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Despite my intention to write something every week, if not every day, on our blogs, I've been lax. Well, I suppose that's not true – I've been busy as hell – but I've been busy at other things. Among them is a new site design that I've all but abandoned at this point. No need to worry, the concepts b...

Recently the band began adding a new song to our setlist called Die In You. Unlike the other songs in our set, this one is a 3/4 time, which is the time typically used for a waltz, something you don’t hear very often in rock. So far this looks to be one of the most interesting songs in our set and I’...

Last weekend the band played hard – on stage and off. We took on The Haven on Friday night and gave one of our best performances ever and introducing a slightly modified set list. Saturday we played a two set night in Ocala which turned into a bit of a party, with the entire band shirtless and sh...

Despite the absence of any recent posts, I’ve been extremely busy and have recently performed several new songs – one of which brought me to tears last Friday night. That wasn’t completely unexpected, as I cried while trying out the song at home a few hours earlier. Rizzo, who happened to be sitting ...

Last Saturday I performed two sets at the Deland Original Music Festival – one solo and one with the band. Throughout it all, I was worried about my voice, though none seemed to notice. You see, I’d been pushing things pretty hard during the week and some old habits returned, vocal habits that te...

Believe it or not, I associate the country of France with the band The Cult. Tonight I’m enjoying a little J. Walker, catching up on some emails, and reflecting. After a few years of slow growth, my lyrics are fighting back again through the fog that is me and I’m feeling a bit alive. On my playlist,...

Last night revealed to me some of the things that I can now see truly make our band special. The most obvious being we don’t get phased once we’re on stage by how many people are in an audience; we play with passion no matter what. Granted the bigger the audience, the more fun it is and the more we l...

I'm open to additions, but my band has been joking for a while that there's a list of things no band should say from the stage any longer. Here are the top ones so far:

• Any combination of "Make some noise" (make some f-ing noise, make MF-ing noise, etc)
• "This one is for the ladies" (since bands are gen...

Orlando, Florida, is a curious, flexing mix of success and self-loathing – though opinions may differ. I’ve been here for nearly 10 years and considering I began here living in my van, storing my personals at my rehearsal space, and having to do most everything on my own, I imagine my perspec...

I’ve had a few too many things circling around my head this weekend to organize proper blog entries, but I feel too frustrated this morning without at least saying something. Perhaps I will expound on these later, but here a few thoughts on subjects not necessarily related.

BANDS

1. Just because they say ...