New EP Announcement: The Rain Becomes a River
Our new EP, featuring five tracks, will release digitally on May 8, 2020. This collection represents a more forceful, loud, and insistent vision for more insistent times. Pre-order now and get an immediate download of “When the Levee Breaks.” [bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=1215400955 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small]
Fun With Word Clouds
As I work on demos for the next album, I’ve been thinking a lot about lyrics, naturally. Then I decided to have a little fun with the lyrics on our releases so far, and make word clouds out of them. Here’s what happens when you plop all 40 Sci-Fi Romance original songs into a word […]
“Fields” Music Video
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy8fIbVTm2M] My folks were both raised in small, rural towns in Texas, but moved to Houston in the 1970s, where I was born. I spent my childhood, then, living in the suburbs and for holidays, summers, different events, shuttling back and forth out to farm and ranchland and towns too small for grocery stores. I […]
Upcoming Shows for May and June
We have three shows coming up as we head into summer. The first two are solo acoustic sets where I’ll be trying out some new things, and the full band performs at the Pig N Whistle in Hollywood again on Saturday, June 18th. Come on out to one of the shows, say hi, and help […]
All the References: Goodbye at the End of the World
We recently gave away a pair of autographed CDs over at the all-purpose geek-themed site Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together to people who correctly identified the most sci-fi and film references hidden in the animated video for our song Goodbye at the End of the World. But nobody was particularly close to getting all […]
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 […]
Walk a Mile and The London Games
At the beginning of July, Stacey Haber of the Music Firm UK reached out to me to find out if I’d be willing to write and record a song for a social awareness campaign launching in conjunction with the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The campaign is called “Walk a Mile,” and draws its name […]
Obsolete Technology Will Demand a Reckoning: The Ghost of John Henry
Our new album, The Ghost of John Henry, is available today. The folk tale about a railroad worker who raced a steam drill has stuck with me since I was a little kid, and so in a lot of ways it feels like I’ve been leading up to this record my whole life. That makes […]
Quick Album Update: The Ghost of John Henry
It’s a very exciting time for me, since the new album will be out on Tuesday and we’ll be playing our CD release show a week from tonight. We’re taking digital pre-orders here and physical CD orders here. It’s hard to quantify how much different this feels than when the first album came out in […]
In the Studio, Final Weekend – Video Blog
We wrapped all of the recording for the new album, “The Ghost of John Henry” this weekend with our final cello, guitar, and vocal sessions, in addition to getting some miscellaneous percussion tracks. Percussion “instruments” on this record will include chains, old cast iron jail keys, artillery shells, homemade stomp box, a “thunder tube” (not […]