Yoo II avec Nolan Potter

Yoo Doo Right, Population II & Nolan Potter: Yoo II avec Nolan Potter (2025)

Ever have one of those workdays that beat you down to the point you can’t remember your name, let alone whatever you had planned when you got home? Today was one of those days, and with only two hours to go I’m going to be very brief about my love for Yoo II avec Nolan Potter, the (possibly) sole output from a two-hour live jam session between Austin, TX psych rocker Nolan Potter and the experimental explorers from Québec: Yoo Doo Right and Population II. TL;DR? Hawkwind circa Space Ritual meets garage groove for some sweet extended jams, perfect for settling down into a better headspace.

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(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 75: FLAC Attack!

I’m starting to get back into the groove. I’ve got stacks of CDs and vinyl records waiting to be spun and reviewed, we’re going to start formally crossing over with Nine Circles, featuring the metal reviews I write over there over here (hence the new menu option – will probably load them up on Sundays) and to top it all off I snagged a sweet DAP (Digital Audio Player) from FIIO, popped a 1TB microSD card in it and started loading my Bandcamp collection in FLAC format to it. Got about 4,000 tracks in it so far, and so I grabbed my headphones, hit the Randomizer, and this is what came out:

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(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 43: This One Went to 11…

Work is a disaster, the world gets even more impossibly (except the reality shows it is in fact entirely possible) insane, and I just can’t keep up. I’m working on the theme for April (it’s gonna be live music all month), prepping for a vacation and for more work insanity as the first quarter ends and the second one begins. It’s like the universe knew I needed heavy music to pound my brain, so this week’s playlist is – almost – all new and heavy music. Dig into the metal below:

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