Archive for February, 2011

Thanks to Ethan Swan and New Museum for making this possible.

At the end of March, I’ll be playing two shows with Volcano Choir, in Minneapolis and Milwaukee. We had such a good time on tour in Japan that I’m glad we’ll be able to play these songs together again near our homes. Below is video from that tour, and an idea of what [...]

In 1995, I was graduating college with no real direction in sight. I started working full time, and working on songs at night, fueled by the serendipitous case of whiskey given to me by people to celebrate my graduation. The result was a CD titled ‘Telecognac’ and released by my friend’s small indie rock [...]

My next record, Alphabet of Movements, will be released in April on Type Records in vinyl format only. The material consists of two different versions of the recent piece, “I Almost Expect to Be Remembered as a Chair” which has been used in performances to support the release of my previous record, The Whole. [...]

Issue five of the literary publication, Pear Noir! is now out of print at the publisher. As posted previously, I have contributed a story to this issue, about a mind-boggling trip with the group Collections of Colonies of Bees in Japan. Here’s an excerpt:
Then, the phone rang. At least, the strange ringtone suggested [...]