Recent happenings:
November 22, 2023 -- One month after first release, the SUNDAY SESSIONS project are grown from 1 to 13 songs. Still free -- give it a listen! https://highplainshomerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-sessions
November 5, 2023 -- Released the first three demos for PLANET SAILOR, a "garage rock soap opera" and "return to form" after fuguers cove's 18-month absence due to medical (and other) distractions. https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/planet-sailor
October 22, 2023 -- Released a new, ever-growing song collection of mostly pretty acoustic songs, SUNDAY SESSIONS, under the moniker high plains home recordings. Listen to these ditties here: https://highplainshomerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-sessions
October 2, 2023 -- Release Episode 1 of Writing Rat Face, a Point Blank Limited Series on one writer’s process of writing a 50,000 word novel first draft. In ten short episodes, I discuss on the day-to-day ups and downs, the challenges and dead-ends, and the surprises along the way as my novel draft evolves. Get the first episode here; www.pointblankpodcast.com/e75-writing-rat-face-a-point-blank-limited-series-episode-1/
June 1, 2023 -- In Episode 73 of Point Blank Podcast, we review Graham Greene’s novella The Third Man. Is it better than the film? Listen to hear our thoughts! https://www.pointblankpodcast.com/e73-the-third-man-novella-graham-greene/
November, 2023 -- Here's my contribution to "Black Metal Rainbows," a compilation album & show of strength: 100+ underground and black metal, noise, and electronic artists coming together in support of LGBTQ youth. "From blackened grind to epic black metal, blackgaze to dungeon synth, noise to avantgarde, this massive compilation of queer, trans, leftist, anarchist and antifascist bands from the global underground will raise money for charities helping LGBTQ youth: The Trevor Project, Mermaids, Minus 18, and The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) Youth & Student Organisation." My song is "If you want war..." click to listen or to donate! https://blackmetalrainbows.bandcamp.com/track/anarchist-wolves-if-you-want-war
October 15, 2022 -- The first (and only?) issue of Nihilist Poet Militia: West premiered, and here it is! https://nihilistpoetmilitia.wixsite.com/home/issueone
July 17, 2022 -- I founded a new lit journal called Nihilist Poet Militia: West. If you want to check it out (or submit!) click here: https://nihilistpoetmilitia.wixsite.com/home
March 20, 2022 -- Released TOURNIQUET DREAMZ a 7-song EP loosely based on an in-progress work called ghost inventory which is itself a false memoir that borrows heavily from abandoned novel drafts. Or as I wrote about it on facebook, the album is "Rock n roll. Epic songs. Poppy. Loud. Weird."
February 25, 2022 -- Presented "Dorothy B. Hughes: Queen of New Mexico Noir" at SWPACA in Albuquerque
February 15, 2022 -- Published Point Blank Podcast Episode 64 featuring Margaret Millar's noir classic, A Beast in View
January 7, 2022 -- Released fuguers cove ALL MY SONGS ARE DEMOS ep (link here). Written & recorded in the first week of the new year.
December 6, 2022 - Released Episode 62 of Point Blank Podcast featuring Ed McBain's police procedural classic, Cop Hater. (link here)
June 22, 2021 -- Released Episode 58 of Point Blank -- Chicago Noir -- Algren, Browne, Brown, Paretsky, Harvey, Peterson, Hartley, Gardner. Find it at https://www.pointblankpodcast.com/
June 19, 2021 -- Released fuguers cove's A BALM FROM TROPICAL NATURE, a 52 minute "lost" radio show from the revolutionary 1970s featuring 18 tracks of Tropical Psych, Dub, Cumbia, & Garage Rock --> https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/a-balm-from-tropical-nature-lp-2021
April 3, 2021 -- Episode 55 of Point Blank Podcast features a deep dive into S.A. Cosby's brilliant Blacktop Wasteland. Check it out here!
March 29, 2021 -- MOON is available for pre-order: New record comes out on 24 April 2021. It's a soft, pretty, reflective record about love & death. https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/moon
March 1, 2021 -- fuguers cove has a new single and it's fun as hell: Listen to "In your Van, Clementine" here!
February 27, 2021 -- Delivered two presentations at SWPACA (virtually).
