Set, Setting, Tuneage: Greentea Peng: MAN MADE

Set, Setting, Tuneage seeks to share the experience of listening to music in our lives rather than the thinking of music in our minds. (T + 0:00) Greentea Peng: MAN MADEAudial61:00 I wasn’t going to get outside Sunday. It was 97 degrees and rising, that natural Rocky Mountain smog had settled nicely and smoke from… Continue reading Set, Setting, Tuneage: Greentea Peng: MAN MADE

Moonlighting: James Bookert

Moonlighting is a column where I talk with musicians, guides and others within the cultures of music and outdoor adventures about their passions and pursuits outside of what they are known for. I wonder how many skaters count Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael as their inspiration?  Austin, Texas musician James Bookert certainly can. Catching the… Continue reading Moonlighting: James Bookert

Q&A: King Dream

A black hole is a region of spacetime whose weight is so massive and dense that particles of matter cannot escape its gravitational pull, not even light particles. It grows in density as it absorbs passing particles, planets and celestial systems, all of it condensing into a single point known as singularity. Quantum mechanics and… Continue reading Q&A: King Dream

Artist’s Palette: Tanner Barkin

Artist's Palette is a column that connects with the artists, designers and creative innovators in the music and outdoor worlds who drive the visual art we connect with. I love a good workshop and walking into graphic designer Tanner Barkin’s shop a couple weeks ago was as good as walking into any candy shop for… Continue reading Artist’s Palette: Tanner Barkin

Moonlighting: Jeffrey Silverstein

Moonlighting is a column where I talk with musicians, guides and others within the cultures of music and outdoor adventures about their passions and pursuits outside of what they are known for. Guitarist and songwriter Jeffrey Silverstein has got a good gig going for himself. The Portland-based artist creates music that exists at the fluid… Continue reading Moonlighting: Jeffrey Silverstein

Set, Setting, Tuneage: Joe Kaplow: Sending Money and Stems

Set, Setting, Tuneage seeks to share the experience of listening to music in our lives rather than the thinking of music in our minds. (T + 0:00)Joe Kaplow: Sending Money and StemsAudial39:00 The day had been mostly dry, a small sprinkle here and there. Clouds milled around but never blocked the sun for that long.… Continue reading Set, Setting, Tuneage: Joe Kaplow: Sending Money and Stems

Q&A: Jade Brodie

Northern Nevada is not known for producing country songwriters.  The desolate high desert region is more known as a rendezvous with solitude for hunters, ranchers, wanderers and people who don’t want to be bothered by society. Mountains bound up from the dust in cragged ridgebacks, the only thing scraping the sky besides vultures. Ranching fences… Continue reading Q&A: Jade Brodie

Q&A: Chuck McKeever

It was New Year’s 2013 in the Marshall Islands and the capital city of Majuro was a gallant party, like a lone sequin glittering adrift in the black of the Pacific Ocean. My Christmas break from teaching ESL courses on the outer Atoll of Wotje was coming to an end and the night was mine… Continue reading Q&A: Chuck McKeever