It's XMas day. It's been five months since my last post and I have a couple updates to make.

My band, Undercover Rabbis (which you can find at www.myspace.com/undercoverrabbis) played a successful show (our second to date) and attempted to record in a slave graveyard. Unfortunately, the mixing/recording process was foiled by something and only a fourth of the mics picked up. Anyways, it was still quite the (cold) experience.In other updates,

I've seen numerous bands - The Flaming Lips, The Disco Biscuits, Pelican, and The Mars Volta - all of which were excellent shows.

I've made my top ten album list of 2009

10. Tentacles - Crystal Antlers

9. Beacons of Starship - Tortoise

8. Manners - Passion Pit

7. Octohedron - The Mars Volta

6. Geneva - Russian Circles

5. Merriwether Post Pavillion - Animal Collective

4. Ephemeral - Pelican

3. Other Truths - Do Make Say Think

2. Embryonic - The Flaming Lips

1. Monoliths and Dimensions - Sunn O))

I'm already looking into next year's releases with one of my favorite bands Thee Silver Mt. Zion set to release their next full-length "Kollaps Tradicional." Here's the first song they've released on their website www.tra-la-la.com