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The conversation about this feature story for Charleston Home + Design Magazine started two years ago as Mark Bryan was still in construction on his studio.
I absolutely love how the final piece turned out! On stands locally now, or you can check it out right here.
Many thanks to Micaela Arnett and Paige Taylor for seeing this through. The beautiful photography is by Callie Cranford.
Favorite local band? SUSTO!
More with MOTORCADE over at Last Day Deaf!
Drummer Jeff Ryan reveals his preference for using a single bit or double bit axe when chopping wood in response to their "9+1 Q&A" column. Also mentioned: Echo and the Bunnymen, A Clockwork Orange, Roxy Music, Wire, and Sleepaway Camp.
New album ππ¦π¦ π π°πΆ ππ― ππ©π¦ ππ°π΅π©πͺπ―π¨ out now on Idol Records. The band plays a Record Store Day set at Good Records in Dallas on Saturday, April 23 at 5PM CT.
Loving what writer Lee Zimmerman says today at Goldmine Magazine in his intro to Mark Bryanβs "10 Albums That Changed My Life,β for which he actually wanted to name 20 (including Tom Waits, XTC, The Ramones, and The Replacements, along with other usual and essential suspects).
"It seems inevitable that Bryan will forever be associated with the band he helped found, Hootie and the Blowfish. Regardless of any popular perception, Bryan boasts a stellar solo career... the ever-emphatic ππͺπ₯ππͺπ§π¦ ππ³πͺπ€π¦ππ¦π΄π΄ establishes a new high bar as far as his individual achievement."
Jenny Parrott visited the Austin Artists Collective show on KOOP Radio yesterday to chat about her new album ππ©π¦ ππͺπ³π¦ π ππ’πΈ with host PJ Pullus. Now, through the magic of the interwebs, you can hear what happened yesterday today. Folks, that's what I call progress. Listen!
Much appreciation to Glide Magazine for the continued support of Gregory Ackerman, this time by sharing ππ΅πͺππ ππ’πͺπ΅πͺπ―π¨ ππ΅πͺππ track βAll This Thinking.β Gregory tells us that he wrote the song during βa period of extreme anxietyβ and that it helped him find βa way out.β As with all the songs on the new album, βAll This Thinkingβ is a great listen for unburdening the mind.
Gregory Ackermanβs much-anticipated new LP Still Waiting Still is out today (listen here), and heβs also received the podcast treatment from Alex Green of Stereo Embers.
Some great intro words from Alex, as usual: βThe album is as breezy as it is rivetingβitβs a brilliant meditation on the quotidian life and its daily comforts and disruptions. Ackermanβs work is intimate and confiding and played with the kind of commanding interior strength that gives it an instantly timeless quality. It's a rich and seamless collection of woebegone West Coast loneliness that perfectly contrasts the sunrises and sunsets of Southern California with the corresponding highs and lows of the human heart.β