I joined Adeptive Radiation in mid-2010, after eight ridiculously long months in a hippie improvisational band. AR itself is a tributary band, dedicated to the memory of the Belgian Waffles, a noise band from the 1990s. I contributed some music ideas plus original compositions within the five albums (Spines Spindling Sparing Some Seconds Still, Gastric Madness, Optiganeff, Made A Grown Man Cry...
Read MoreWhat began as a routine request for a photograph from a 2009 Chicago music festival, has continued as a great friendship and collaboration well over a decade. From the amusing conspiratorial DOCTA film series (2012-2016), to contributing musician in Sid Yiddish And His Candy Store Henchmen, spontaneous music, parody and video productions and everything else in between. I look forward to many...
Read MoreI met Westley Heine in 2004 while he was still a student filmmaker in Chicago. He cast me in a student film as a drunken news anchor. That same week I met him over drinks, he showed me his poetry and prose. it was good. Damn good. Soon after, we began hanging out together at open mics and before long, we formed the band $2 Cockroach, a poetry jug blues band. The band lasted a total of two years,...
Read MoreA serendipitous moment in time brought this trio (Sid Yiddish, Dr. Nothing & Wednesday Dalmatian) together briefly for 12 months. While the trio performed mostly in bars and festivals, its purpose mostly leaned toward modern day conspiracy idealism and free association performance. The band produced a total of three albums as a unit.
Read MoreThis two-man band gave one performance only during an art festival in Chicago on May 31, 2010 & was a prelude to the present day Sid Yiddish And His Candy Store Henchmen. While Sid ranted and otherwise performed, Yitn Mitn Fidl accompanied Sid on violin.
Read MoreTechnology. It’s what drives all of us in one form or another, having said that, Denmark was the least likely place I thought I would end up as the result of technology! The year was 2007 and I was still on MySpace. Six months earlier, i had just opened a YouTube account and uploaded my first video; a throat singing song of mine entitled Mykel Board Weasel Squeezer. It was sometime in late...
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