It's been a while since I've officially released new music, but I've been writing & recording (& performing) regularly these last couple of years. I now have nearly 30 songs to distribute. I'll be compiling them into FIVE EPs, all of which I'll release in 2020. They're called the Weird EPs, because each one punches up a weird trait/sound/emotion. The first one will be Sympathy for the Weird, and should come out this winter. Each EP is a collaboration between REC (my band) and another band, which is why each one - while still all REC/Nick songs - has a different sound/genre association. Sympathy for the Weird is a collab between REC & Vikodin Funeral. You can hear some of these tunes here
Welcome to WEEK 180 of 4T! (Video Episode #6) Run-D.M.C. – Run-D.M.C. (1984) Can’t Ignore This Any Longer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-D.M.C._(album) There are albums that shake the earth. Everyone’s got at least one that, after you listen to it, your world can never be the same. Of the couple dozen that changed my existence, this one here I just can’t ignore any longer. I’ve been sifting through my LP collection these past months, pulling out releases at random, and I knew I couldn’t get to this one until I was ready. I had three copies of Run-D.M.C.’s debut album. Anyone old enough to remember that period can probably guess why. For everyone else, here’s the deal. I was a DJ fo
Welcome to WEEK 179 of 4T! (Video Episode #5) Talking Heads – Remain in Light (1980) The Slow Burn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remain_in_Light I never really knew much about Talking Heads. They were one of those peripheral bands for me – floating in and out of my field of vision depending on my mood & taste timing out right with what they were releasing. Lately I’ve been discovering more about them because I’ll be heading out to see David Byrne’s show in NYC soon, and saw an awesome new tune of his on Colbert. It piqued my interest. Byrne & Talking Heads have always been their own thing. Not quite post punk or New Wave or world music or experimental or pop. Pretty much all of those things
