I often have a difficult time explaining what my music sounds like. But Sonic Curiosity, headed by Matt Howarth, really spelled it out beyond my expectations (and what I even knew it sounded like).

Sonic Curiosity, which reviews indie electronic albums, recently reviewed my album First Berries After Hibernation, released by earSnake this past summer. Check out the review!

My song "First Berries After Hibernation" is used as the eerie soundtrack for a Ghost Tours of Philadelphia commercial. Check out the video above to watch it.

This definitely cracks me up a bit, as my music has always been classified as eerie or "scary", as my Mom likes to call it.

This all reminds me of the upcoming Halloween season, and how lame Halloween is in the city, for the kids trick or treating and trying to scare the crap out of them. Having been raised in Montgomery County, I must say that there is no scarier place for Halloween than a suburb of massive trees and a haunted house that you have to walk through in order to score some Snicker’s Bar loot. In Fishtown, the kids hardly even dress up. 

This past Saturday, I had the pleasure of performing at Studio 27.28 for the September opening of artists Cassandra Warren and Eric DeJesus. This marked a new genre of performance for me, utilizing a Roland SP-555 sampler to build dynamic samples and to improvise instrumentals. For some reason, my new MacBook crashed twice, which really sucked! But, I’m sure with some tweaks I can get it performing properly next time.

Melissa took some photos of the event as well, of course!

I almost didn’t get to Studio 27.28 that night due to a horrific car accident that Melissa and I witnessed on the drive over. At the intersection of 16th & Broad, we watched in perfect site a Cadillac Escalade come barreling down the WRONG lane of traffic and slam into another SUV in the middle of the intersection! The white Escalade then ricocheted off of the other SUV and crashed into a traffic-light pole. Suddenly, a young looking man got out of the Escalade and ran away down Girard Avenue. The woman in the other SUV, who had what looked like a 2-year-old in the back seat, luckily did not attain any injuries. Then, the traffic light pole came crashing down into the street.

On Saturday, September 6th, I will be performing at Studio 27.28 in Philadelphia, from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., doing up my new one-man show act and providing the background ambience.

Studio 27.28 is run by artist / photographer Jonathan Slinguff, and has been a hot new gallery in the northern North Star region of town.

The featured artists of this event are Eric De Jesus of Virginville, PA and Cassandra Warren of Portsmouth, NH. Come down and check it out!

One of my new songs, "Berks County Bike Ride" is featured on the latest Philadelphia City Paper’s bi-weekly Local Music Podcast.

Check it out here:

http://www.citypaper.net/music/local-support/

Today, I am psyched to introduce my new CD of instrumentals entitled First Berries After Hibernation. This album of 12 tracks was recorded at my Fishtown home and released by Philly indie label earSnake.

Above is the album cover, which features a photo taken by Melissa while we were walking aimlessly one autumn day in New Hope, PA. I love the gleeful smile of the girl with a piece of plastic attacking her face, while a tortured bald mannequin stands scarred on the left and another looks off to the right, meanwhile a stern Statue of Liberty stands in the distance.

With awful luck in bands, my home recordings have become my main steady artistic outlet, and I’m glad that the newly developed earSnake was willing to take it under their wing. Check it out at the earSnake site!

Gemini Wolf performed 4 songs last night at the World Cafe Live for Philly Sound Clash. Although they didn’t win the competition, they put on a stellar set. I do believe Mike’s sounds were WAY too low, and you can barely even hear him unfortunately.

I haven’t recorded any new instrumentals or songs since February of earlier this year. Last night I recorded a new diddy called "Melting of The Evil Snowman", using the newly revamped GarageBand 4 (which is a HUGE improvement from the previous version). This is one of those "made on the spot" songs that I enjoy doing, giving myself a time limit to write and finish it, making it a fun challenge. Enjoy! Melting Of The Evil Snowman

I recently finished a stop-motion animation starring an Ewok. This was debuted at the 3rd Annual Virginville Film Festival held in Virginville, PA.

You can also watch EWOK! on FunnyOrDie.com as well as on Vimeo.com.