Newdrivehome

A journey, including all of lifes nonsense.

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  • Newdrivehome Blog #9(Cipher – Toxic Regret) Hip hop was king in the house growing up…I’m not talking modern day rap/hip-hop (although I respect its entertainment value). I mean the days of Death Row Records and Bad Boy; Tupac vs. Biggie; East coast vs West coast. Hip-hop always holds a special place in my heart. Lowkey…I…

  • Newdrivehome Blog #8 (M83 – “We Own the Sky”) Since I can remember I’ve always loved John Hughes 80’s movies (The Breakfast Club; Uncle Buck; Plains, Trains, and Automobiles; Sixteen Candles, Weird Science…you get the picture). The way he told the timeless story of teen angst that occurred during that time is legendary. The stories…

  • Newdrivehome Blog #7(Joe Salazar – “Paradise Ends”) It was only amount of time before I brought one of my own songs into this blog. I think this song was my favorite writing and recording. I recorded this song at the beginning of 2011, a year after my divorce and I asked my friend Kill Paradise…

  • Newdrivehome Blog #6 (Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash – “Girl of the North Country”) Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan…what else is there to say? Bob Dylan singularly pushed me to write music and be proud of it. I remember a single moment in my life that I fell in love of Dylan’s songwriting and artistic…

  • Newdrivehome Blog #5 (Ryan Adams – Everybody knows) I meant to post yesterday but I’m still getting used to being so open about music, my world that means me so much. But here it is. I gravitated to this song after my first (only) marriage started to disintegrate and I’ve always found it again when…

  • I remember first hearing Explosions in the Sky in 2004, I was 17? (BTW Thanks for their music introduction Ben Price…hope you’re well man). I immediately fell in love with about what EITS were playing and what feeling they brought out of me. Some may call it “elevator music” and in some sense it is…but…

  • It’s been a while since I posted on the blog…but listening to this today reminded me how this album changed my life. I think I first heard a The Postal Service song in high school from a friend, Logan Vath and I didn’t know what to do with myself for weeks. It somehow captured how…

  • I remember being around 10 years old…during the summer and coming across The Smashing Pumpkins “1979” video (when MTV played…music, you member?) I heard the nostalgia in that song…a feeling I wouldn’t even understand until my mid 20s. And I kept it in the back of my mind. I think even then I understood the…

  • I’ve never felt a need to create a blog like this, but realized with who I am…it makes sense, somehow. I wanted to put my thoughts aloud and hopefully connect, converse with others thoughts/experiences/…failures? I still don’t know what I’m trying to accomplish but we’ll start with songs that molded who I am: First, this…