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

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”

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

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“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” 😔

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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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

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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.

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