slayshTank: The Wakesurf, Wakeskate, Skateboard, Music and Video Coalition

Haunting keys, like the kind you find as the leaves curl in the wind around the lamp post of a cobble stone street of a January day, in the corner of your mind from the movie you can’t seem to … Continue reading →

If you have every felt like a king snake slithering through the stale green moss stuck to the top of the swamp and the swarming insects swarming to the blood pumping from your heart and the dripping wet sticky heat … Continue reading →

All this Phantogram talk has me in the bouncing kind mood and who better to strut around the house with than the king of strut and the Stones? This song pops for a number or reasons. 1. Ronnie Wood’s bass … Continue reading →

One of the best things I ever heard, “It’s very funny to be a frog.” On a Friday evening on the Four Seasons lawn breathing in the breeze, talking about rsvp’s, the lines, the two weeks in March, the interactive, … Continue reading →

A butterfly gave me this song, a butterfly with a sheen auburn sliver running up her spine, and the cote d’azur shining the body of her wings, and framed with the color of knight at her edges, and as I … Continue reading →

If you want to know exactly where the term “killin it” came from, I do believe that I have found the origin. Mr. Star Time straight up murders it! 1. Sick Jumpsuit? Check 2. Mustache? Check 3. Bell Bottoms? Check … Continue reading →

pouring through the websites, tapping the keys to the keyboard and I can’t find what I am looking for, all the music in the world at my fingertips but nothing to inspire, my back is twitching and my eyes are … Continue reading →

Frenetic energy coming from you to me, my thoughts wrestle with what to write next, perplexed, all of the excitement bottle up and ready, ready for what, engrossed in the spree of notes, and bangs and clangs and driving guitar … Continue reading →

Drip drip the drain pipes click as the cat’s wander to catch a lick and the earth moves a little slower and I react a little slower and the gray stacks on top of the smoke and the silver twists … Continue reading →

With the remaster of The Stones Some Girls, I thought I would play a cut from the album with that Stones country twist and Bakersfield slide and all that Gram Parson kicked attitude and spit and country road wonder that … Continue reading →

Waking up to a thick layer of persisting gray skies with the life of a wax museum and the expanse of God’s vision, my thoughts turned to Led Zeppelin’s Led Zepellin III. As much of the album was conceived and … Continue reading →

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire? Egg nog and a shot of grandpas wild turkey? Sounds like you are off to a nice start, but if you are looking to add a little street cred to your holiday party and … Continue reading →

As you stand at Avenue G at Greenpoint the buckle of train tracks come to a Manhattan rattle, a squeal, and an exhausted tired hiss, doors crack pop open and a mammoth grey elephant ducks her head and wiggles out … Continue reading →

In the same vein as The Beatles Taxman throwing stones at the British Labour movement and their taxes, a bored and laissez faire dream and complaint which makes me think of The Stones lyric “The sunshine bores the daylights out … Continue reading →

As cloudy dark skies curl around the last days of November and the books come off the shelves and you dig up ma’s recipe for chili, feeling like Halloween was yesterday and Thanksgiving was a deep breath and Christmas will … Continue reading →

Maybe it’s the red hair, maybe it’s the soaring voice, or maybe just maybe it has to do with all that rhythm, but something about the new Florence and the Machine track Lover to Lover reminds me of Annie Lennox … Continue reading →

The same rowdy crowd that was here last night is back again! Ohio blues rockers The Black Keys are up again with their latest single off of the upcoming album “El Camino.” A powered mash of frenetic hi hats and … Continue reading →

On a day when the weather felt like there was no weather, like the perfect room, or Steve McQueen’s still water effortlessness flowing through a sea of people or a 1971 Mick Jagger scarf, Neil creates an effortless flow of … Continue reading →

With an early beat that drops like Spoon’s I Turn My Camera On and carries on through the track with the same pop and confidence, a tickle of the keys that reminds us all that this whole thing is supposed … Continue reading →

When you wake up on a Sunday morning with a beautiful woman by your side, wind through an Austin Sunday morning, enjoy brunch with those pretty blue eyes and a warm cup of joe, meander through the hills with your … Continue reading →

With a smoky coal train voice, cracklin like dusty vinyl, Paige Wood is the blonde version of Alison Mosshart, without all the wrecked black leather, but all of the sensual rolling around on stage making love to a Marshall stack … Continue reading →

In between the 5 o’clock hour and the hours that the streets start crawl and the horns honk and the wolves howl is the beat of the stars. This song reminds me of the deep breath of a Friday after … Continue reading →

“Fall is here, hear the yell” As cooler winds sweep across the face of our capital city, today is the first day that Fall actually feels like it is here. It’s nice to hear Jackie boy sing about the simple … Continue reading →

If you have ever wound around and ducked through some neighborhood corners and whizzed past mail boxes looking for the street address that x marks the spot and rub the curb and unbuckle and wonder if it is the right … Continue reading →

As Monday winds down, and the city lights go up, and the window lights go down, the kids to bed, the calm comes over the city, comes over the living room, comes over your mind and body, and your bare … Continue reading →

The simple bending guitar squeal and reduced distant vocals curl through the communion of the midnight saint between candles and spray paint under the writhing sweating living and the medicated dead, those in heaven, those in hell, the difference no … Continue reading →

Our friend and Music contributor Ryan Cox of A Circus Mind has started a new project in conjunction with Kickstarter…

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Have you ever turned a doorknob ever so slowly that you see how long you can make the door hinges creak and lose yourself in the slow notch after notch anticipating the darkness, relishing the excitement, holding on to the … Continue reading →

Driving through the highway beaches, cutting past the expanse of concrete stacked on top of concrete over dirt and sand that will soon be concrete over staggered bricks that question when they will become concrete, Major Tom, silent, contemplative, excited, … Continue reading →

September was one of those months. Transition from summer to fall. Transition of the angle of the sun to the earth from the earth to my eyes from my eyes to my mind. Transition from silence back to the written … Continue reading →