Cover version of the closing track from the 2007 LCD Soundsystem album Sound of Silver. Recorded at the Grand Corner Studios(Chicago, IL) in December, 2013.  No copyright infringement intended.

I'd never really listened to LCD Soundsystem, but this song came on the radio one morning and really hit me.  This is a single take live acoustic recording using a single condenser run through a Roland AC-60.

New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down (LCD Soundsystem)

Recorded 2014 at The Castle, Chicago, IL

Rapid fire internal rhyme, frantic beats, and reverb-wrapped guitars.

Cells (Demo)

Recorded December 2014 at the Castle, Chicago, IL.

Something of a companion song to Wrong Time, written over a decade later.  The weight of decision-making and circumstance.

Faraway Thinking

Recorded January 2014 at the Castle, Chicago, IL.

Somebody Else

Cover version of a song from the album Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.  No copyright infringement intended.

Someone suggested I learn to play this so I did.  I sent it to her; she didn't reply.  I never heard back.

Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)

Cover version of Ricky Nelson's 1958 hit, written by Baker Knight.  Recorded (with some unfortunate hiss coming in about halfway through) at the Castle (Chicago, IL) in December 2011. No copyright infringement intended.

I may have known the song prior, but it's cemented in my mind from an appearance in the "milkshake" scene in Pulp Fiction.

Lonesome Town (Ricky Nelson)

Recorded 2001 in East Quad, Ann Arbor, MI.

I was a sophomore in college and laid down this dissonant lament in my dorm room.  I didn't really intend for it to be any kind of social commentary, but I guess it is.  Programmed the beat on the Alesis SR-16.

Homeless Town

Recorded in Basement Studios, Toledo, OH 2007.

The first and only take of a live one-off piano/vocal track.  I'm not much of a pianist but hack my way through this obsessive possessive hymnal.

Shrine

Originally recorded live at the Feltman Building, Toledo, OH in 2006, this previously unrealized track takes on new life in 2013 with the addition of vocals and lead guitar mixed at the Castle, Chicago, IL.

Benny the Rat is someone who got into some shady business, boasted about it, got in over his head, then disappeared.  Or he might be a rat who did that.

Benny the Rat

Acoustic cover version of a single from The Black Keys 2012 album El Camino. Recorded at the Castle (Chicago, IL) in May 2013. No copyright infringement intended.

This is a one-off featuring live guitar and vocals through my trusty Roland AC-60. I didn't crush the 2nd half of the song like the original, but hopefully didn't take all the rock out of it by going acoustic.

Little Black Submarines (The Black Keys)

Recorded at The Castle, Chicago, IL

I used to play a version of this dirge on bass while Jeff from JD3 would change tunings leading into a DADGAD set- just some filler material.  This recording is a cut-and-paste mix of me playing along live in an attempt to match to a short film a friend of mine had edited; vocals were added later.

Funeral for a Film

Toledo, OH born, Chicago, IL based singer/songwriter/studio project.

Garage rock tracks influenced by Nirvana, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Ben Folds, Elliot Smith, The Beatles, and more... drifting into country, folk, indie, electronic.

No professional material here.  Everything was recorded and mixed in some kind of home studio setup, usually with Apple's free software Garage Band.  Recordings date from the early 2000s to now.

From a neurotic mind but not necessarily my own.  Anxiety, paranoia, mortality, human interaction, technology, duality.

AlBrookside

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