Hello, friend.

Busy day! Bronx Zoo, Arthur Ave for pizza, and The Lost Boys. 17,400 steps later. NYC is a marvel.

🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Paperchains" by Westside Cowboy →

On the road so more new music.

🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Kick Stones (The Boys)" by Westside Cowboy →

New music Friday! Enjoying this album. More soon 😄

🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Cleveland" by Squirrel Flower →

Caught the Squirrel Flower interview on the Kreative Kontrol podcast during the current road trip. Super good and has me excited for her upcoming album. Out tomorrow!

🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Moonshine Freeze" by This Is the Kit →

What's a song you'd want to hear while watching the sunrise?

As the change sets in We are separate As the game begins We are separate

Some strings slackening Others giving in Change sets in

This is the natural order of things

One of my absolute favorite alt folk artists. Her and Adrianne Lenker are the masters of words and quirky folk.

🎶 Crucial Track for today: "A Scream In Silence" by Small Brown Bike →

What's a song you associate with your favorite photograph?

My absolute favorite picture is one we took on vacation in South Carolina when all three kids were under 5. We tried to get a nice picture of my wife and the kids sitting on the big exposed root of the Angel Oak Tree in Charleston... the wife held the twins in her arms and the oldest was sitting on the root right in front of her.

Just as I was about to snap the picture, the twins started wiggling and screaming... and my oldest just had an absolute look of disgust and rolling their eyes at the twins. My wife smiling and trying to rein it all in... all caught on film. Just a perfect example of the chaos of having 3 kids a total of 13 months apart... and what a hero she is!

Now they are all going off to college this year and with that, the quiet. Going to be so weird.

🎶 Crucial Track for today: "You’re Gonna Go Far" by Noah Kahan →

Obligatory “start of college drop off season” song. 😭

First college drop off in the books. 😭

🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Goddamn, Lizard Man!" by Man/Woman/Chainsaw →

Errand soundtrack today.

🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Out to Lunch" by Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal →

What's your favorite song about letting go?

How about a song that’s the exact opposite?! Open Mike Eagle’s new album, at least from the first few tracks I’ve heard, is a breakup album and this song is definitely not at the letting go stage yet. Might have to add a prompt for not letting go. 😄

So please fly me to the moon, 'cause she lives right down the street It's fucked up songs on repeat Imparted my sadness on main, I felt safe, might delete My heart's at odds with my mind, and both is frozen in time I'm stuck in a choice I don't want My body's a house that I haunt, ain't no telling what you might find

Half way through the whole album and it’s elite.