Video from Rumba Kings at the Triple Door

Recently I was honored to perform with the Rumba Kings at the Triple Door. Two sold out nights of emotional Mediterranean music, November 19th and 20th, 2021.

Here is one excerpt from the second night. Our rendition of Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. Enjoy!

https://fb.watch/9sRPz2Pr1f/

More videos are being added on social media and on the band website.

New Stereo Creeps just dropped – “Goat Sounds”

My band Stereo Creeps just dropped another track as part of a split video release with Suitcase. These were both recorded by Don Farwell at Earwig, and the double video was done by Lance Hofstad at Don’s house.

Part 1 is Goat Sounds: a medley of Dumb Prayer (composed by myself), Faded (featuring yours truly on theremin), and closing with the psych-punk Talking to Brian. Yeah, we were going through a Brian Wilson phase.

Part 2 is Brothers of the Deep, by Suitcase. This is probably the heaviest thing I’ve ever heard from these song writing geniuses.

The video is now live over at Second & Montana. Check it out!

Trading cards

This is weird, but Sean Moe from Stereo Creeps put together a deck of trading cards including myself plus the rest of the band, plus all the bands and friends in our scene. I never expected to be a trading card. They were very careful to get a really bad photo of me where I’m scowling, just to kind of make the situation perfect. The cards come with gum. And a download code for a compilation of music from all the bands. And then all 150 of them sold out in a week. So, I guess I’m just documenting this here because the whole situation is unexpected and surreal and I needed to share.

You can go and download the compilation without the deck. It’s actually a really good set of music, and the song order was carefully curated like a mixtape, so enjoyable to play all the way through.

Check it out!

Iktsaurpok – Alone Forever In An Empty Universe

Okay folks, here’s an update to the demo version of Iktsaurpok. I got some great feedback on the demo, and I spent some time cleaning things up and tweaking the mix, and here is the finished version! Thanks for following along on this journey. I hope you enjoy seeing the process as I post multiple versions of music on SoundCloud as I progress through the production process. I don’t know when this will get released broadly, but I suspect that this will get rolled into the next Robort release. Click on the link to go to soundcloud and read the full details. Thanks again for listening!

New release of “Had” by Stereo Creeps

It was our big day! On May 22, 2020, Stereo Creeps released a new track “Had” that will be part of a whole new ep or album or something that we are currently working on. The song was actually recorded back in 2019 at Earwig. I did this whole massive tuning of Don Farwell’s house kit to get the right vibe for the song. It felt like a huge risk, and I hope that paid off. I mean, this is the first release of a studio recording with me in the band, so I absolutely had to get it right. I think we recorded 2 takes to tape, and called that good. If you listen closely, you’ll hear members of Suitcase on backing vox. We had a whole watch party to commemorate the release (can’t be embedded here), or just watch the video below.