Sooo. Another trip around, eh? Sold Kingdom has had quite a year. In addition to a few lab experiments per usual, I put out an LP that at one point I had decided to shelve indefinitely (before I remembered that my art is a fundamental part of how I fight back). I finally played a... Continue Reading →
BIG NEWS! I’m honored as hell to be one of the featured “cryptids” in Cville’s takeover of HarriSYNTHburg at Sage Bird Cider Works in January! I’ve long admired the nostalgic 8-bit crunch, searing guitar shredding, and hardworking DIY ethos of the event’s fearless leader, Ivan Christo, who, outside of his synth project Jaguardini, is a... Continue Reading →
Last Saturday I returned to Book Club, C’ville’s music-venue-in-an-afterhours-bookstore, opening for some casually virtuosic student shoegazers and some peddlers of self-described “slutty goth-punk”. All of whom were very young and very talented. To be very honest, for the majority of the day preceding the show, I was wrestling with some kind of nondescript malaise and... Continue Reading →
Playing WTJU’s Third Rail to celebrate the release of my new album, Distraction Portraiture (see homepage for more info), was a privilege and a pleasure! Here is photographic proof. (Credit: Zoe Krylova) Here was the little display I made specially for the show, with the QR code leading to the new album on Bandcamp (plus... Continue Reading →
Folks, I am excited to announce that my third full-length album, Distraction Portraiture, will be out in a week! It was conceived of three or four years ago, and most of the writing was done last year. Here’s the short-form album teaser trailer Here's me talking about the concept Here's some coverage of the artist... Continue Reading →
Fortunately the silence in the SK camp this year has been for doing rather than ruminating, but it's past time for an update. Being WTJU Charlottesville's DJ Malpaso, host of Limerence Addiction, quickly turned into a robust (but, fortunately, intuitive) commitment. After a few months sharing my wee-hours time slot with a compatible alternate, said... Continue Reading →
Five years ago, when I was first thinking about ending my musical hiatus but hadn’t yet figured out how to approach writing songs again, I learned to play a handful of covers that felt right at the time. Most of them fell by the wayside once I started making my “comeback” album, but the one... Continue Reading →
I like to put vids out on long weekends. I was thinking about Cat Power today, so I did something that has been a long time coming (though till today I didn’t know quite how to go about it) and that has a ton of significance to me. It’s a cobbling together of “The Greatest”... Continue Reading →
The Sold Kingdom 