Mitar. Holy shit. Yes.

For every moment when the time and effort spent feels debilitating and futile, the moments of unfettered energy and pure love give me a renewed perspective on why I make music in the first place. "Art is hard." I'm glad that I know so many people who focus with diligence on the creative process and treat music as an art form, as more than just a way to pass the time. Here are a few albums some of my friends have released this year. you should absolutely take a listen to them, especially if my music means anything to you.

About a Million - Home Sessions

Beso - Passive Indulgence

Mitar - Sayonara Sadness

You Me & the People - Mishiranuhito

Nnamdi Ogbonnaya - Feckin Weirdo

Arsenal - Christmas in Jail


Shelf Life - True Blue

Best Witches - Wishes

A new Lifted Bells song is out now via Alternative Press. We're playing FEST in Gainesville, FL on 11/1.

Nervous Passenger's new EP that I recorded and mixed is out now!

Bathing Resorts is a band I play guitar in with Michael Byrnes (Coaster) and Brendan Smyth (Nervous Passenger). We have been a band since the summer of 2013, but finally recorded and put out our first release this summer. I tracked the entire thing to 1/4" tape at the Owlery, and mixed it as well.

At the end of July, I released a split with a band called Brownie Mountain. They are awesome. I recorded the instrumentals to these songs on 1/4" tape, vocals through a cool and weird preamp into my computer, and Adam Beck from Brownie Mountain mixed them.