Welcome!

I was planning on starting a music blog as a new years resolution to put my thoughts to use (or at least write some of them down), but i decided why wait.

let me tell you a bit about myself...

1) In the past year i graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in Management Science.


2) I'm 22 years old and have no idea what i want to do with the rest of my life (well i do but quarterbacking the San Diego Chargers is probably a bit unrealistic at this point)



3) I'm kind of a pop culture junkie, but that is a side effect from my mass intake of television, movies, music, sports and to a certain extent books.

4) I love to use parenthesis and sometimes forget to capitalize words (but you probably noticed that already)

5) i tried to do this a few years ago, and failed miserably (i.e. stopped), so hang in there as i work out the kinks and try to figure out how to make this good.

perhaps now i should explain the future content of this site. right now i'm thinking daily themes (i.e. Throwback Thursday, etc.), where i will proceed to post hopefully some rare tracks, b-sides, covers, live songs, and of course some of my favorites off of specific albums. all the while interjecting information and my thoughts/opinions on the artist's that i feature, current events, and life in general.

so i know what you're thinking alot of writing, where is the music? well i've been struggling with that as i type this, the first post will probably say a lot about what is to come on this blog... i've decided i'm going to go with a new album by one of san diego's finest bands.


Reeve Oliver - Touchstone Inferno

















01. Yer Motion
02. I Want Burns
03. Reason To Leave
04. Cheat Me Slowly
05. Sunshine
06. Clean Up Mission Hills
07. Goldiloches
08. Open Face Darrell
09. Endless Bummer
10. Wings
11. Madachu(featuring Sean Mackin on Violin)
12. The Leg
13. Yer Time (itunes only bonus track)



i have waited probably close to three years for this album to come out and it finally is here...sort of. its available on itunes plus (for a pretty reasonable 7.99!), but the physical album has yet to come out. to fully understand the problems the band had releasing the album check out their blog. long story short, they were signed by capitol records, recorded their sophomore album, the label kept pushing its release back further and further, then dropping the band before releasing the record. the band decided to go ahead and release the record themselves, and i'm glad they did.

here are a few of my early favorites from the record:

I Want Burns - the third released incarnation of the song, a great song originally and they always manage to improve it just a bit.

The Leg - i have to admit i'm a bit of a sucker for a sports-themed song. it's kind of like a sincere "lonesome kicker."

Yer Time - this track i believe will be itunes only, and is definitely interesting. i can see why it's not a part of the actual record, as it's very old song that they re-recorded with an accordion as the main track.

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whelp i guess that about does it for the first post, thank you for reading and i hope you come back regularly.