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Category: Originals

BFF Strikes A Mcmansions Chord

Posted onJanuary 27, 2025January 27, 2025

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 …

CategoriesOriginalsTagsHome Studio, Mike Gruwell Drums, The Mcmansions

World of Calamity A Heavy Hitter

Posted onJanuary 27, 2025January 27, 2025

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 …

CategoriesOriginalsTagsDrum Video, Home Studio, Mike Gruwell Drums, Original Music, Red Hot Empty

Riding A 3-Year Roll…

Posted onNovember 28, 2023November 28, 2023

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 …

CategoriesOriginalsTagsBlack Moses, Jack Endino, Mike Gruwell, Mike Gruwell Drums, Original Music, Red Hot Empty, Wanus

By The Numbers Album Release!

Posted onSeptember 28, 2023September 28, 2023

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 …

CategoriesOriginalsTagsJack Endino, Mike Gruwell Drums, Original Music

Red Hot Empty Album Delivers

Posted onDecember 27, 2022December 27, 2022

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 …

CategoriesOriginalsTagsAnalog Revolution, Home Studio, Mike Gruwell, Mike Gruwell Drums, Original Music, Red Hot Empty

Stone Dresden Turns 30

Posted onJanuary 4, 2022January 4, 2022

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 …

CategoriesOriginalsTagsJack Endino, Mike Gruwell Drums, Original Music, Seattle Music Scene, Stone Dresden

New Solo Album Released

Posted onJuly 30, 2021July 30, 2021

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 …

CategoriesOriginalsTagsDrum Album, Instrumental Album, Jack Endino, Jamie Gruwell, Mike Gruwell Drums, Nathan Gruwell, One Drummer Drumming, Stephanie Gruwell

That GTown Sound

Posted onJanuary 11, 2021January 11, 2021

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 …

CategoriesOriginalsTagsDrum Music, Drum Video, Mike Gruwell Drums, Original Music, Piano & Drums, Piano Music

The Essential Tracks: ’88-’94

Posted onJuly 24, 2020July 24, 2020

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 …

CategoriesOriginalsTagsBandcamp, Black Moses, Compilation CD, DFL, Eastside Hardcore, Jack Endino, Joel Ross, Mike Gruwell, Seattle Music, Stone Dresden

Black Moses Was Here…

Posted onJanuary 27, 2020January 27, 2020

Listening to Black Moses will transport you back to an early ’90s Seattle where the music scene was blowing up, yet most bands were just struggling to be heard, get gigs and stay together long enough to get noticed. To get to the essence of Read More …

CategoriesOriginalsTags90s Music, Black Moses, Carl Smith, Chad McCollum, Issac Hayes, Mike Gruwell, Seattle Music Scene, Shawn Psachos

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