The Get Up Kids STWHA 25th Anniversary at Danforth Music Hall

Last night our favourite Kansas midweast emo band descended upon the Danforth Music Hall to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Something to Write Home About – we know because we were there! Honestly getting to concerts these days is a battle, so that’s no small feat. I only picked up my ticket about a week ago, feeling apathetic and annoyed with how things were going … Continue reading The Get Up Kids STWHA 25th Anniversary at Danforth Music Hall

Crooked ForestOctober 6, 2024February 8, 2025Leave a comment

Books, News

Matt Pryor is releasing a Memoir

I love learning about my favourite bands and hearing stories about their lives and career, but I’m really someone that’s only really into it if it’s written by the artist themself. Enter Matt Pyror of The Get Up Kids and The New Amsterdams and his recently announced Red Letter Days. No, it’s not a rehashed boring recreation of the album of very similar name for … Continue reading Matt Pryor is releasing a Memoir

Crooked ForestJanuary 9, 2024January 10, 2024Leave a comment

Music

New Music Release: For My Ghost – American Goner

American Goner recently put out their first full-length record. AG says he wrote most of the album in just about a weeks span a month after a difficult breakup. Speaking about the album on Twitter on release day, he said, “After staying for 2 years longer than i should have, putting my career on hold, ditching people i loved and cares about and dealing with … Continue reading New Music Release: For My Ghost – American Goner

Crooked ForestJuly 13, 2023Leave a comment

Music

Stigmata Kiss/Ghost Mile Split Release

Wow, so this is embarrassing. Sometime last year I was invited to collaborate on some songs and then a little while after that Dark Entry Records decided to put those songs out as part of a split EP. The result is this Stigmata Kiss/Ghost Mile EP available only on Bandcamp. I contributed vocals/lyrics for Ghost Mile. When I was first handed the tracks, the appeal … Continue reading Stigmata Kiss/Ghost Mile Split Release

Crooked ForestApril 15, 2023Leave a comment

Jaimee Eat World, Lyrics

Jaimee Eat World Release: In The Same Room

We’re taking some risks this year with our upcoming cover song releases starting with an ominous and somewhat creepy “In The Same Room” that had us experimenting with synth pads, weird string instruments and peculiar vocal effects. I’m really not a keys player (I literally have to google chord shapes every time I’m about to try something on these recordings) but I have to say … Continue reading Jaimee Eat World Release: In The Same Room

Crooked ForestJanuary 11, 2023July 13, 2023Leave a comment

Cover Songs, Jaimee Eat World

Static Unveiled: S1E2 – The Middle

Last week re reintroduced ourselves to you in our Introduction episode, and this week we’re getting straight to the covers with Episode 2: The Middle. In this week’s episode you get to hear our brand new Season 1 podcast introduction music and then we get into things like the power of music videos, the pop-punk invasion of Canada and learning guitar solos, before we showcase … Continue reading Static Unveiled: S1E2 – The Middle

Crooked ForestOctober 19, 2022Leave a comment

Jaimee Eat World, Mental Health

Jaimee Eat World Docu-Short Release: It’s Only Therapy

If you’re following the Jaimee Eat World instagram page then you already know that earlier today we dropped the next instalment of our ongoing documentary that’ll follow the entire recreation of the Jimmy Eat World catalogue. If you haven’t caught it it, check it out now on YouTube, but then make sure you give the Instagram page a follow so that you see the next … Continue reading Jaimee Eat World Docu-Short Release: It’s Only Therapy

Crooked ForestOctober 15, 2022Leave a comment

Jaimee Eat World

Jaimee Eat World Release: Splat Out Of Luck

Back today with another selection off of 1994… this time, it’s “Splat Out Of Luck”. Listen to Jimmy Eat World’s Original Recording Now, check out mine: As I mentioned during the livestreams, 1994 is the record I’m most unfamiliar with to this day, so I always get a little weird when I start to think about covering something of it. I know people always tout … Continue reading Jaimee Eat World Release: Splat Out Of Luck

Crooked ForestMay 18, 2022Leave a comment

Blog, Crooked Forest, Music

The Making of The Clearing: Part 1

When I first set out to track A Quiet Place To Scream, I did so in a way that I always intended to go back and re-track things and show as much of the process as possible. I had three goals in mind when I did this: see how far I could get without spending hardly any money, show newcomer songwriters/rock producers some of the … Continue reading The Making of The Clearing: Part 1

Crooked ForestFebruary 19, 2022Leave a comment

Lyrics, The Vault

Infinitive

Re-introducing for the first time since about 2009, today I’m releasing the first demo recording as part of my revisiting the first songs I ever wrote with my first band A Big Dumb Rocketship. To kick things off we have “Infinitive”. When I first approached a kid in my high school named Mike who had been drumming with the only other pop-punk band in our … Continue reading Infinitive

Crooked ForestJanuary 24, 2022Leave a comment

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