May 17, 2020 -- Released the first EP by BLAST BEASTS. BLAST BEASTS live in the mountains and eat goats they steal from the US Air Force. BLAST BEASTS support the liberation of Palestine and the return of the Americas to its indigenous peoples.
April 30, 2020 -- Released Burning Silo's first LP, "Thrash Wizzaards." Broke and drunk and vicious, the BS moved into a dilapidated shed in Albuquerque's violence plagued War Zone and, with stolen equipment, turned the amps to 6. There, they churn burnt out Neil Young filtered through Jesus Lizard and Slayer.
March 31, 2020 -- New music released -- #3 in the fuguers cove PERFORMS series, fuguers cove PERFORMS The Marshmen's "Capitalism is a Virus" -- as performed by J. Bendell (aka fuguers cove) during THE QUARANTINE. This is the first fuguers cove album written & recorded during a Pandemic. Get ready to punch Nazis behind the House of Pizza. February 17, 2020-- A new flash fiction crime story -- "God-damned Fool" -- in Flash Fiction Offensive !
February 1, 2020 -- Manzano Mountain Review is open for prose submissions! Theme: Chiaroscuro "Flirt with (or submerge within) the genres of crime & noir, but we look for fresh expressions, not formula. Give us light & shadow. Give us dawn & darkness." More info here
September 27, 2020 -- fuguers cove put out a 9-song EP titled "execution drone." Listen here.
August 24, 2019 -- I host and read at Noir at the Bar: Burque Edition, held at Tractor Brewing Co. - Wells Park from 7-9 pm.
June 27, 2019 -- fuguers cove releases the twangy 10-song album "skeletons." In his review of the record, August March of the Weekly Alibi says it's "kinda like listening to angry version of The Kinks but with Keith Richards on lead guitar and Dave Mustaine singing while certain Pixies members are probing your brain the whole time." I'll take it.