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 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 …
2024 was arguably the busiest year I’ve had in music. For doing this all around my more than full-time job running ChutingStar and precious time with my family, it’s only by the love of my Google Calendar that it all works out. 2024 ODD Music Read More …
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 …
Just 6 months after the release of our debut album Corridors, Red Hot Empty finished our follow-up EP Burden. This EP means the world to our band. Burden is written about anything you ever had to silently carry on your shoulders. This album also features some Read More …
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 …
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 …
By The Numbers, the forthcoming follow-up solo album to That GTown Sound is progressing right along inside GTown Studio. Two singles have already been released, and more than half of the album is recorded and mixed. I’m really excited with how each song is changing Read More …
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 …
Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl! As I look out at the year ahead for One Drummer Drumming, it’s the vinyl releases that top the list. Normally I would have timed the vinyl to drop on the same day that each album was released digitally, but current long Read More …
