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All I Want

17 Jun 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Great lyrics and melodies about, but 'All I Want' makesthe whole thing worth having. A song to play at yourfuneral, or perhaps while you plan your funeral."Yavaran   Oswald Chambers said, "where sin and sorrow stop, the song of the saint starts." He...

The Tragedian

22 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"She is the bird that evades every net: thewild deer that leaps every pitfall."The Great Divorce   The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis' response to Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell.  In it, a mortal is led through the afterlife like Dante with a bac...

Van Life on Dagobah

1 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The purpose of our Christian training is to get us into the right relationship to the 'needs' of God and His will.  Once God's 'needs' in us have been met, He will open the way for usto accomplish His will, meeting His 'needs' elsewhere."Oswald Cha...

The Ayahuasca Locker Room

8 Jun 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Don't close your eyes when you open your mind"Sunny Day   Elon Musk is the Kanye West of the tech industry.  Which is not to say he's a moron, but if you think he's a genius, you have no discernment.  I'm not even going to finish the thought.  If yo...

Summer Sale

30 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Now through June 30th, get 20% off everything on my Bandcamp.  Use promo code "pablosmoglives" at checkout.  Entire discography available, including name-your-price deals like Angels on Fire and the early Breakfast at Cuneo's Drive-In demos, and Stum...

Street Music Is Not a Crime: Rising Violence Against European Indie Bands

24 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Eric Matthias Arken

In recent months, reports have emerged across Europe of increasingly aggressive smear campaigns and even physical attacks targeting independent bands who promote their music by selling CDs on the street. What started as online harassment—mainly throu...

Let's Just Be Friends

15 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Love is deadly serious business, so it's important to turn your heart into found VHS footage from a band on 80s Mexican public access TV, before it's too late. It's also wise to make sure the song is less than 2 minutes long.  That way, the stone sh...

New Music Release: Mother Africa

7 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Solar Phasing

Bonjour, A new official release for @solarphasing called: Mother AfricaA Groovy World Music Downtempo with Percussions.(2025 Master).Listen it! :0) On Audius:Solar Phasing - Mother Africa: https://audius.co/SolarPhasing/mother-africa On Bandcamp:Sola...

The Yellow Martini

30 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Piss Christ is a picture of a crucifix submerged in controversy.  Piss Demons is the alternate title for the original cover art for Everything I Have Is Yours, my only gospel album to date.  The stained background of the photo is so disgusting you ca...

Rock & Roll Garage Sale (redux)

21 Apr 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

My Bandcamp is live again, after nearly a decade of being in private mode.  Not only does Bandcamp fail to provide alternative payment platforms, such as direct deposit, they take it upon themselves to automatically donate their proceeds on certain d...