Advice for composers and bedroom producers: Learn drum rudiments. They’re easy to grasp, and incorporating flams, drags, rolls, and paradiddles will help your percussion writing in any genre.

The Maw knows only hunger. Map by @czepeku.bsky.social, featuring my track “Crel-Vohr the Blight (Strike)”

One aspect of sleepwalking into authoritarianism that I wasn't expecting is just how little there is to say about it. "Yeah, this predictably evil thing is bad." "Oh, that thing Trump did is bad." "All these (technically illegal) things are very bad." It's straight up not very interesting.

Repel the assault, save the base. Simple as. Map by @czepeku.bsky.social Sci-Fi, featuring “Seething Skull” by @boroughbound.bsky.social

Did you know you can pitch @neverpo.st? Head to neverpo.st, click Pitch Us in the nav bar up top, and take a look at our guidelines. No audio experience necessary; we pay!

You’ve spent months seeking the gate. Now that you’ve found it, are you prepared to leave this world behind? Map by @czepeku.bsky.social, featuring music by @boroughbound.bsky.social

My buddy @tomcartos.bsky.social just launched his latest Kickstarter. I've helped out with each of these so far, and I can't recommend them enough. Tom's maps rule, and these books are easily the best way to bring physical maps to the table. Plus, there's a music stretch goal 👀

Listening to my DnD Crime playlist this AM. Lots of quirky, jazzy bops to help you score seedy underbellies, methodical heists, and so forth.

It’s peaceful here in the courtyard… do you really want to press ahead? Map by @czepeku.bsky.social, featuring “The Everlasting Garden,” a tune I wrote for @boroughbound.bsky.social

Plenty of cover, minimal security, just a few drones to deactivate. Stealth should be viable. Map by @czepeku.bsky.social, featuring “Badlands” by @boroughbound.bsky.social

The perfect place to refill your canteen while the wainwright sees to your carriage. Map by @czepeku.bsky.social, featuring my track “The New Gods”

It’s a long way out west. Map by @czepeku.bsky.social, music from my @boroughbound.bsky.social project

You’re saying the aliens… BUILT this? Right under our noses? Map by @czepeku.bsky.social Sci-Fi, featuring my track “Charon (Shadow)”

I know in my heart of hearts that Gavin Newsom is a piece of shit, and—separately—none of his "le epic trolling!!!" has made me laugh even a little bit.

You need to resupply anyway, so ya might as well make a stop at your favorite airborne cafe. Map by @czepeku.bsky.social, featuring my track “Fest of the Alignment”

A rational person would never drink alcohol. Any potential benefits are dwarfed by the risk of starting a Groundhog Day scenario with a hangover.

What a blessing that Gwen Stefani has (seemingly) never met Awkwafina.

Raising a ska baby by toasting PEEK-A-BOO PEEK-A-BOO PEEK-A-BOO PEEK-A-BOO.

It’s lonely on the asteroid, but at least the mining corp pays well. Map by @czepeku.bsky.social Sci-Fi, featuring an unreleased track of mine

This city will chew you up and spit you out. Map by @czepeku.bsky.social Sci-Fi, featuring my track “Steelfang Offensive (Stealth)”

One day, I’m going to write a very long essay about Miles Davis’s influence on Dark Souls, and then I will never speak again.

To think... this temple has been lying at the bottom of the sea this whole time. Map by @czepeku.bsky.social, featuring my track "Honeycoral"

Should I rank every single music track in Mario Kart World?

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Boo Cinema? More like Yay Cinema! I love movies!

It's Bandcamp Firday! Here's my brand new space fantasy album. Please buy it because it is good.

No, LinkedIn, I am not hiring for "Range Sheepherder" at Michigan State University.

Our newest album is out now! Nulvarith consists of 8 tracks at the intersection of outer space adventure and fantasy pulp. This one is perfect for tabletop adventures through cosmic realms!

I'm thinking today about two of my incredible composition professors—Harold Meltzer and Lew Spratlan—both of whom have now passed. There's a common wisdom among music teachers that goes something like: "if you can do anything else as a career, you probably should." (1/4)

I would like to dispel the rumors that my father (Bill Savino) coined the term “Bills Mafia” to ensure that people who Google “Bill S Mafia” don’t come across his connections to the Erie County mob.

The fool takes a dump halfway through grocery shopping. The wise man takes a dump before he even gets his cart.

It's so cool that Blueksy doesn't throttle links. Anyway, pre-order my upcoming EP of space fantasy music.

The discourse around Tyler the Creator is so off to me. There's this notion that he only "matured" as an artist around Flower Boy or Igor... Meanwhile, I feel like his sound was mostly uniquely his own in Cherry Bomb. Having a SINGULAR sound is the definition of "artistically mature" to me.

One genius element of DK Bananza is the way the level designers modulate level DENSITY to vary up the pacing. There’s so much variety from wide, open-air zones you run around to claustrophobic shafts you have to dig through. It’s a very different sort of area pacing compared to Mario games.

transition music in a metroid sitcom

Tony Hawk's Pro Tactics Advance

Try a one-page frontier fantasy game. Be an elf, ride a horse. Why, not partner? Get Gunless Gauchos, PWYW, wherever fine games are got. @willsavino.bsky.social #TTRPG #western #game #gauchos #pwyw

On top of all of the other ills of AI, I'm particularly worried about the arms race to make our robot butlers as obsequious as possible. I just can't imagine we'll find a way to overcome the market forces that encourage transforming these models into yes men.

An opinion or argument predicated on some evolutionary psych theory is exactly as compelling as one predicated on astrology.

Amen break whenever Mario vibrates extremely rapidly while emitting a barrage of "ha", "hoo", and "hmm" soundbites

I have made so much goddamn fantasy music, and I'm begging you to use it in your actual play podcast, your interview show, or your friggin' TikTok skits.

RPG peeps! Podcasters! YouTubers! Twitch streamers! Want 300 pieces of dope fantasy music to play in your content? Grab 16 hours of Borough Bound music to use in your tabletop media. Score entire campaigns, or just throw it on while you chat mechanics and industry news.

My most frequent mixing error is having the gain WAY too high on a crash cymbal. I'm choosing to consider that evidence of my joie de vivre and flair for the dramatic, and not an obvious shortcoming of my production skills.

I got my first fake ID when I was 17 to see Kenny Garrett (jazz tenor) play at a 21-and-up club. Went alone. Bouncer recognized me and let me in without checking my ID cause I’d been playing at that club since I was 13. I was so pissed.

Explore—and transform—a world beyond death. Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying is a darkly fresh take on OSR fantasy and offers brutal combat. Don’t miss out, y’all! stillfleet.com/danse @timespace.place #kickstarter #ttrpg #medieval #horror

Oh no. I came up with the idea for a very long and complex TTRPG that I want to write. I do not have time to write it and no will read it if I do. I’m definitely going to do it anyway.

I wrote about why I made my one-page RPG Gunless Gauchos, why I believe the mechanics work so well, and a pitch for you to schedule a game. Give it a read, or just trust me and download the PDF right now!

I wrote about why I made my one-page RPG Gunless Gauchos, why I believe the mechanics work so well, and a pitch for you to schedule a game. Give it a read, or just trust me and download the PDF right now!

When I lament the future my daughter won’t have, I blame democrat ineptitude at least as much as conservative malice