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What I’ve Been Listening To (1.24.21)
Welcome to my weekly column “What I’ve Been Listening To,” where I publish a post every Sunday with my 5×5 collage of most-listened releases (which is sourced by my Last.fm account and made into a collage via this site). I do not intend these to be lengthy write-ups, but I like to include notes on my …
Development & Compromise – Album Credits, Liner Notes, and Lyrics
Click here to stream or purchase the album. Credits: Music & lyrics written by Chase Tremaine (https://chasetremaine.com) Produced, engineered, and mixed by Sean Power at the Hilson Studio (http://www.thehilsonstudio.com) Mastered by Audio Science Mastering (https://www.audiosciencemastering.com) Artwork created by Chase Tremaine and Lauren Crownover (https://www.crownovercreative.com) (Original photography provided by Hudson Hintze and Thusitha Dananjaya) Vocals (tracks …
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Friday Awards (January 15, 2021)
Every Friday, I scour the internet for new music releases. The weekly Friday Awards will highlight my favorite discovery each week, with a special emphasis on artists that are new, new-ish, or new to me. December and January tend to be a slow-down/reset period for the music industry, and I didn’t find any albums from January 1st …
What I’ve Been Listening To (1.17.21)
Welcome to the introductory installment of my “What I’ve Been Listening To” series, where I’ll publish a post every Sunday with my 5×5 collage of most-listened releases (which is sourced by my Last.fm account and made into a collage via this site). I don’t intend these to be lengthy write-ups, but I’ll also include some …
Catching Up From Quarantine
I must apologize to my subscribers. As we approach a full year since my last post, I find myself amazed by how much has changed over the past year. The global pandemic, (amidst all the destruction we’ve seen worldwide that so vastly outweighs little ole me writing about music), threw off all my routines and …
Friday Awards (March 6, 2020)
Every Friday, I scour the internet for new music releases. The weekly Friday Awards will highlight my favorite discovery each week, with a special emphasis on artists that are new, new-ish, or new to me. Theoretically, hardcore and pop-punk are at opposite ends of the punk rock spectrum; hardcore took punk rock in a heavier, metal-oriented direction, …
Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums – Week 7
For the decade of the 2020’s, I plan on listening to approximately one album per week from Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. I will be posting my brief thoughts on each album here. #494 – Oracular Spectacular by MGMT For a publication oft criticized for keeping its nose stuck in the past, …
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Friday Awards (February 28, 2020)
Every Friday, I scour the internet for new music releases. The weekly Friday Awards will highlight my favorite discovery each week, with a special emphasis on artists that are new, new-ish, or new to me. Last week, I promised to give this Friday Award to a non-metal/hardcore album, ending a streak that has been going basically all …
Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums – Week 6
For the decade of the 2020’s, I plan on listening to approximately one album per week from Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. I will be posting my brief thoughts on each album here. #495 – Give It Up by Bonnie Raitt Although I’m not very far into this large list, I’m certainly …
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Friday Awards (February 21, 2020)
Every Friday, I scour the internet for new music releases. The weekly Friday Awards will highlight my favorite discovery each week, with a special emphasis on artists that are new, new-ish, or new to me. This week continues the hilarious streak of almost all of 2020’s Friday Awards going to heavier (metal- or hardcore-related) artists. And the …
Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums – Week 5
For the decade of the 2020’s, I plan on listening to approximately one album per week from Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. I will be posting my brief thoughts on each album here. #496 – Boz Scaggs by Boz Scaggs Mirroring last week’s album, which was the first RS500 entry that …
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Friday Awards (February 14, 2020)
Every Friday, I scour the internet for new music releases. The weekly Friday Awards will highlight my favorite discovery each week, with a special emphasis on artists that are new, new-ish, or new to me. Some weeks, I fail to find an album that really captures me — or I lack the time to search hard enough …
Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums – Week 4
For the decade of the 2020’s, I plan on listening to approximately one album per week from Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. I will be posting my brief thoughts on each album here. #497 – White Blood Cells by The White Stripes We’ve reached the first album on Rolling Stone’s …
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Friday Awards (February 7, 2020)
Every Friday, I scour the internet for new music releases. The weekly Friday Awards will highlight my favorite discovery each week, with a special emphasis on artists that are new, new-ish, or new to me. February 7, 2020 was bound to be dedicated to one album — one of my most anticipated albums of the year: Cycle …
Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums – Week 3
For the decade of the 2020’s, I plan on listening to approximately one album per week from Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. I will be posting my brief thoughts on each album here. #498 – The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses To be completely forthright, one of the main …
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Friday Awards (January 24, 2020)
Every Friday, I scour the internet for new music releases. The weekly Friday Awards will highlight my favorite discovery each week, with a special emphasis on artists that are new, new-ish, or new to me. January 24, 2020 (my 28th birthday) was a pretty solid release day, especially for artists starting with “C”: Caspian, Colony House, and …
Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums – Week 2
For the decade of the 2020’s, I plan on listening to approximately one album per week from Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. I will be posting my brief thoughts on each album here. #499 – Live in Cook County Jail by B.B. King I’ve never been a blues guy. There …
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Friday Awards (January 17, 2020)
Every Friday, I scour the internet for new music releases. The weekly Friday Awards will highlight my favorite discovery each week, with a special emphasis on artists that are new, new-ish, or new to me. This was an interesting release — more interesting for the talk around it than the music itself. The music on Marigold is …
Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums – Week 1
For the decade of the 2020’s, I plan on listening to approximately one album per week from Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. I will be posting my brief thoughts on each album here. #500 – Aquemini by Outkast I’ve potentially heard this album many, many years ago, since one …
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Friday Awards (January 10, 2020)
Every Friday, I scour the internet for new music releases. The weekly Friday Awards will highlight my favorite discovery each week, with a special emphasis on artists that are new, new-ish, or new to me. I will never forget listening to Poppy’s I Disagree for the first time, laughing my way through a strange series of surprises, …
Unfall Bio & Credits
Chase Tremaine will release his debut solo album Unfall on January 24, 2020, following thirteen years spent performing guitar, bass, drums, and background vocals for numerous artists throughout the Dallas and Nashville music scenes, ranging from pop-punk and hardcore to gospel and R&B. The ten songs that comprise Unfall, many of which were entirely written …
Friday Awards (October 11, 2019)
Every Friday, I scour the internet for new music releases. The weekly Friday Awards will highlight my favorite discovery each week, with a special emphasis on artists that are new, new-ish, or new to me. If I’m being honest, I did not want to like FANDOM, the third album from Houston, TX-based neo-pop-punkers Waterparks. It’s profane, it’s …
Nashville Concert Review – IVEY & Borderline Natives (10.9.19)
I honestly don’t go out to bars very often, but of all the times I’ve gone out in Nashville, probably 50% of those trips were to The Crying Wolf. It’s the only bar in town that I visited prior to moving to Nashville — its reputation preceded it. Depending on the night, you might not …
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Friday Awards (October 4, 2019)
Every Friday, I scour the internet for new music releases. The weekly Friday Awards will highlight my favorite discovery each week, with a special emphasis on artists that are new, new-ish, or new to me. This inaugural Friday Award was a toss-up between Bayside’s newest, Interrobang, and DIIV’s Deceiver. While both records are fantastic, hard-hitting …
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