Dan Boeckner

Ditchfield Plus

A few months ago I spent a week in Ditchfield UK producing a friends album. We stayed in an ancient blacksmiths cottage, surrounded by layers and layers of Historical Sediment. Old beams, the stone...

TURF CLUB LIVE ALONE AND COLD

Hello hello from the frozen shore of Lake Eerie in the pre-holiday deep freeze. It's soup day. I'm making soup. Today it's Borscht. The yard is blanketed w snow and three different species of squir...

Back From UK

I cracked the code on having a nice time in Britain. The trick is simple: stay in a small town in the countryside, spend some time outside and have a fire every night. Easy. Also helps if you're ma...

AMA TIME

Hello and Greetings Friends!

Asked and Answered plus some commentary on NYC elections and what I'm cooking up next year.

🎃👻🎃✌️ Halloween Is All Month Long

DB

SOUND KAPITAL AMA

Ask me anything in the comments! Video up in a few days 🖤

SOUND KAPITAL: NO FEELING

Here it is gang, the last song on the album, last notes the band would record. Discussed: breakin up, the limits of touring as a sustainable lifestyle, NOISE, regrets/no regrets.

At the end I...

Summer Of The Pig

Years of Lard, Years of Lead Paint, BurgerReich, Years of Whatever continue apace. As I write this there are two confirmed ex-Iraq war vet shootings in the space of 24 hours. One in North Carolina ...

SOUND KAPITAL: CHEAP MUSIC

The most "ROCK" song on the album, an ode to doing it low cost. Discussed: thee Olde Jamme Space, rocking, FM drum crunch, the endless workflow labyrinth of DAWs , the limits of the human voice and...

Atlas Systemic: The 9/10 Tapes

Found something on the internet...

https://archive.org/details/atlas-systematic-warfield-91001<...

CLE EP 1

In between writing songs I've been working a lot on NOISE and SOUND COLLAGE for soundtracks lately. It's been nice to flip from wailing on the guitar and howling to quieter, meditative work. I've b...

SOUND KAPITAL: REPATRIATED

The latest episode of our ongoing series on Sound Kapital. Discussed: ghost cities, EBM basslines, the 909, media bias, factory work, alternate futures. There's some light barking due to the arriv...

Sound Kapital Returns

Hey folks! After a wedding in rural Quebec and a terrible sinus head cold thing I’ll be back tomorrow with more Sound Kapital breakdown and a little EP of dark ambient NOISE to usher in Fall aka ...

SOUND KAPITAL: WHAT ABOUT US

Have and Have Nots, class consciousness in Mile End 02-09, weird reverbs, making one thing out of two things, real estate in Cowichan Lake, The Groke

Intro clip is from a govt film about the ...

Back From The Lake

If you follow me on Instagram, you might know that I've been at the Lake. A Great Lake. Lake Michigan. 10/10 Lake, I had no idea you could get an Ocean Experience this far inland. Did I get horribl...

Sound Kapital: Audio Only

Hello! Someone (Derek) suggested I upload audio of all the SK episodes so...I did it! Audio is attached to each ep as an attachment! XO DB

SOUND KAPITAL: Serve The People

Here it is...the longest one yet. Topics discussed: the PLA, risky touring, the limits of change, civil war, bass, dancehall, friendship.

Hope everyone is doing well. I'm back up and running ...

Searching For You

More demos from the new one. Shaping up to be a spooky guitar album.

Landed In Cleveland

Made it. Moved in. I’m gonna take a few days to set up and then it’s back to the video series. New song tomorrow. Tim, I owe you a reply! Hope everyone’s doing good. Can’t wait to wail on g...

SOUND KAPITAL: MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE

It's HOT. My brain is COOKED. Here's a rambling one about Memory and Memories.

Discussed: Stephen King, chillwave, Kids (MGMT), Herrenvolk 50s, the Tyranny of the Boomer Memory Machine, BASS,...

SOUND KAPITAL: BURY ME STANDING

Part 5 of our ongoing series. Discussed: Cleveland, pulse width modulation, Pizza Hut in Bucharest, A Brief History of Romania, rich peoples children don't want to work anymore, "the Lusty Gypsy", ...

SOUND KAPITAL: DAMAGE

Part 4 of the ongoing series. The first bit covers how we wrote and recorded the song, the second (LONG) part goes into American Force Projection, imperialism, "red tagging" and How To Wreck A Coun...

SOUND KAPITAL: WHEN I GET BACK

Song number one! Sidechaining, jet lag, Ubisoft, I realize I was depressed when I wrote this song. *additional music: Flowers of Evil Sound

Song number one! Sidechaining, jet lag, Ubisoft, I ...

SOUND KAPITAL: GEAR

Here it is. 40 minutes on GEAR (and the recording process). Don't say you weren't warned! Bonus soundtrack of every single demo preset on th

Here it is. 40 minutes on GEAR (and the recording ...

SOUND KAPITAL INTRO

Here we go! Episode 1 of 10 is up. It's long! Episode 2 (GEAR) will be up on Monday. Hope everyone is having a nice weekend...

Video Series 1

Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of Wolf Parade's EXPO 86. Maria C (who some of you know), encouraged me to do a few videos breaking down a handful of songs on the album. I've been gunshy about f...

Jaguar Demo

Hello friends! Here's an inside look on some writing I've been doing for the next solo album. It seems like I'm making a spooky ROCK album. I don't really plan these things, they just sort of happ...

ROCK THE MACHINE

Here's a rough mix of a song I recorded with Sam in advance of the upcoming Irish tour. I love this song...one of my favorite contemporary "folk" tunes...originally written and recorded by Lisa O'N...

Basement Mindset

Testing out the new Columbus Basement Studio HQ with a new version of a song I've been working on for a while. Bass, drums (courtesy Sam), guitar. Back 2 Basics.

Hope everyone is doing good....

Olde Christmas

þis kyng lay at camylot vpon kryst masse

with mony luflych lorde ledez of þe best

rekenly of þe rounde table alle þo rich breþer

with rych reuel ory3t and rechles merþes

Halloween Spooktacular MEGA MIX 2

GREETINGS GHOULS. For your consideration: a bubbling cauldron of GRAVEST hits and sinister jams for this blessed Halloween. Tracklist posting tomorrow...enjoy.......

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