“Goodbye at the End of the World” Process Blog

The music video for “Goodbye at the End of the World” was a pretty major undertaking for me. It is a four-plus minute, computer animated music video about an alien invasion and a couple whose relationship is on the rocks, but who try to save the world. It was written, designed, animated, and rendered by […]

Valentine’s Playlists…For However You Feel About Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is one of those rare greeting card holidays that actually engender feelings in people. If you’re lucky in love, Valentine’s Day can be a lot of fun. I’m not above admitting it. So if you’re feeling Valentine’s Day this year, I put together a Sci-Fi Romance playlist for you: spotify:user:vkotrla:playlist:6CT7ezPBkjHgOQmnO2xy0b However. (There’s usually […]

Dust Among the Stars – CD Release Show

The time is finally at hand! The band will be performing our CD Release show (yeah, we’re still making actual CDs) on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at the Pig N Whistle in Hollywood. Three days in advance of the album dropping, you can get a copy and help us celebrate what’s been quite the long […]

Pre-Order Links

If you’re looking to pre-order our new album, Dust Among the Stars, here’s a handy-dandy list of your easiest options. All pre-orders receive an immediate download of the first single, “If I Fell.” If you want the physical CD with the digipak in addition to the digital download, your only pre-order option is through the Sci-Fi […]

Throwback Thursday: I’d trade my mother for a Whopper

About fifteen years ago, I was in Austin playing drums in what you might call a progressive metal band called De Profundis, and as a lark, we wrote a punk song. Even played it live once. I know the Sci-Fi Romance catalogue isn’t exactly full o’ yuks (although Bride of Frankenstein, 1935 makes me smile), […]

Announcing: “Dust Among the Stars” by Sci-Fi Romance

Big news. A lot of you know we’ve been working on new music, and I’m thrilled to be able to officially announce our third album and its release date. The album is called “Dust Among the Stars,” and it will be available January 26th, 2016, with pre-orders starting tomorrow available now at Amazon and rolling out […]

New Year, New Record

As I’ve discussed in previous posts, Sci-Fi Romance’s third album has been written for a while now, but life has prevented it from being recorded…until now! Right before Christmas, we went into the studio for three days and broke ground on the new record. We got six songs in the can, and have a few more […]

Sci-Fi Romance Holiday Songs on iTunes

Just a heads-up as we plow merrily into the holiday season (it’s raining in Los Angeles, so it must be December…), our various holiday songs we’ve done over the lat couple of years are all available on iTunes, or from our Bandcamp store. Cheers! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Oe8Z1cR22A] iTunes [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Z-pYMDB0g] iTunes [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCl1N8Ljes4] iTunes

Why Folk Pop Made Me Sad

I think the strange folk pop revival we recently experienced, with its attendant explosion of bowler hats and banjos, is finally a cloud of dust on the far horizon. Mumford and Sons has gone away, the Lumineers still just have the one record (which they apparently have re-released a couple times), Edward Sharpe and the […]

October EP Now Available

Download the EP for free right here. After a drought between albums, it’s incredibly gratifying to be able to put out a new EP today and release it as a free download. Two weeks ago, I didn’t even have the idea for this project, and I love that it now exists and is out there […]