The Bottle of Beef Blog

My music is published as individual "albums," each assembled according to a specific concept (some obvious, some not). As i have a...

In my last post i listed all of the gear i frequently use. This time, i'm going to focus on my basic setup and describe some of the ways...

What's hiding down in my studio? At some point I'll try to describe how I use it all, but for now here's a quick rundown: Elec...

Over the last few years I have released an enormous amount of sonic vomit onto the internet. I have decided to use http://paultompkins.bandc...

2016 has been the year of pointlessness. Political, fiscal, environmental, social, interstellar pointlessness. Coincidentally, it has been m...

Not to get bogged down in the philosophical questions of the nature or origins of art, but to think about our interraction with it. That is,...

I recently told a joke on my personal facebook page about my deep respect for music as an art form, and how my determination to understand a...