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

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 →

Warbling on into the room like a dinner table plate spinning in slow motion, balancing seemingly in place until it dips around again and makes that spinning twisting plate noise, down until the rattle of stillness is complete and calm … Continue reading →

If you have ever stood at the edge of the cliffs on Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach San Diego watching the waves curl, the sun rest back in it’s easy chair of the horizon with boats and surfers bobbing in … Continue reading →

When I roll through South Austin neighborhoods with my all black tint, while I roll through South Austin feeling like God’s perfect gift, It’s not only the neighborhood I roll but the city streets that I own, I’m twisted black … Continue reading →

Walking down the stairs of my place, I squint at the evening sun crawling through twisting oak trees and I am greeted by the warm Sunday summer air mashed against my face. I slide comfortably into place behind the wheel … Continue reading →

Well hello Mr. Festival! It’s good to have you playing in my back yard again. I am happy that the grass looks all green. I am happy that the weather has dropped back down to a manageable cool 99. And … Continue reading →

Like walking across the cold night tile floor, feeling the crease between tiles smooth over the ridge of your foot, inching your big toe carefully forward, careful to guide you through the dark, careful to guide you past the creaks … Continue reading →

In the middle of that exhausted sweaty arched summer brow, the work of the summer day rolls past the squint of your twinkling summer eye, and balances on it’s toes to take a glance at your red rose cheek and … Continue reading →

Surrounded by all these tangled black and white wires, charges of pointless electricity going from me to you, you to me, charges of energy I can’t see but that control the world around me, screens, monitors, screens of monitors big … Continue reading →

In the eleventh semitone of the Western chromatic scale I was created through the vibrating tubes in columns of air Under the confessions of the Flushing professor’s lessons A school boy crush brushed by the dust of Serchlite sessions Etched … Continue reading →

All of this heat has me feeling primal and coarse and tender and wondering when will my blood begin to boil and if my skin will tremble and pop and cook while my blue veins begin their summer rage and … Continue reading →

Only a few months ago I heard the same synthesizer bounce in Yacht’s Shangri La but instead of spreading the good news of the perfectly clean neat tucked pristine smiling dancing utopian world, Gardens and Villa belt in an eery … Continue reading →

This is one of those self explanatory songs that one should not explain, try to explain, want to explain, or even think about wanting to try to explain. This is a song you should feel, feel it in your bones … Continue reading →

Well it feels like the sun has never been to sleep this summer, always running on high like a marathoner practicing in the desert for eighy nine days in a row and by the time you find yourself at the … Continue reading →