BELLS SOUND COOL

Hey Friendos – So we’re in Venice a few months ago, and around noon, every bell at every church in earshot – and friends, it’s Venice, so that’s no small number of bells and churches – goes off. I ask my kid if he knows why so many bells are going off. He tells me […]

THE HOMIE STAMPEDE

Here’s what you do (instructions per my kid): And that’s how you do…The Homie Stampede: The Steel Ape Sessions, Vol. 24 Pt. Three Work is well underway for April, so keep it here, and throw an elbow around your homie’s neck and run for it. Till Then,Yours in Apes, AG.

Credo di averti visto pangere

Lotta ppl had themselves a rough January (none rougher than the long list of RIPs on this mix), so here’s looking at a better, brighter February, and a couple jams to get you through it, so here, have: I Think I Saw You Cry: The Steel Ape Sessions, Vol. 24, Pt. Two (140) Hang in, […]

YEAR TEN

Friendos – Welcome back from the holidays! Apologies for the lateness, but I’ve been doing some traveling, and taking breaks from my responsibilities (even self-imposed ones like making a mixtape every month for god only knows how long), but we’re back, baby, and it’s THE TENTH YEAR OF THIS BUSINESS. Let’s start the year ahead […]

TIS THE SZN (3 OF 3): THE END?

SPOILER: IT’S NOT THE END. Not when next year is the TENTH YEAR OF STEEL APE SESSIONS. But before we welcome the new year, let’s kiss this one’s ass goodbye with: BULLSHIT: The Steel Ape Sessions, Vol. 23 WITH! Heads-up that the January mix will come in a little past the first of the month/year, […]

tis the szn (2 OF 3): filthy animals

“Merry Christmas. Sorry I fucked you over.” – Gay Perry PREPARE YOUR HOLES FOR: THE HUMAN SANTAPEDE: A Very Merry Steel Apesmas – Vol. 23, Pt. Seventeen (137) Rounding out th eyear with a best-of mix, coming your way in the next week or two! Till then,Happy Holidays,Yours in Apes, AG.

‘TIS THE SZN (1 of 3): Clown RESTAURANT

We’re driving by the remodeled McDonald’s on Riverside and Lankershim, when from the backseat my 10 yr-old scoffs at the bougie-fication of McDonald’s. His logic – and this is a kid who’s maybe been to six, seven McDonald’ses in his lifetime – is that you know what you’re there to get, and making it look […]

11/23, 2 of 2

FRIENDOS – I said “two mixtapes in November,” and … so, here! Have mix! Spaghebbi: The Steel Ape Sessions, Vol. 23 Pt. Fifteen (135) WITH! And friendos, if you think a November twofer is too hot to touch, wait’ll the DECEMBER TRIFECTA, dropping soon. Till then, have a pleasant Thanksgiving, and as ever, Yours in […]

11/23, 1 of 2

Friendos! If the central tenet of curation is making choices, then as a curator, I’m having a rough go of it this month. First, this mixtape was going to be double-length, for how many songs I had fallen in love with for it. Then, it was back to regular length, with overflow songs moving to […]

THIRTY YEARS AND COUNTING

FRIENDOS! Picture it, Baltimore, Fall 1993. Pearl Jam had just débuted Animal at the VMAs. In Utero and Last Splash had just dropped. (so, for that matter, had Animaniacs, Frasier, True Romance, and The Simpsons, Season 5) And a spindly high school senior, rat-goatee growing slowly but surely back in after his parents insisted he […]