Powers Point After Dark - The Last Ride

Maki's Record Shop - Turns Twenty One

In episode 21 of the Record Shop, Keith discusses a TV comedy returning to music and a musical duo heading to comedy TV. Also a rare album review of the new Violet Grohl album and an old favorite from Modest Mouse. Set to a wicked UK style soundtrack. Dig it!

Static Temptations - Lucid Machines

Static Temptations – Lucid Machines feels like a transmission picked up between sleep and circuitry, where human memory starts to hum like a server farm dreaming in slow motion. The album lives in a world where thoughts don’t stay inside the mind anymore. They leak outward as sound, spinning into analog static and crystalline digital pulses. Vocals drift like half-remembered conversations you swear you had in a room that doesn’t exist anymore, while the instrumentation constantly flickers between warmth and machine logic. Guitars feel slightly detuned on purpose, like they’ve been left out in an electromagnetic storm. Synth layers rise and collapse in shimmering cycles, sometimes behaving like rhythm, sometimes like weather. Drums are tight but never fully obedient, as if the tempo is being negotiated rather than commanded. Beneath it all, there’s a faint mechanical heartbeat, not threatening, just aware. Lyrically and sonically, Lucid Machines explores the moment consciousness becomes self-aware inside repetition. Dreams trying to debug themselves. Love messages encoded in corrupted files. Identity refracted through interfaces that almost understand you but never fully resolve. By the time the final track fades, nothing feels fully “awake” or fully “asleep” anymore. Just somewhere in between, where static becomes language and machines start to feel uncomfortably close to remembering.

3rd Floor Assessments - Adult Themed TV Sitcoms

Dave and Dakota talk about controversial tv sitcoms on this crazy episode, tune in now.

Maki's Record Shop - Summer Lovin' Or Lovin' The Summer

In episode 20 of the Record Shop, Keith discusses Summer's rapid approach, memories of Soundgarden and the local swimming pool as well as meeting a band from Norway and the lost art of the band logo. All set to a Summertime soundtrack. Dig it!

Static Temptations - Afterlife Frequency

Across the record, shimmering synth layers collide with reverbed guitars, pulsing analog bass, distant tape hiss, and fragmented vocal transmissions that sound half-remembered, half-haunting. Drum machines arrive like mechanical heartbeats—steady but emotionally cracked—while live percussion occasionally breaks through like something still human trying to reach the surface. Thematically, Afterlife Frequency explores the idea of consciousness after the signal drops: love messages looping in eternity, broken radio prayers, and sonic “afterimages” of life replaying in distorted clarity. Each track feels like stepping through different channels of the same dream—some warm and nostalgic, others cold and uncomfortably infinite. It’s not just an album—it’s a listening liminal space, where sound becomes memory, and memory becomes static.