November 22, 2023 -- One month after first release, the SUNDAY SESSIONS project are grown from 1 to 13 songs. Still free -- give it a listen! https://highplainshomerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-sessions
November 5, 2023 -- Released the first three demos for PLANET SAILOR, a "garage rock soap opera" and "return to form" after fuguers cove's 18-month absence due to medical (and other) distractions. https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/planet-sailor
October 22, 2023 -- Released a new, ever-growing song collection of mostly pretty acoustic songs, SUNDAY SESSIONS, under the moniker high plains home recordings. Listen to these ditties here: https://highplainshomerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-sessions
October 2, 2023 -- Release Episode 1 of Writing Rat Face, a Point Blank Limited Series on one writer’s process of writing a 50,000 word novel first draft. In ten short episodes, I discuss on the day-to-day ups and downs, the challenges and dead-ends, and the surprises along the way as my novel draft evolves. Get the first episode here; www.pointblankpodcast.com/e75-writing-rat-face-a-point-blank-limited-series-episode-1/
June 1, 2023 -- In Episode 73 of Point Blank Podcast, we review Graham Greene’s novella The Third Man. Is it better than the film? Listen to hear our thoughts! https://www.pointblankpodcast.com/e73-the-third-man-novella-graham-greene/
November, 2023 -- Here's my contribution to "Black Metal Rainbows," a compilation album & show of strength: 100+ underground and black metal, noise, and electronic artists coming together in support of LGBTQ youth. "From blackened grind to epic black metal, blackgaze to dungeon synth, noise to avantgarde, this massive compilation of queer, trans, leftist, anarchist and antifascist bands from the global underground will raise money for charities helping LGBTQ youth: The Trevor Project, Mermaids, Minus 18, and The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) Youth & Student Organisation." My song is "If you want war..." click to listen or to donate! https://blackmetalrainbows.bandcamp.com/track/anarchist-wolves-if-you-want-war
October 15, 2022 -- The first (and only?) issue of Nihilist Poet Militia: West premiered, and here it is! https://nihilistpoetmilitia.wixsite.com/home/issueone
July 17, 2022 -- I founded a new lit journal called Nihilist Poet Militia: West. If you want to check it out (or submit!) click here: https://nihilistpoetmilitia.wixsite.com/home
March 20, 2022 -- Released TOURNIQUET DREAMZ a 7-song EP loosely based on an in-progress work called ghost inventory which is itself a false memoir that borrows heavily from abandoned novel drafts. Or as I wrote about it on facebook, the album is "Rock n roll. Epic songs. Poppy. Loud. Weird."
February 25, 2022 -- Presented "Dorothy B. Hughes: Queen of New Mexico Noir" at SWPACA in Albuquerque
February 15, 2022 -- Published Point Blank Podcast Episode 64 featuring Margaret Millar's noir classic, A Beast in View
January 7, 2022 -- Released fuguers cove ALL MY SONGS ARE DEMOS ep (link here). Written & recorded in the first week of the new year.
December 6, 2022 - Released Episode 62 of Point Blank Podcast featuring Ed McBain's police procedural classic, Cop Hater. (link here)
June 22, 2021 -- Released Episode 58 of Point Blank -- Chicago Noir -- Algren, Browne, Brown, Paretsky, Harvey, Peterson, Hartley, Gardner. Find it at https://www.pointblankpodcast.com/
June 19, 2021 -- Released fuguers cove's A BALM FROM TROPICAL NATURE, a 52 minute "lost" radio show from the revolutionary 1970s featuring 18 tracks of Tropical Psych, Dub, Cumbia, & Garage Rock --> https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/a-balm-from-tropical-nature-lp-2021
April 3, 2021 -- Episode 55 of Point Blank Podcast features a deep dive into S.A. Cosby's brilliant Blacktop Wasteland. Check it out here!
March 29, 2021 -- MOON is available for pre-order: New record comes out on 24 April 2021. It's a soft, pretty, reflective record about love & death. https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/moon
March 1, 2021 -- fuguers cove has a new single and it's fun as hell: Listen to "In your Van, Clementine" here!
February 27, 2021 -- Delivered two presentations at SWPACA (virtually).
