Back after a long hiatus … plus, musings on the lack of live music in a life under quarantine

It's been awhile since I've posted anything for this blog. I've been sort of preoccupied with all types of personal and work-related things, which up until a month-and-a-half ago, seemed to be sorting themselves out. Then the quarantine happened, and life suddenly changed in unexpected ways for the foreseeable and indefinite future. Barring all the …

Drab Majesty @ the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on 12.06.19

Drab Majesty perform at the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on 12.06.19.
I've realized I probably shouldn't over-promise, when it comes to these posts. Whenever I say I'm going to be upping the output, I end up vanishing in the ether of otherworld busy-ness. And when I choose to take a break, I can't seem to not post. Anyway, I wanted to get that off my conscious, …

Drab Majesty’s “39 by Design”

Drab Majesty's 2017 album "The Demonstration," featuring the single "39 by Design."
Here's another track that I heard in between sets at last Sunday's Clan of Xymox show at the Echoplex.  So-Cal based Drab Majesty's been gaining ground around the L.A. coldwave club circuit for the last few years.  Primarily the project of Deb Demure, an alter-ego invented by artist Andrew Clinco, with support from keyboardist Mona …