Breaker's Point Podcast

I wish I could say anything notable or newsworthy has happened during this miniature hiatus from writing these, but nothing really has. I am still neck-deep in my job search, so if any of my readers have any connections, anything would help at this point! This process is not fun. The music industry is competitive and getting a job is often a result of who you know and being in the right place at t...

There is so much going on in my life right now. I apologize for how long you have to wait for a newsletter from me these days. I have been busy, but it has also been intimidating to write lately just because there is so much stuff I deem worthy of sharing. I have to devote a great chunk of time to writing about it. Since the last time we spoke, I have graduated college. Graduating college is a mil...

Guess who’s back? I hope everyone is doing well as we enter the home stretch of winter. It is bitterly cold today in Syracuse and it has been for the past couple of weeks. We got a lot of snow here, but in true Syracuse fashion, you would hardly even know it with how fast plows came out and the streets and sidewalks were salted. Overall, this Syracuse winter rivals my freshman-year winter in frigi...

My devoted readers! Hello! Sorry that there has not been a newsletter in a long time. I actually have been busy, but I need to start blocking out time to write these because I still love doing it. It is hard to believe that it is already mid-February. Let me tell you what I have been up to. I have been playing solo acoustic lately, which has been fun and less stressful—especially at school. There...

I wanted to get this out yesterday or the day before, but I got hit with some nasty food poisoning and did not have the physical or mental strength to deliver a column of desired quality. With that being said, here we are. It is 2023. Even though I am a sentimental person, I have never really been sentimental about the year coming to a close as many are. However, 2022 was an eventful year for me f...

Happy Halloween to all my readers! I do not know how I feel about Halloween, so I thought it would make for nice Breaker’s Point material if I talk through it and maybe evidently tackle how I feel about the holiday as a 21-year-old guy. I will start by saying that I loved Halloween when I was a kid. There was nothing like showing up to school in full costume and seeing what all your other friends...

I took a break. I hope I can get you all back on board because I have missed writing these, but it just got away from me this semester so far. My brain is actually feeling the effects of it; it is cluttered. The whole point of this was for me to share what I am thinking about on a week-to-week basis, but I did not realize how cathartic it is to put these thoughts on paper. The initial idea was to...

Hello readers. I am coming to you from Bird Library at Syracuse University, where today I embark on my final first day of school. EVER! It is a crazy feeling, but at least now, I am excited about being here and enjoying every second of my senior year. Before I mention anything else, I want to remind all of my readers in the Syracuse area that I have a show at the Westcott Theater on Thursday. It i...

The past couple of weeks has been exciting for me. First of all, two brand new songs have emerged since we have last spoken; and they are called “Blood You Draw” and the second one is called ummm…..well…….I don’t have a name for it yet. We will get to that later because *spoiler alert* our Mnemonic Advice recording for the column is that song. Anyway, I had a show at Bowery Electric. It was a long...

Hello everyone. Thank you for patiently waiting for another edition of Breaker’s Point to drop. Sorry that it has been over a week now. With that being said, I have a lot to cover and I will start by telling you how my first New York City gig went! To refresh your memory, my band Mnemonic Advice played the Delancey on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on June 30th, and I am happy to report that we...

We're sick and tired of your ism-schism game Dy'n' and go to Heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord We know when we understand Almighty God is a living man You can fool some people sometimes But you can't fool all the people all the time So now we see the light We gonna stand up for our rights - Bob Marley I love words, and I love talking, and I love writing, but sometimes I have way too much to say and wa...

TGIF, right? I have a lot to report so I will get right to it. My show last Friday went really great, in spite of encountering adversity when keyboardist, Chance Mazzo came down with a double ear infection and a fever the day of the show. We were already without Matty, which took us from a five-piece band to a four-piece band. Then, lo and behold, we became a trio with me on guitar and vocals, Jac...

Oh man, just typing that subtitle made me want to spin some Hendrix. Hendrix is one of those artists that every single generation can and will appreciate. If you ask any human in the world who the best guitarist of all time is, I am willing to wager that 75% of people will say Jimi Hendrix. I think that is awesome. It is also true. Mind you the greatest guitarist of all time and my favorite guitar...

Welcome to the first Wednesday Breaker’s Point! I am sorry that I am so late with this one, but Monday was a holiday, so give me some slack there. As for Tuesday, well, I was busy. This is a jam-packed newsletter today because I have a lot to write about. First, I would like to announce that I will be playing a show at Redhouse in Boonton on Friday, June 10th. It is my first show since I believe m...

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It is happening. Ladies and gentlemen this is not a drill. Today Bruce Springsteen’s social media accounts posted a video with highlights from 2016’s The River tour with “Born in the USA” in the background. The end of the video said “May 24th, 2022 brucespringsteen.net.” Do you know what that means? That means that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will announce a tour tomorrow. I have not s...

I am sorry. I know I promised one more European Breaker’s Point newsletter, and for that matter, a newsletter in general last week. I got busy! I mentioned here that I was going to Florence and Rome, and it turns out there is a lot to do in Florence and Rome, even if half of it is eating. It was an amazing trip to cap an amazing semester in Europe, exceeding all of my expectations. We saw everythi...

This is the last Breaker’s Point that I will be writing in London. That is crazy to me. It has been one of those things where I feel like I have been here my whole life though it feels like this whole semester has absolutely flown by. I am upset to leave this place and for this experience to end. My friends and I call this abroad semester fake life. We will never have free reign of a city like thi...

Hello, my friends. This is the latest I have ever sat down to write one of these, on a Monday at least. It is 9 pm here in London. Let’s see if this entry to this big public journal I have created changes when the sun goes down. So, Elon Musk bought Twitter today for $44 billion and is making the company private. That is a lot for me to process and I have a lot of thoughts about Elon Musk, what he...

I know everyone was on the edge of their seats for the newest edition of Breaker’s Point. I am sorry that it did not come out yesterday or even earlier today. I have been busy, but here I am now and I hope everyone that celebrates had a very happy Easter. My family visited me here in London this weekend. They got here on Thursday and just left today. It was so fun showing them around the city, the...

Wow, I am tired. I was in Edinburgh this weekend (more on that later) and last night nothing could go our way as far as getting back to London as quickly and efficiently as possible. We had a 9:15 PM flight that was delayed to 10:15 PM. The flight was longer than expected too as we were taxiing in the sky for quite some time. We finally land and the tubes are closed and the only public transportat...

Here we go. Welcome to the fifth issue of the Breaker’s Point newsletter. I am having so much fun doing these, and I look forward to sharing music and my thoughts with all of you each week. I extend a warm greeting to any newcomers, and for you initial subscribers; thanks for paying attention and even telling your friends. It means a lot to me. I had quite a long weekend, yet it was packed with fu...

Hello readers. After last week’s entry and my mom’s promotion of it on Facebook, I feel like there might be a lot of newcomers. That is awesome. Welcome to Breaker’s Point; you are guaranteed to have the time of your life. I do not have a whole lot to say this week. It was a busy weekend with a lot of going out, so I am tired and I am recovering. I watched the Mets game yesterday to see deGrom and...

Hey, all you cool cats and kittens! (Remember Tiger King? That is how Carole Baskin greeted her viewers in all of her videos. Weird. She totally killed her husband, by the way.) Anyhow, thank you to everyone for being so supportive and reading these entries, listening to the songs, and sharing them. It means a lot and encourages me to keep writing. I just got done with going down a little rabbit h...