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.

👇 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”

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

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

Although the sun is shining High above

Early EP reviews are in: “rips tbh” “wow - I love it” lnk.to/underthehammer

19 Flashlight Faces fans can’t be wrong lnk.to/underthehammer

19 Flashlight Faces fans can’t be wrong lnk.to/underthehammer

Surely you’re interested in learning why track 2 is flagged as having explicit lyrics lnk.to/underthehammer

Early EP reviews are in: “rips tbh” “wow - I love it” lnk.to/underthehammer

New Flashlight Faces LFG

Our new EP is OUT NOW digitally. lnk.to/underthehammer

The awkwardness of releasing the best music of your life at age 42 when the world has hit an abysmal low point and keeps falling

Four more days til you can stream the whole thing. For now, “Under the Hammer” is up. flashlightfaces.bandcamp.com/album/under-...

Four more days til you can stream the whole thing. For now, “Under the Hammer” is up. flashlightfaces.bandcamp.com/album/under-...

This is the best we can do. If nobody listens, not our fault!

Here’s the beautiful cover artwork of our new EP, designed and handpainted by Jonny Campolo, with a photo I took in London on June 18, 2001. Out this Friday. Listen to the title track here now. flashlightfaces.bandcamp.com

Here’s the beautiful cover artwork of our new EP, designed and handpainted by Jonny Campolo, with a photo I took in London on June 18, 2001. Out this Friday. Listen to the title track here now. flashlightfaces.bandcamp.com

You can listen now to the title track of our new EP, Under the Hammer, out on Friday 9/19: flashlightfaces.bandcamp.com/album/under-...

Master of our EP is in the can, will be available to stream this coming Friday

NIN doing "I'm Afraid of Americans" last night is going down in my personal history books

Preorder here: shop.echobase.com/products/fla...

If your tour stops in Asheville and Nashville but skips Atlanta, you’re on probation

My grandpa was a carpenter who built and renovated houses, and during Thanksgiving 2000 I secluded myself in the office in my grandparents’ farm house and wrote song lyrics on old building inspection forms

Come down, come see who’s knocking, His clothes are worn to thread. He’s come back from the country, Said you two used to break bread. Old friend, are you still digging, And planting in the hills? There was no revolution. I couldn’t find the folks of goodwill. I had to start paying the bills.

Pre-order our EP on vinyl: shop.echobase.com/products/fla...

Pre-order our EP on vinyl: shop.echobase.com/products/fla...

Not afraid to admit that pretty much every social media platform has been of some real use to our band, but TikTok is absolutely hopeless and it is where music goes to die

One week away!

Me in the year 2000

Tearing the lid off the goddamn universe youtu.be/OPiNFnsC4Bs?...

In case you still haven’t made plans for November 7, 2001

Auf amoi hot da Blitz eingschlogn Und olle san glegn im Dreck Und wia's zum beten aufghört habn Da woa da Sandler weg (W. Ambros: Des Sandlers Flucht)

Just then a bolt of lightning Struck the courthouse out of shape And while everybody knelt to pray The drifter did escape

Wasn’t sure whether it made sense to make a 4 minute documentary video that explains our music step by step, but so far this has been a much more effective way of alerting old friends and listeners to a new release than anything else I’ve tried in the past. That and the fact that it’ll be on vinyl.

Picking up the Welsh Connection

My basic approach to spending any amount of time on TikTok to share music is, why would you even try to adapt to a medium where people’s default attentional style makes it impossible to process both lines of a couplet of a song verse, or even an entire guitar riff?

Wasn’t sure whether it made sense to make a 4 minute documentary video that explains our music step by step, but so far this has been a much more effective way of alerting old friends and listeners to a new release than anything else I’ve tried in the past. That and the fact that it’ll be on vinyl.

Please enjoy this “local public access TV channel”-style spotlight on our new EP, shot on location in my hometown of Milwaukee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=peCA...

Please enjoy this “local public access TV channel”-style spotlight on our new EP, shot on location in my hometown of Milwaukee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=peCA...