The Earth Hotel

A week brings us a new grasp on life's softer corners and murkier motions, and this week in particular is full of music that moves all bright and sharp and full of warmth. See BELOW: Miss Mojo: http://www.missmojonola.com/about/ Bandcamp Youtube Miss Mojo are:  Jenna Winston VOCALS *** Piper Browne VOCALS *** Cody Greenstein RHYTHM GUITAR *** Rob Kellner KEYS *** Leo Skovron BASS **...

Last week, in the times before the second (third) coming of Flusnoix to the Earth Hotel, I spoke with the fellow that books the shows at the Soft Rock and the lovely folks that live within it. The next week, I fell violently ill and found time between my migraine visions and yelling at the moon to conduct a savage ritual to contact the astral secretary of Joel Nelson. I was rewarded with a inspire...

Earlier this month I ventured to a secret spot in Birmingham for a last-minute show swap with Dead Neighbors from Atlanta finishing up a recent tour, and two groups from our home beat; Frozen Yogurt, a raucous boom bap noise group, (from what I heard, arriving near the end of their set), and the joyously vicous Wax Fur. Tuesdays are for live show sessions and mix-match listening! More to come. 0.0...

Friday the 13th brought the Soft Rock a collection of players exquisite and serene. Flusnoix headmistress Jess Marie Walker gave the floor to her fellow members of the improvisation collective, and welcomed renowned, expressive players in their wake. This time, Flusnoix was: Jess Marie Walker (fluxsound, vocal), Walker Yancey (drums), Rodney D. Hasty (submitted recording), Brent Stauffer (bass), B...

Enjoy the music from me and my friends and the talking from a car outside everyone's favorite gently-patina'd bar in Birmingham. Check out A Place Both Wonderful and Strange's new album below! Join us on Friday for a sparkling fascinating conversation I had with Birmingham's media wizard Charles. https://aplaceboth.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/aplaceboth/ http://www.theearthhotel.org/bor...

The man is sometimes behind the camera and sometimes behind the guitar but always behind Birmingham's musick-ers. Daniel Hargett joins us to talk about the webseries Welcome to Monotonia, which he created and directs. Their first season is airing every Sunday on the Earth Hotel network, and his groups Future Primitives and The Secret Midnight Band can be found all over Birmingham and the Southeast...

SEASON THREE BRINGS THE NOISE AND THINKING STUFF Our compatriot Joel Nelson is the guest on this first episode of the new season. We have a long exchange about his new habitat in Oakland, CA, what performance and audiences are like out in the West, Maggie Nelson's The Art of Cruelty, and the function of art in making some sense out of this mucky world we have here. Thanks to everyone for returning...

If you can see this then we're back. Don't turn around, don't look behind your phone. There's nothing under there.  This is a Pre-Season 3 Special Episode to bring us into and through August to the sweet Autumn.  I speak with Russ Marshalek of the raving occult freak-out trio A PLACE BOTH WONDERFUL AND STRANGE, and we cover ground like witches cover ground. He tells me about his personal...

mix-matching and cross-fading of songs from here and abroad, friends and odd allies. The Dead Balloons - "Bobby Sykes" MEMS - "Born in Water" Vantage Planets - "Back to Ganymede" Great Smokey - "Ask the Question" **Bobby Rocknrolls (pt. 2) Live! at Avondale Fight Club 2: The Altercation (featuring MC JT Habersaat) Dead Balloons: https://deadballoons666.bandcamp.com/ MEMS: https://soundcloud.com/me...

0.00.00 - Welcome to the Earth Hotel // 0.07.50 - "Old Life" - Dommel Mosel // 0.11.31 - Interview with Adam Measel // 0.29.21- "Marco Polo" - Dommel Mosel // 0.33.17 - Interview continues // 0.38.18 - "Creeks" - Improvisation, AM and JC // 0.41.16 - "Of Mice" by MEMS // 0.44.13 - Dommel Mosel Live! at Fight Club 2 // 0.51.22 - Bobby Rock n Roll Live! at FC2 //

AHOY ALL EVERYONE Last week we were treated to a rocking evening at the Soft Rock Bungalow starring Giant Sunbeam and the Noise and a beast of a band indeed: SEX CAMEL. This foursome of gentlemen make the sex desert passable and the sex dessert just within reach. Giant Sunbeam and the Noise Boys lent their bizarre twist to jazzy funk and laid down a killer middle set, and the Dizzy closed out with...

