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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: UTFO, “Bite It” (1985)
I distinctly remember riding to Huntington Beach in the back of my buddy Tarik’s dad’s Jeep Wagoneer with a handful of friends, blasting this cassette on a boombox, and trying to nail impressions of the E.T. voice in the intro. To this day, I’m still not sure how T’s dad put up with a bunch of obnoxious, sugar-fueled 11-year-olds being that simultaneously annoying without strangling us. I’m pretty sure that If I were in his shoes I’d have left that Wagoneer abandoned on PCH with all of us inside and walked my to a clinic to get a vasectomy.
Buy UTFO’s self-titled debut record here.
Random Start: Black Roc, “Done Did It” (Feat. Nicole Wray & NOE)
From the project in which the Black Keys wrote ten instrumental tracks and had a handful of hip-hop artists (Mos Def, Q Tip, Raekwon, RZA, etc.) rap/sing over them. When I first heard of it, I thought it the concept sounded like it had the potential to be cool, but a misstep in its execution would make or break it. Thankfully, the Keys and producer Damon Dash pulled it off and BlackRoc ended up being an awesome and refreshing dose of hip hop.
Buy the BlackRoc record here.
