Cleveland: The Spotlight On Playlist
This playlist is about my time at Cleveland High School in Seattle, WA and getting ready to leave.
Right before I moved was the hardest part...The playlist is a time capsule from May to June.
Henry Peryer
Grapes Upon The Vine tests my faith.
Two weeks after its release, Grapes Upon The Vine might be my favorite TV Girl album. [RECORD SCRATCH] You might be wondering how I got here.
A month ago, I was in a great place. An infant TV Girl fan, their music soundtracked a new summer romance, and as my
I fall for Gorillaz' The Fall.
Gorillaz' The Fall is a full-length album recorded in a month, on an iPad, during the band's Escape To Plastic Beach Tour. If that sounds like a good 45 minutes to you, you might also dig this post. If you're unfamiliar with the Gorillaz, I&
It's not too late to love Too Late To Love You. (Damn, I'm on a roll)
My dad and I co-wrote an alternate version of Too Late To Love You's title track in 2021. We were in a dive bar off I-65, with robot bandmates Johnny and Junebug, playing Kentucky Route Zero. The game is mostly reading, but it's marinated in ambient
Sitting with Satoshi Ashikawa's Still Way.
Okay. I'm going out on a limb this week, I hope you'll join me.
In adapting writing for this column from my blog, I've focused the Spotlight On albums that I both had already written about at length, and was excited to revisit in
The Mattson 2: Vaults Of Eternity: Japan
Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2's Star Stuff was my first exposure to both Chaz Bundick and The Mattson 2 and I think it's gotta be their best work. That album would make for a good post, actually, if we weren't just coming off
Toro y Moi: Outer Peace
Welcome back to week three of the Spotlight On Blog's Three Weeks Of Toro y Moi Albums Event. That's what it's called I just decided. Two Tuesdays ago, for its birthday, we started things off with MAHAL, the act's latest outing. Then