We're beginning a concert series this week, because we have a distressing array of full, live sets from talented folks and we gotta do something with them. So this week you'll hear MEMS from Baltimore, who displayed an equally distressing array of instruments, vocal techniques, and time displacements in their performance at the Soft Rock Bungalow on April 12. Next TOOSDEE you'll be treated to soun...

Amid strange local weather and a tumultuous Springing yet, we return for a minisode to satiate you late nighters with us until we can bring the noise back in full on Friday. Chroma Cove, the art gallery run by our Andrea Dillingham, has burned like a phoenix, but in our interview she assures me that this is not its final form. I agree, and support her fully, and you can too! Donate to her Gofundme...

Over the next three weeks, the minisodes will feature music from a promotional Springfest 2017 CD bearing a spread of artists that played the one-day festival in Woodlawn. Our art prayers go to that facility for a prosperous future. This week is a diverse mix of garage sleazy bites, far-out beaty things, and intensely honest crafted rap. To open the show, we are pleased to present our good friend...

The show is back for the tail of March and Spring has funked everyone up. This episode features the Dizzy reading a scene from Night of the Living Dead at the very first Live Earth Hotel Podcast at Springfest 2017 in Woodlawn, AL. Live, glitched music by Kyle Weems from a doomed night at Eclipse and selections from two shows I attended finish the episode strong. MUCH MUSIC. Medusa's Disc...

Eclipse dun got rocked by two bands this Friday night (March 3) and they both happen to be friends of mine. Giant Sunbeam and the Noise (Episode 7) and Cahaba (Montevallo Music Podcast and EH Archive) returned to the podcast from the Eclipse stage to show you some chops that they like to use musically. Unfortunately, the Cahaba recordings were not as impactful as the live show, so I'll include a t...

Myself is joined by Neeta-Burger-self and Kevin-Peek-self in Neeta's apartment to talk a LOT about music, the local scene, emotional selves, and the ticking clock of life. Neeta shares her time and talent between her original act, Sister Sniffle, now a band, Spores, a local "magical" act, and a solo acoustic act showcased here, BORINGHAM. Kevin plays with a local rock group by the name of Hurl Yea...

Our second mini show features live music from CLASP, a Philadelphia band who played on a bill with me for a gas generator show under a bridge this weekend. Songs by Clasp: "Sorry to catch you on your way out" / "M M K" / "Orange Juice" Later that night, Saturday II 25, I joined Andrea Dillingham, Lindsey Shante, and numerous Birmingham visual artists to put some exhibitionism into the local art sc...

We're back to close out the month of February with adventures in circuit bending: (the practice of dismantling and corrupting keyboards or electronic instruments). My friend and Montevallo ex-pat Will Mcdonald joins me in the studio to give me a demo of his bent Casio SK-5, and we end up talking about Dada and Word Magick. This episode features a song by defunct Montevallo jazz group AL-QAEDA the...

No guest this week and I splain why that is! Nearly all music for this composite episode, with Montevallo's improvisational powerhouse Flusnoix closing out with a 45-minute set. Thanks for your continued listening and support! Check out below the timestamps for dates and links to the content. Next week's Friday show has a viewer mail segment, so send in questions and comments at theearthhotel@gmai...

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In this retrospective series, I explore the history and technique behind the song "Clara" on Scott Walker's 2006 album The Drift . ( Buy and listen here). [ I absolutely do not own The Drift, "Clara," or the album art by Vaughan Oliver at v23. Clip of Scott Walker's interview taken from the documentary 30 Century Man ( available here ). Newsreel footage of Piazzale Loreto can be viewed below. For...

We've been away and yet return unphased. The Earth Hotel continues as a propaganda party and a sweet practice in stereopolitick. This week, Aislinn and Alex of Birmingham's Spectral Wolfpack Squad delve into their passion and sensitivity to the phantasmic and obscure to share stories and ideas from their time as paranormal investigators. You can find video documentation of their travels and experi...

This super-packed half show features my friend Ryan Brown and I sharing some spooky unexplained experiences we each have had. I also got around to writing an equally spooky sonata to serve as our Podcast theme, and you'd better bet I'll re-perform it in so many future forms. The archives open up and give us a demo from my long-upcoming album Hypnocracy , and the Dizzy reports from that time we pai...

the Dizzy is a band in Birmingham, and I am in that band. https://www.facebook.com/thedizzyband/ We step out into a darkened corridor to explore new options and alternate times. I read a cut-up translation of the Star-Spangled Banner, and we hear announcements from both the (a) President and a mysterious church organization of a begotten wasteland-in-the-making. Check us out and check on in. 0.00....