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Secret Wilderness is playing a free show on Sunday Aug 20 at Art Sound Language in Chevy Chase DC at 6pm.

The stars aligned on Saturday between torrential downpours Friday and Sunday for two excellent DC shows that me, Sean, and Ahmad got to attend. Even the parking gods were with us hitting 14th Street in DC at 10pm at night. I wasn’t entirely familiar with John Duncan but Sean caught…

Went up to New York to visit my brother-in-law and his husband for a quick weekend getaway. Took the ferry from Sunset Park to Wall Street and went up to the Zwirner gallery to check out the Gerhard Richter exhibit. Richter’s exhibit contained his last paintings and a selection of…

Unleashing some new demos that I’ve been working on this winter at the Evening Star Cafe in Alexandria VA.

Tristan Welch’s new album Temporary Preservation comes out on April 30, 2021 and I got to collaborate with him on the song “Soul Exhaustion.” Tristan and I have been talking about collaborating for some time and this is the first of a few things we’ve been working on together. (He’s…

I’ve known Rick Taylor for about 18 years, one longer than he’s been doing his monthly DJ night, We Fought The Big One, at the Marx Cafe in Mount Pleasant DC. I met Rick from Alcian Blue and the time I had my own DJ night with my friend Tim…

Out now on Ice Station Records is a new 3 song EP by my cat, Mr. Jackpots. The album documents his first summer in our new house surrounded by trees and wildlife. 100% of the proceeds of this album are going to a rescue league Kim and I support, Lost…

The tapes are in and they turned out above my expectations in sound quality. The format allowed for me to crank the masters and utilize the natural compression and saturation a cassette tape gives. Cassettes were a great portable (and affordable) format and there was a spot in College Park…

I posted a new track on Soundcloud full of paranoia and dread that I recorded this summer called Information Junkies. Secret Wilderness · Information Junkies I used a Korg Volca FM and a Roland SH01A to track this one. The sample is from an interview Neil Postman gave about the…

This is a repost from my Ice Station Studio site (mixing and mastering work). I’m really excited to announce the Alcian Blue Collection double cassette box set that is coming soon on Anathemata Editions. This was an idea that Terence and Sean Gray (Fan Death Records/Birth Defects) had a few…