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 […]

Horror Movies to Watch This October

It’s hard for me to believe that it was a year ago today that — without fully realizing what I was doing — I started work on the Sci-Fi Romance October EP. For those not familiar, every October I watch as many classic horror movies as I can cram into my eyeballs, and last year, over […]

Throwback Thursday: Original Cover Art Sketch

I was going through some files while working on the cover art for the new album, and found my original pen sketch that became the cover art for the first Sci-Fi Romance album, …and surrender my body to the flames. I had not intended to do the cover art. There was another artist lined up at the […]

Six Reasons Why Fall is Inarguably the Best Season

Today is the Autumnal Equinox, otherwise known as the first day of fall, otherwise known as the beginning of the best season. This is not an opinion. Fall is the best season. There are plenty of reasons why, but here are a few off the top of my head: 1. The Halloween It seems like […]

Five Recording Studio Documentaries

I was going through some of the footage of the band in the studio recording the new album, and it gave me the itch to watch the documentary The Wrecking Crew, about the unbelievably prolific LA session musicians who recorded most of rock ‘n roll in the 1960s. It was really good, so naturally it made me want […]

The Fall of the House of Usher, 1960

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/221462713″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Through twisted trees the wind blows cold This crawling haze it fills my soul And I’m looking down Wicked blood through wicked veins This blackened ground it knows my name And I’m looking down I say break, break, break Break, break, break Break, break, break Born to be […]