Until I spread my wings at seventeen and landed in CO Springs from my small town in Napa with the help of some mentors, my music diet was limited and narrow. Through my teens, I ingested mostly Christian Contemporary Music (CCM), adjacent rock bands like Relient K and Mutemath, and main stream singer/songwriters like John Mayer and Jack Johnson. Sprinkle in some Nirvana, Chili Peppers, Sublime, Modest Mouse, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Coldplay, and The Beatles. I grew up with mainstream...

Like every single one of you, I have a life to live. Currently, I am putting many hours and lots of effort into what I hope will be a somewhat meaningful album release. Many of you have families, demanding jobs, personal goals and difficult situations to work through. We are all living our own lives but feeling the weight of an irresponsible, erratic, and unpredictable administration who has launched an attack that feels, at best, majorly out of step with their prior messaging around "forever...

film photograph courtesy of Zachary Hurlburt I spent the entirety of my adolescence in the loving arms of a pentecostal Christian church on a hill on the outskirts of Napa. It is still there. A living, breathing organism. It’s aptly called Hillside Christian Center. When I was probably ten or eleven years old, my mother drove me there against my will and endured my kicking and screaming. We were trying a new church, and though I was not thrilled with our previous one, I was having a very hard...