Yes, today the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced John Cougar Mellencamp among its nominees for the Class of 2008. Johnny Coogs, as I like to call him, is one of my favorite songwriters, period.
Need I remind you: . . .Mellencamp became the first artist since the Beatles to have two simultaneous Top […]

Our new single “Restless Sea” got a tip of the blog hat over at Local Vertical today.

Anks and I were driving through the city and saw a license plate that read “ORC HUNTER.” We might change our band name to ORC HUNTER provided I get this guitar.

Before casting off for our first national tour, the band and I decided to record a single with producer Joe Solo out in Calabasas.  Joe is a pop producer who had a big hit with Macy Gray’s “Sweet Baby.”  We had a fun time laying down a hot, raw “Restless Sea.” We were really rolling in the studio so we recorded a […]

My good friend Phil Hurley of country rockers Stonehoney told me to meet him at Spaceland a few weeks ago.  We were checking out Oliver Future, who had just played on KCRW that morning.  Phil introduced me to his friend Adam Lasus who produced Oliver Future’s new record, which sounds fantastic. Adam also produced Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s debut album, which Pitchfork gave a […]

So I’ve come across a little unit that has  1/4″ ins and outs  and the name S HAWK LTD stamped right across the front.  Seneca Hawk - S Hawk -   How awesome is that.  Apparently it’s an early fuzz unit with different gain stages and two tone sliders.  This is the first and only I’ve seen, and a Google search pulls up […]

Here’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. The guys and I at Westwood Music were dying watching this today.

The band and I are in preproduction for our upcoming album We’ll be rehearsing in West LA tomorrow and I’ll be auditioning the Fulltone Supa-Trem and the discontinued Barge Concepts RC-2 Compressor.

If you head over to SmogTV (it’s LA) you can watch a great short on a graffiti art project happening right now in Venice Beach. It’s a new site and it’s been getting a lot of traffic in the past week already. The clip is cleverly cut to our surfy instrumental “Tsunami.”
Facts:

SmogTV is run by […]

ZME has posted a nice little review of “Restless Sea,” our new single, on their main page. If you scroll down you’ll see us underneath J. Lo. That’s two Puerto Ricans back-to-back in music news. I’m sure the page will be moving on in a day or two, so here’s the review.

Facts:

I’ve listened to very little GnR, actually.
I’ve requested for and have been granted my own branch of our main site.  Here I’ll be sharing in the daily goings on in the life of a Los Angeles rock and roll band.
I am sitting in an LA Public Library that is closing. This computer is about to kick […]