“What The Hell Did I Just Buy?” : Adventures In Vinyl

As a vinyl guy, it’s my duty to make things hard on myself. I am quite aware that there are these things called “digital downloads”, where you can receive music right through your computer and put those albums onto a digital listening device. This allows the listener to have hundreds or thousands of albums inside […]

Castles Made of Pixels

I don’t even remember Castlevania III : Dracula’s Curse. I don’t remember one single thing about the game, not even the music. Yet, I felt compelled to buy Mondo’s double LP release of the soundtrack a couple months ago. Compelled may not be the right word. Possessed to buy it, maybe? It’s like a sickness, […]

Simon Belmont Blues

I remember it like it was yesterday(or maybe last week.) I spent a week at my uncle Mark’s house in the summer of 1987. I went straight from the last day of school to his place where we’d hang out, eat junk food, and play video games. What I didn’t know was that my older […]

Lil Bub – Science & Magic: A Soundtrack to the Universe

Who doesn’t want to own an album made by an extraterrestrial cat? It almost seems like a given that every household would want to be playing something like that on a daily basis. What? You want to know what in the hell I’m talking about? I’m talking about the lovable, freaky internet sensation feline named […]

Disasterpeace : A Talk With Rich Vreeland

I’d say it was probably a year and a half ago on a Sunday morning I happened across this little documentary called ‘Indie Game: The Movie’. It was a great little doc about the struggles of independent video game developers and everything they go through to create their art. One of the games they featured […]