Drifter's Sympathy

13/05/2024

It’s been NINE YEARS since LILACS & CHAMPAGNE have released a record!?! (🏝️)>> TODAY we’re announcing L&C's grand re-awakening with a new LP called “FANTASY WORLD”,, a massive new labyrinth of samples arranged into a darker Voltronic beast for your late-night head-nodding⛲️🎠⛲️

>>Out July 19. The longtime side-hustle of Grails’ members Emil Amos and Alex Hall expand on their bizarre excursions with more dread, humor, instrumentation, and friends.

Listen to the first single, “Ill Gotten Gains” and pre-order Fantasy World in limited edition Deep Purple colored vinyl!🔥🌎🔥

03/08/2022

For the first time ever, DRIFTER'S SYMPATHY finally has a storefront that lists everything in my stockroom💥🤱🏻💥
..I'm going to try and keep almost every record I've ever made available here but a lot of this stuff is falling out of print - there are some rare shirts in particular that won't be re-printed and there's only one or two of each left >> dig thru here cuz there are some pretty obscure RARITIES!🏔🧗🏼‍♀️🏔
https://www.drifterssympathy.com/shop

SHOP Vinyl | CDs | Merchandise | Vinyl CDs Merchandise DS Season Five : Black/White Ink 20.00 DS Season Five : White/Blue Ink 20.00 DS Season Five : Aged Wine/Gold Ink 20.00 DS Season Five : Citron/Black Ink 20.00 EMIL AMOS: FILMMUSIK from 15.00 LILACS & CHAMPAGNE: Self Titled (Black Vinyl) 25.00 GR...

07/07/2022

..As a final nail in Drifter's Sympathy season five, here's a second bonus episode💥.. a conversation with Stephen Malkmus a few years ago that gets into his early beginnings✨🕊✨its probably the most in-depth I've gotten to hear him go // we touch on everything from his early punk band 'Straw Dogs' to David Berman's casual goth genesis to Crooked Rain's semi-conscious look back to AM radio GOLD🏝>>>

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-episode-stephen-malkmus/id1139584853?i=1000569027680

05/07/2022

My buddy Jake has a brand new hot sauce celebrating Drifter's Sympathy💦🏄🏼‍♂️💦
...In the past limited runs we've done 'I Want to Live a Spicy Life', 'Burning off Impurities', 'Decline of the West' and a Lilacs & Champagne sauce but this is my favorite one and we're gonna keep it in PRINT this time🔥🌮🔥 >> Its mango-based and not quite as hot as the others so people who aren't trying to get DESTROYED will likely prefer this one // its my favorite flavor he's EVER done EVER >> check it out here >> Shipping included⚡️::

https://www.newkssauces.com/collections/frontpage/products/drifters-delight-hot-sauce-emil-amos-collection

20/06/2022

The first LP on Drifters Sympathy is out today.🥂

I started a label literally days before the vinyl crisis began so the timing was brutal... and then, believe it or not, the first two artists I was working with have since died... running a label is a crazy idea at this point, but because we've begun a massive project of rescuing multiple records I made that never came out, this s**t is REAL!💥 >> specifically, LOST DECADE IV (1996-'02) is being turned in right now for the next release and its the best lo-fi record I ever made✨🍇✨

Criminal's Return represented an important new phase for Holy Sons after Decline of the West and for the first time ever its on LP directly from us... Recorded from '07-'09 in Portland Oregon, this new edition includes two previously unreleased tracks from the New York era & we'll be premiering one of those next Monday... Happiness💛

Criminal's Return represented an important new phase for Holy Sons after Decline of the West and for the first time ever its on LP. Recorded from '07-'09 in Portland Oregon, this new edition includes two previously unreleased tracks, “A Co**se With Long Hair” & “At The Carnival”, from th...

15/06/2022

There's a surprise episode of Drifter's Sympathy up today!💥 >> Ron & I went to brunch recently and afterwards he was given a cider as "payment", the mics were fired up and his wisdom came rolling out generously..💐

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-episode-ron-gets-fan-mail/id1139584853?i=1000566379028

18/05/2022

"LONER LEGENDS III" is up everywhere now & brings Season Five to a close with spotlights on Eden Ahbez, John Phillips, Alan Hull, & Basil Kirchin✨🍇✨

*includes some ideas on next season at the end & my only tale of getting fired as a DJ in Williamsburg for not sufficiently providing "bier haus" music...

Thanks for listening // this has been the most gratifying season yet🥂

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/loner-legends-iii/id1139584853?i=1000561854475

10/05/2022

The final episode of Season Five is up on Patreon now & will be everywhere next Tuesday✨🎞✨

🍂"LONER LEGENDS III" features::
*an overview of Eden Ahbez & the writing of Nature Boy
*a difficult dive into the dastardly world of John Phillips
*an overview of Alan Hull's work with Lindisfarne and solo LPs
*a section on Basil Kirchin and his pioneering of 'ambient music'

Thanks for listening >> some bonus episodes will be rolling out soon...💦🏄🏻💦

https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-48-loner-66232600

03/05/2022

People requested a return to the 'heavy' episodes this season,, so this one is a sequel to "The Outsider", the other purely philosophical episode that anchored Drifter's Sympathy into a hardcore existentialist stance. This cast uses the holy trinity of American Country Music, Taoism and the Twilight Zone to illustrate our fruitless attempt to resolve the perpetually unfinished nature of consciousness itself. In the form of a classic Existentialist thesis, 'Four Walls' puts forward that escapism only erodes what integrity and strength we have... and that the only way forward is straight through the murk & confusion directly. At the very least, you'll never hear the song "Hello Walls" the same again... and at the very best, this cast helps demonstrate why Kurtz's last words in 'Heart of Darkness' are "The horror, The horror."

