My new video will be 51 seconds long when it debuts at 3:30 PM ET today. Add to your calendar

I like these words as a potential band name or album title: Paranoid Friend

The name “there is only” does not work and did not work. I have retreated to my given name. The hierarchy of band names: I will have to re-issue the Bandcamp/streaming release.

The excellent – raw, messy, soulful, but whip smart – mandolin player Frank Wakefield has died. It was a musical life well lived. The NY Times has a warm obituary. Frank Wakefield, Who Expanded the Mandolin’s Range, Dies at 89: “an innovative bluegrass mandolinist whose sweeping musicality led to collaborations with the New York Philharmonic…

Into the Light by Fastus

Steve Reich-ish pulsations from Ear Reverends: Windows Down by Ear Reverends https://earreverends.bandcamp.com/track/tribulators

by Colleen (Cécile Schott) (and Sol the Cat).

If you’re a Flow State subscriber, you’ll find the thereisonly tune “Black Water Fell” in today’s mix. Mix: https://www.flowstate.fm/p/flow-state-episode-219 Tune: https://thereisonly.bandcamp.com/track/black-water-fell

This foundation of this tune is well-worn 1960s-70s schmaltz, but the bent pitches and thick shoegaze rock in the second half take it to a new place.

Disquiet 0635 ‘Round the Bend is about train sounds. That sound took me to the memory of going to a punk rock squat after school in 8th grade. There were Cheech-and-Chong-sized piles of locally grown skunk weed in the basement. I bought some (cheap!), smoked it (ew!), and took the L2 bus home. High, the…