Fearless

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Jon Chaisson

Just a song that’s been running through my head lately as I juggle all kinds of personal and professional things and hope it all lands in some kind of clean and orderly fashion.

All is well here, just focusing on a lot of things at once right now!

Fly-By: Something

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Jon Chaisson

I’m a little busy this week with various projects and personal things going on, so in the meantime, please enjoy this absolutely gorgeous strings-only mix of The Beatles’ “Something”, which will be on the Abbey Road Deluxe Edition coming out soon.

This isn’t a shameless promo post — but yeah, I ordered the thing the day it went on pre-sale. No big surprise there!

Fly-by: Relaxing

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Jon Chaisson

Sorry for the fake-out there, kids…Outside Lands took a bit more out of me than I’d expected. Going to take it a little bit easy this week in an attempt to get back some of my energy.

Meanwhile, have a listen to a shoegaze deep cut that pops into my head now and again. Then listen to its ambient reworking by Global Communication.

I should do an overview of both bands. Chapterhouse was a fantastic Britpop/Shoegaze band that didn’t get nearly all the love it deserves. Global Communication on the other hand may be known more for their remix work and their solo outings under their own names (Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard), but their ’73:14′ album is an ambient masterpiece.

Fly-by: Earache My Eye

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Jon Chaisson

Apologies, no full post today. I seem to have gotten an outer ear infection over the weekend and it’s not fun at all. Hopefully I’ll be back up and running next week!

Coming Next Week…

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Jon Chaisson

…I’ll be providing you with an overview of my favorite albums and tunes from 2018. It’s been a great year for music, so it’s gonna take a few entries to go through it all!

In the meantime, here’s an early 2018 favorite of mine to tide you over…

Fly-By: brb, busy doing a bajillion different things.

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Jon Chaisson

Right now I have a hell of a lot on my plate, so I’m going to take the rest of the week off so I can get caught up and give myself a little bit of breathing room. I may take next week off as well. We shall see.

In the meantime, please enjoy this new Beatles video for “Glass Onion”, which will be on the new White Album box set out this Friday. And yes, of course I pre-ordered it ages ago!

Fly-By: brb, Going on Vacation

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Jon Chaisson

Hey all! I’ll be afk all next week as we head to autumnal New England to visit family and friends, get some Dunkies, drive the Mass Pike, and of course marvel at the foliage. I of course made not one but TWO compilations to listen to on the plane.

We shall return once more on the 16th with more tunage!

Writing Time

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Jon Chaisson

As I’d mentioned elsewhere, I’ll be quite busy this month working on revision for In My Blue World. I’ll do my best to continue posting here regularly, though! The entries might not be as intensive as normal, but never fear, I’ll always provide you with some fun tunage!

For now, I’ve got a bit of revision prep work to do these first few days of the month that’s gonna keep me occupied, so I’ll leave you with a few ELO tracks that inspired my new novel.

I’ll be doing my usual month-in-review post of June’s releases on Thursday and the Twenty/Thirty Years On series next week. Thanks for waiting!