Flashlight Faces

Tom Waits’ Bone Machine is so fucking awesome and I’ve always thought this

Flashlight Faces Flashlight Faces deliver driving roots rock that carries listeners down the haunted byways of our world, with vivid lyrics that evoke the run-down taverns, bowling alleys, and seedy nighttime streets ...

Some of you may not know that I did a couple of album covers for @flashlightfaces.bsky.social. Go give them a spin, they're great!

I do love the psychotic Velvet Sundown lyric “make them pay”

YouTube video by pailbuckets Paul Buchholz at Linneman's

I think this is one of my best recorded performances

youtu.be/CncmtFRRsvM

From the tape trading days

Happy birthday I got you a handheld electronic Blackjack game

The slacker aesthetic has resulted in lyrics that are so much worse than anyone is willing to admit

Support the business of Rock and Roll

You can GET this bad boy NOW

flashlightfaces.bandcamp.com/album/under-...

“build songs,” “building songs” the fuck outta here

Took my Martin D1 (purchased 1999) to the luthier for neck reset and refret, he said the frets are “worn down to nothing,” said it’s a “guitar that tells a story” 😔

[blushes]

I continue to, maybe naively, believe in the newness of what I’m doing, but it probably has to do with how I compare it with my own previous songs rather than to anything external

It is pretty sobering when you see hard evidence of how much more excited people can get about cover bands than ones writing new songs.

Happy to see music I’ve made get played here and there on internet & FM radio this past month, so here it all is again:

lnk.to/underthehammer

paulbuchholz.bandcamp.com

Full respect for a songwriter who posts *60 seconds* of an unreleased song and the government feels the need to put out a statement on it.

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bsky.app/profile/did:...

Thank you @amazingradio.com

The number of people who have independently compared my voice to Bob Mould’s has passed into “statistically significant”

Check out who's been trending on the Amazing Radio site this week! Featuring: @bekahbossard @flashlightfaces @pelowska_a #newmusic #newmusicalert TikTok video by Amazing Radio UK

I really like Amazing Radio (it isn’t extractive or scammy like so many platforms for independent artists are, and you can actually get broadcast) and now we’re apparently #2 on their UK website, with “In There Somewhere.”

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ALkwqp/

Policy for the new batch of songs I’m working on is, if it doesn’t make me cry, it isn’t good enough

Oh wow, if someone literally *buys* our EP on iTunes, we actually see that money

Unhappily felt.
There's almost 0.00% difference between us and the Cleveland/ Midwestern bands we grew up watching, in the 70's and 80's and 90's; + yet they're appreciated, even revered (some more than they ever were then), + we're ignored or scorned, by the same people.
Ngl, it wears on you.

Just speculation but I feel like the heavily diminished role of live music in bars and cafes has generally eroded the idea of a “local band” in many people’s minds (even though there are still tons of local bands). So bands that exist without any claim to fame or all-out virtuosity look weird.

Well the world has seven wonders
That the travelers always tell
Some gardens and some towers
I guess you know them well

YouTube video by Flashlight Faces - Topic I Tried to Be a Rider

Driving music for people who hate cars youtu.be/BMqjGqTIhrA?...

Coming to terms with the fact that I’m not really interested in the sorts of rock music that have completely and totally disavowed any roots in the blues