Sometimes I look back at my own teenage years, tangled and tempestuous as they were, and wonder if I knew how lucky I was, musically speaking. The Counting Crows still played at the U.C. Berkeley on-campus club; Heather Alexander was both local and frequently touring; Celtic rock was having a resurgence, with Avalon Rising and Four Shillings Short ( Read more... )

Hello, glorious people!

It is time to tell you of a wondrous thing.

My dearest, most beloved Dr. Mary Crowell, who you have heard on my CDs Wicked Girls and Creature Feature, if not on her own, absolutely transcendent material, is running a Kickstarter right now to fund the production of her new album of amazing, mythological music. Mary is one ( Read more... )

...and the winner of a copy of Elbows and Antlers, by Avalon Rising, is mckavian!

mckavian, please email me via my website contact form within the next twenty-four hours with your mailing information.

Thanks for entering, everyone, and I hope that if you didn't win, you'll consider picking up some awesome music by Avalon Rising anyway!

As I get ready to return to the studio and get back to work on Saint of Thorns (probably coming out some time in 2016; the album for 2015 is Creature Feature, and we're laying out the liner notes now), it occurs to me that some of you may not know how awesome and incredible my recording engineer, Kristoph Klover, actually is ( Read more... )

Filk Continental happens in Germany. It happens in a castle. It is one of the only filk cons I have never attended, because it is very far away, and up until recently, I have had very limited vacation time ( Read more... )

I believe we've discussed this before, but: in the filk community, there is a man by the name of Bob Kanefsky. He is also a verb. To "be Kanef'd" is to have one of your songs gripped in the white-hot maw of his evil genius, chewed up, and spat out as something entirely different. If he and Weird Al Yankovic got into gonzo parody battle (probably ( Read more... )

...into a fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white ( Read more... )

It's fan art awesomeness time! shadow71689 has designed some incredible Newsflesh banner art, using my casting choices for Shaun and Georgia as her models. Seriously, this is some high-quality photo manipulation, and I am in awe ( Read more... )

Having been asked several times recently, I thought I'd give a quick CD FAQ. The short form: yes, I have recorded and released two CDs, and am currently in the middle of recording a third. My first two CDs remain currently available, although supplies are falling fast. When they're gone, they're gone; I'm not planning to re-release either of ( Read more... )

As many of you may or may not be aware, I am a fairly prolific songwriter. And when I say 'prolific', I really mean 'I have released two albums, I'm recording a third right now, and if I had the money, I would be heading straight back into the studio for number four, just to try to get some of my backlog down on CD.'It's been determined that there ( Read more... )