“Affected Disaffection” is the second track from The General Electorate’s SYNTHETIC BONES album that is actually a re-imagining of a BLEACHED BONES OF TITANS song. Besides turning a glam rock song into a synth pop song, we changed the key, so it’s really a completely new creature. (Then again, I think we changed the key of “Love and the Lack of It” as well.) It’s also the most modern-sounding arrangement. To that end, this playlist extends the synth pop artistry to include se

The General Electorate’s SYNTHETIC BONES album is an homage to 80s synth pop, but it isn’t until track 3, “Love and the Lack of It,” that the synth moves into the forefront of the arrangements (at which point it mostly stays there for the rest of the album). LATLOI is also the first of two tracks on this album that are remakes of songs that originally appeared on The Random Hubiak Band’s BLEACHED BONES OF TITANS album from 2015. Structurally, it’s the most complex song of the

I wrote this song in March of 2016, but with a sneaking suspicion that a lot of very ill-informed (at best) citizens were going to elect a reality-TV star to the highest level of power in this country, because I saw how willing people were to scapegoat the innocent in order to feel better about themselves and to overlook blatant misinformation coupled with misogyny, racism, and cruelty because it served their needs (or in some instances matched their own character). I had Dav

It’s tough when you’re an independent songwriter and recording artist. There’s no label to back you financially. You have to manage your own mailing lists and fan outreach. You have to book your own gigs. You don’t have a Pepsi or Coke endorsement paying for the use of your likeness or your recording to generate a revenue stream in the absence of a robust market for album or singles sales. One of the few avenues of recourse we have is to show up on playlists on such platforms