Headed to LA for the Grammys! This is the fifth year Wilco’s been nominated but it’s my brother Sammy’s and my first time coming along. They’re making us sit in the back away from all the important p...
Watch “Freight Train” by Elizabeth Cotten on YouTube This is Elizabeth Cotten. When she was a teenager, she bought herself a guitar. It was a right-handed guitar, but she was left-handed, so she taug...
Unrequired Listening: My friend Joey Pfeifer and I have started a weblog about music called Unrequired Listening. We don’t aim to be the next Pitchfork, Stereogum or whatever. It’s more just a person...
At the start of this school year—my sophomore year—I began receiving dozens of emails a week from colleges that seem pretty, pretty torqued at the notion of my attendance, despite their having no clu...
A video I made for The Whole Love last summer that slipped through the cracks. Featuring my little brother, Sammy, his best friend, Joey, and my friend, Tavi.
“Oh Baby (I Love You)” by A.C. Jones & The Atomic Aces From the Numero Group compilation of songs produced at historic Boddie Recording Company in Cleveland. Get it here.
I wrote a post about growing up, depression, and an emo pterodactyl for my dear pal Tavi’s magazine, Rookie. Read it here.
“One Day” — {Formerly The Blisters} My band recorded a song! Henry, our frontman, wrote/sings it. I play drums (and a dollop of mellotron strings and a tad of background vocals). We just “hired” a ne...
Went to see Kanye West and Jay Z at the United Center last night. The tickets were a Chanukah present for my inspiringly hip little brother, Sammy. He’s gotten super into rap this past year and had b...
Goodbye, Cutty.
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach u...
Might as well post this one, too. No vocals.
Yet another demo. Bad vocals.
A demo from my avant-garde, turtleneck-wearing, mumbling bohemian side.
I am uncomfortable very often. It’s something that I’ve talked about a lot before. It’s that notorious “creative itch,” that infamous, insatiate hunger that drives people to make beautiful things and...
I love my fake family.
Great weekend.
Pretty sure I made this last spring during the end of the school year. A little bit “you’re going to look at that in a significant number of years and make such a powerfully disgusted facial expressi...
I took this picture of a big wood slab we use as a coffee table the other day and thought it would make a good iPhone wallpaper. Enjoy. Download
Jello and Juggernauts — Unknown Mortal Orchestra Just got Unknown Mortal Orchestra by Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Definitely going on the fave fall records list (Awesome Autumn Albums). Sounds like Avi...
“I think the dubstep that has come over to the US, and certain producers — who I can’t even be bothered naming — have definitely hit upon a sort of frat-boy market where there’s this macho-ism being ...
Year of the Tiger — St. Vincent The new St. Vincent album is a woozy synth powerhouse. Recommended.
a:2:{i:0;a:0:{}s:2:"o1" ;;a:1:{s:9:"downloads" ;i:2020;}}Sammy just couldn’t contain himself and jumped on stage at Central Park last night to give the crowd a little taste of his master...
In New York for a few days while Wilco plays David Letterman, Live on Letterman and Central Park.
Played a show at the equivalent of a shareholders meeting for hi-/yuppie farmers in Wisconsin this weekend. I could not have asked for a more enjoyable hi-/yuppie farmer shareholder meeting equivalen...
I am extremely lucky to have this. Solid Sound 2011, Leica M6
A little father-son Angry Birds. View on Flickr.
Wilco press conference at Solid Sound.
Just got a roll of film back from Dwayne’s Photo that I took during Solid Sound this summer. I think these might be the first Leica shots that I didn’t take to Walgreens for developing/ruining/being ...
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