I will never forget the first time I heard Disintegration by The Cure. It was released in May 1989, right around the time that I graduated from high school. Coming […]
Author: Jason Mundok
Getting the Fuck Out of My Own Way
In my previous post, I reflected on my “why” for playing music and how that “why” evolved over the past three decades. Five years ago when I was in my […]
Why Do I Create?
I’ve grappled with this question my whole life. The “why” question. Why do I carry this urge to create things, or more particularly in my case, to create music? I […]
Formlessness Tines
On January 5, 2019 I had the pleasure of heading over to Phoenixville, PA, a 45 minute drive northwest of Philadelphia, with my friend Josh to experience an evening of […]
Rock and Roll Book Club
Back in 2014 Pat Buzzard, one of my oldest friends, told me about a new podcast he and some buddies were working on. For about a year he and Mark […]
My Favorite Rock Album of 2018
The Smashing Pumpkins latest album, Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. (phew), quickly became my favorite rock album of 2018. For a longtime […]
My Favorite Pop Album of 2018
I can’t remember the first time I heard Still Corners, but I’m guessing it was long before I knew who they were. I believe it was through a Pandora channel […]
My Favorite Instrumental Album of 2018
I have friends (you know who you are) that pay a lot of attention to new music that comes out every month, week, or even day. For a time I […]
ETF season one
In the middle of 2018 I launched the Erase the Filter podcast. My original goal was to produce a weekly show featuring unconventional, experimental, atmospheric, and ethereal music and art. Unexpected […]
ETF006: DJ Olive Listens to Fir
Gregor Asch is DJ Olive. He’s an electronic and ambient musician, and a visual artist, now living in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. He helped create a fresh experimental […]