Red Hot Empty’s 6th release is a raw reflection of the band. We stewed on this one a bit. We shook down an album’s worth of songs to an EP of 5 songs that are relevant to each other, and exposes Red Hot Empty’s musical Read More …
Category: Originals
BFF Strikes A Mcmansions Chord
The release of BFF puts a cap on a year-long run of recording and shows for Atlanta’s The Mcmansions. The song encompasses everything we loved about the band from a danceable rhythm to a sing-along chorus and that stripped down 4-piece rock band sound. Dan’s Read More …
World of Calamity A Heavy Hitter
World of Calamity is Red Hot Empty’s first release of 2025, and our heaviest to date. It features the first recording with Violet Hunter aka Doctor Deathray of Analog Revolution on bass and backing vocals. Violet also mixed the song and worked with Piper Payne Read More …
Riding A 3-Year Roll…
Inspiration…creativity…drive…patience…flow…all of that and more has fueled the past 3-year stretch of making music. At the end of 2019, just before we were all locked in for a worldwide pandemic, I had started tracking songs for my first solo album while developing plans to turn Read More …
By The Numbers Album Release!
By The Numbers album is here! This collection of 11 drum beats, grooves and instrumentals is a follow-up solo album to That GTown Sound. These rhythm-focus tracks are punctuated by moody trumpet, bass and piano melodies interweaved with groovy drum breaks. By The Numbers was Read More …
Red Hot Empty Album Delivers
From our first jam eight months ago, it was as if it was already written in the universe that Red Hot Empty would have an album by year’s end, and a welcomed presence throughout Atlanta’s punk scene. A week after our first jam we played Read More …
Stone Dresden Turns 30
Stone Dresden came together in 1991, and became the first post-high school band for 4 kids from the Eastside. We all grew up within walking distance of each other, but it was the guitar/bass duo of Chad McCollum and Shawn Psachos who were childhood friends Read More …
New Solo Album Released
The new album is complete! I ended up with 11 songs at just under 30 minutes total. I decided to stop there as it felt these songs had a fairly common musical theme from being written and recorded over the past year at my home Read More …
That GTown Sound
What is that GTown Sound? It’s born out of how you feel when you’re inside the purple eclectic GTown Stüdio here. It’s the sense of a calming peace yet your mind is on fire with creativity. It starts with a silky smooth bass or piano Read More …
The Essential Tracks: ’88-’94
This CD mixtape of sorts really came about because my sister asked for a CD of all the bands I used to be in. I tried to record all the cassette tapes to a CD several years ago, but always ran into some technical issue Read More …