Favorite albums of 2011

I do this every year, and 2011 was difficult. 01. Pete Peterson || Transitional Farms (and bsides) 02. Office of Future Plans || Office of Future Plans 03. Last Chance to Reason || Level 2 04. Jack Conte || VS4 05. Disasterpeace || Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar 06. City of Ships || Minor World 07. Devin Townsend Project || Deconstruction 08. Textures || Dualism 09. Cave In || White Silence 10. Tesseract || One

Albums that would be there, but came out in 2010: Buke and Gass || Riposte Contortionist || Exoplanet

Thoughts? Counters? Questions? Let's hash it out on Facebook. :) SEE YOU THERE.

Collaboration with John Weible and Dan Taylor for Play it Forward charity album.

Play it Forward is a holiday charity album released today to raise money for Child's Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. John Weible, Dan Taylor and I melded our brains to create, "The Ice of Louisville is Muddy". It's a fun, holiday-themed, post-rock track. If you get the joke in the title, we think you are very cool. You can stream the song below and name your price for the entire album on Bandcamp. Remember, all proceeds go to Child's Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Today, Vampire Variations was released. It's a tribute album to Castlevania to celebrate it's 25th anniversary. I scored a track on there with Chris from Arm Cannon. You can download the entire album at www.vampirevariations.com. Also, I decided to do an acoustic version of "Illogical Hell" from my new album, Zero Over Zero. You can check that out below. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

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Birthday Prog and sElf Cover

Big news soon! But for now, here's a track that a few buddies and I put together for an incredibly talented artist we've worked with, Fox Dragon. He is a selfless and talented man that always does amazing things for birthdays. So, Viking Guitar, Norg, Chunkstyle, Danimal Cannon, and I teamed up and make him a prog souffle. It's fun, and crazy.

I also picked up an acoustic guitar recently! I've never been a fan of the old one, so this had to happen. I've been playing it a bit too much and decided to cover one of my all time favorite sElf songs, Microchip Girl. Live from the country kitchen y'all:

sElf - Microchip Girl

I'll cover ANY song from ANY video game for Japan Relief (Auction)

Hey guys. I'm auctioning myself off and covering ANY song from ANY video game of your choice to raise money for Japan relief. I'm kinda excited! It's alongside efforts from MAGFest.org. You can see the full list of auction items (including covers from other VG artists) here. LET'S DO THIS!