For many, particularly those introduced to his work through 2013’s 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, the first enthralling thing about Archie Marshall was his cascading, reverb-drenched, virtuoso guitar playing. For me, who met Marshall on 2017’s still-not-quite-fathomable The Ooz, it was his voice. Marshall’s vocals are a fat slab of meat -- pre-tobacco Tom Waits … Continue reading Quarantine Review – Man, Alive by King Krule

Monday 5/27 - Tuesday 5/28 St. George, UT We were sore, our bellies were feeling funky in a less than groovy way, and our heads went boom boom bap inaudibly. St George became our freaky strip mall respite. Here we slept in a bed, ate many many waffles, and watched Seinfeld and Beyonce. It was … Continue reading The Daily – Saint Hood

Friday 5/24 - Sunday  5/26 Zion National Park Slizzard slizzard says king lizard Fee Fi Fo Fun says Zion wE SHaLl aSsiMilaTE say the locusts Time to partyyyyy says the holiday weekend By the time we reached the Zion visitor center the swarm had settled in. Every lot in the park was full, the line … Continue reading The Daily – The Hills are Alive

Thursday 5/23 Page, AZ - Zion National Park, UT One of those older gents with many stories found us the night prior and somehow finagled us into a breakfast (finagle meaning I’m consistently filled with guilt and worried that people are lonely, thus we had to go). He drove us through Page, AZ and gave … Continue reading The Daily – Pag(e) an(d) Spirits

Wednesday 5/22 Kaibab, AZ - Page, AZ Before leaving lovely Kaibab we downloaded several selections from Pitchfork’s top 50 Albums of the 90’s and 2000’s. This has proved a fun decision. Our drive to the Grand Canyon was Boards of Canada’s Geogaddi and Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. Thoughts were provoked. Our arrival at the … Continue reading The Daily – Storm Chaser

Sunday 5/19 - Wednesday 5/21 Kaibab, AZ As they say, climate change is a bitch. With the Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, and three other stupendous national parks in our vicinity, temperatures dropped, rain fell, hail formed, and snow-coated. We weighed the value of our days vs the misery of being outside in the snow and … Continue reading The Daily – BowWow

Sunday 5/19 Valley of Fire, NV - Kaibab, AZ As part of the proverbial trip planning process, we dropped pins on google maps. These pins were to be points of interest, aggregated from personal experience, friendly suggestion, and any number of pinterest road trip lists. We figured any day we weren’t sure what to do, … Continue reading The Daily – A Song of Fire and Fire

Saturday 5/18 Valley of Fire, NV Our visit to Death Valley National Park was the beginning of one era and the end of another. This leg of our journey has become the era of rock. The southwest is a land where the rocks rule and defy gravity and chromatic expectation. They are huge, they are … Continue reading The Daily – The Rocks Roll (and they’re red)

Friday 5/17 Death Valley, CA (The following paragraph should maybe be an aside but it was important to 5/17 and the days since so it goes here) Oh Tyler, you sweet sweet boy, you’ve done it again. I think I found Goblin and Bastard too early, so for a long time Tyler wasn’t so much … Continue reading The Daily – Eager Igor

Thursday 5/16 Carmel-by-the-Sea to Lake Isabella , CA We write of the days in the car as though they are lost. There are no pictures and no event, no places and no people. These days are not lost to me though, they are simply lost to words, and time. I don’t remember which day we … Continue reading The Daily – Vrooms not Dooms