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My name is Riley, and I play drums and write music for a band called Thrice.
This is where I ramble about music, sports, food, books, interwebbery, and whatever else I feel like sharing. I apologize in advance.
In addition to my ramblings here, I write a piece for OC Weekly called "3hree Things" that runs every Tuesday, and I'm also writing over at Flip Collective on occasion.
I'm the co-founder of a baseball-specific twitter feed and blog with my friend Ian, called Productive Outs.
And last, but not least, I have a bandcamp page and a soundcloud page that I'll be posting my own music and remixes on every once in a while.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions presented on this blog are mine, and do not reflect the position or views of the band as a whole.
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Flashback Friday: Ralph Tresvant, “Sensitivity” (1990)
This jam from the former New Edition frontman landed at #1 on the R&B charts back when I was a freshman in high school who wore Skidz overalls and Starter jackets in public. Despite Brandon Jennings’ best attempts to bring back the high-top fade a couple of years ago, it never really caught on again. I think we need a Ralph Tresvant revival if we’re ever going to make that happen. And it wouldn’t hurt to have Kenny “Sky” Walker, Charles Smith, and Kid from Kid ‘n Play onboard too.
Random Start: Clouds, “Guardian’s Eyes”
A monster of a song from Cave In guitarist, Adam McGrath’s side project, Clouds. I wasn’t able to find an album version of the track on YouTube, but I think this live video captures the band’s energy perfectly.
Buy Legendary Demo here.
Random Start: M83, “Teen Angst”
I don’t listen to nearly enough M83. That’s gonna change, effective immediately.
Buy Before The Dawn Heals Us here.
Random Start: Aphex Twin, “Jynweythek Ylow”
A hauntingly beautiful song from the infinitely bizarre double album, Drukqs by Aphex Twin. If you want to take your ears and brain on a serious (drug-free) trip, listen to Drukqs on headphones, alone, in a dark house.
Buy Drukqs here.
The lady just finished a painting for the 2012 Laguna Art Museum Auction.
Lithos of this piece and a lot of her other work should be available fairly soon.
Textual - With a Twist of Love
Random Start: Textual, “With A Twist Of Love”
Textual is the side project of producer/drummer/multi-instrumentalist Dave LeBleu, who is best known for his work in The Mercury Program (one of my favorite bands). Textual popped up a in Random Start a couple of months ago, and rather than rehashing an old post, I’ll keep it simple…if you’re into what you hear here, you need to pick up the entire Textual discography. (Don’t worry, there are only three releases and they’re all great.)
You can do that here.
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In this week’s 3hree Things, a claustrophobic, anxiety-riddled dumbshit goes to one of the largest music product conventions in the world and lives to tell the tale.
Random Start: Radiohead, “Go To Sleep”
You can’t really go wrong with Radiohead on a rainy morning.
Buy the “Go To Sleep” (single) here. The song “Gagging Order” is an incredible b-side.
If you like heavy, instrumental, mathy metal, you NEED this Loincloth record. If you want a detailed description of what you might hear when you buy it, please read Aaron Burgess’ excellent review at Altpress.com.
Big thanks to Matthew Taylor from Motion City Soundtrack for turning me onto what is one of the better heavy records I’ve heard in quite a while.
Buy Iron Balls of Steel here.
I saw Nails open for Dillinger Escape Plan last night (and by “saw”, I mean “watched them on a TV from the other room because I was saving my ears for the aural assault that is DEP”) and even from afar, I was blown away to the point that I had to pick up their record Unsilent Death today. If you like your music brutal, heavy, fast and pissed off as hell, you’re gonna want to add this to your playlist immediately.
Buy Unsilent Death here.
