Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A warning and a welcome for joyous noise, for those navigating what Beckett called “this bitch of an earth.”

That’s a Knuckle Dustup 

darlinged don’t lack an hour,
tenement tents wettest.

We will shine it more milky ways
when never not given in going.

Rentachoirs, tinny catonine catalysts,
silvery rests–

not even that stars, that hearts,
that critics found under foot,

under blight void Freud
via Jung and the festered uncle.

They licked the real smoke,
not no more the jars of timberwhip,

like them Natives 
in America, O America,

commercials shed smut-filled tears 
as god wipes his ass with thee, 

and kindly good 
thy mother could
from sea to saline sea.

Contemporary Living?

Listen on Tidal. Listen on Spotify.

1. “Do Not Fire! (demo)” – Madvillain, Madlib, MF DOOM
2. “Lady Grinning Soul” – David Bowie
3. “Scorpio” – Kim Wilde
4. “We” – Tayne
5. “Don’t Walk Away” – Tank
6. “Obra Akyedzi” – Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad
7. “City Lights” – The WAEVE
8. “Somewhere” – Lilly Hiatt
9. “Big Eyes” – Cheap Trick
10. “Sweeden” – Cymande
11. “Out of this World (Live)” – Loudon Wainwright III, Rufus Wainwright
12. “Rushing In Waves” – Jim White, Trey Blake
13. “That Dada Strain” – Preservation Brass
14. “MYanx.” – Ambrose Akinmusire
15. “Tormento” – Alix Brown, Louis Fontaine

Stephen McClurg (Episode 473) composes and improvises in Serenity Dagger, The Abdomen, and other projects. Along with session work for mid-Alabama singer/songwriters, he frequently collaborates with musicians across the state adding bass, guitar, and synths to friends’ recordings. He currently writes reviews for Horror DNA and is the substitute low end wrangler for Mobile-based punk rock band Future Hate. You can find out more about his work here.