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/four-walls/id1139584853?i=1000559482085

26/04/2022

We're nearing the end of Season Five of Drifter's Sympathy now,,, there are two more main episodes coming up fast & then there'll be some bonus content rolling out 💥🎳💥>> today the sequel to the episode "The Outsider" drops on Patreon and will be up everywhere next Tuesday - its called "Four Walls" and uses Country Music, Taoism and the Twilight Zone to draw up an unlikely correlation of modern day Existentialist thought hidden inside of popular culture... Its one of the hardest podcasts I've ever tried to do,,, meant for listening, laying alone in the middle of the night and going to a place you can't often purposely access -- And then the final episode will be "Loner Legends III" that'll tell the fascinating story of "the original hippie" Eden Ahbez writing "Nature Boy" for Nat King Cole.... more soon✨🧩🕶🧩✨

https://www.patreon.com/posts/65614996

20/04/2022

The sequel of "THE DAWN OF SELFISH MUSIC" goes a little darker into the consequences of gaining total freedom. On the other side of this new frontier, Dylan finds people breaking into his house to find their leader, Miles Davis tries to shake off imitators chasing his every aesthetic move and a never-ending supply of drugs causes David Crosby's life to fully crash and burn. Gene Clark is the patron saint of this episode, while managing to commit various sins no saint has ever conceived of. If this particular cast ever seems overly negative, its really just an attempt to grapple with the true ugliness that went on behind the making of some of our favorite music. Because treating that music as a product alone doesn't really honor the spiritual confusion that came alongside the "me generation" and selfish music's announcement that anything was now fair game. When does being too selfish cause total destruction...? - All of the characters in this episode flirt with total freedom and some don't make it out.🔥

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dawn-of-selfish-music-ii/id1139584853?i=1000558048742

19/04/2022

For the first time ever we're taping a live episode of Drifter's Sympathy✨💎👜💎 ✨

K-Fab are putting this on in the beautiful Paradise Theatre in Toronto, Canada on May 21st💥 We'll be showing the notorious cult film 'WILD GUITAR', featured in the opening of Loner Legends II before we tape the live episode >> stoked to see old friends up there after so long,, there's also talk of having a holy sons show the next nite too but more info on that later >> tickets are here ::

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/k-fab-presents-wild-guitar-a-night-with-emil-amos-tickets-322330758977?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Flyer designed by the genius Matt Howl💐

12/04/2022

'The Dawn of Selfish Music' returns for a sequel this week on Drifter's Sympathy - for the first time I got to go hard into the Byrds and get pretty morbid about the various casualties lost in the post-Dylan frontier of total freedom. One does inevitably wonder how much selfishness is too much selfishness when looking back into the ocean of O.D.'s in the 70's... but mostly this is a clear-eyed look at trying to understand the boundary expansion of 'the classics' for yourself. The legendary Jack Nitzsche is pictured here before the fall... ..This episode will be up everywhere next Tuesday and is already on Patreon now💥

https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-46-dawn-65050196

05/04/2022

Duncan Trussell from the Duncan Trussell Family Hour returns to Drifter's Sympathy for "The Lecturer part II" >> this one was supposed to be the light-hearted episode of the season and it ended up going xtra dark once Again...🥂🧛🥂 up now everywhere ::
https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the.../id1139584853...

29/03/2022

Duncan Trussell of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour is the guest on Drifter's Sympathy today💥>> its already up on Patreon now and will be on all platforms next Tuesday >> in other news,, Drifters seems to have already 'helped inspire' some richer people to borrow its vibe >> check out these two coincidences..🍂🕵️‍♂️🍂
https://www.patreon.com/posts/64412445

22/03/2022

Episode 44 : "The Dawn of Selfish Music" is UP on all platforms today!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dawn-of-selfish-music/id1139584853?i=1000554837962

Tracing back to the beginnings of when music on the radio began to slowly fracture and morph in the late 50's, Emil returns to a small fleet of songwriters in the Teen Heartthrob era that began to dream of a coming world of freedom and evolution in the art of songform. Driven by the seizing of a personal power outside of the need to please the crowd, these writers leaked actual emotions into their recordings which set the stage for bands like the Beatles to flex an intellectualism that couldn't have been hypothesized a few years before.

The setting is established by the epic meeting of Bobby Vee and Bob Dylan in a record store in Fargo, North Dakota in 1959. Dylan lasts two weeks in Vee's band after greatly misrepresenting his skill set and then Bobby Vee goes on to become an international superstar without him, showing Dylan that the dream is really possible. Then when Dylan makes his return to the market with a fully developed image, he ends up eviscerating Bobby Vee's entire genre and the world would never be the same. This is part one of "the Dawn of Selfishness".

15/03/2022

🪓EPISODE 44 :: THE DAWN OF SELFISH MUSIC pt.1🪓 will be up next Tuesday on all platforms & is up on Patreon now💥

I got to tell one of my fave stories about Bob Dylan and Bobby Vee meeting in a record store in 1959, where Dylan lies to him by saying he's an accomplished musician just off the road with Conway Twitty and his name is "Elston Gunnn"... The two become fast friends and Dylan lasts about a week in Bobby Vee's band until he's fired for only being able to play in the key of C... the story spirals thru the eras as various songwriters try to crack the code of injecting personal freedom into the market... until Dylan's bizarre reinvention eviscerates the Teen Heartthrob era in a matter of a few brutal seconds.... this episode covers :

*Gene Pitney (pictured here)
*Scott Walker
*the Beatles boyz
*Del Shannon
*Bobby Vee
*Buddy Holly
*Bob Dylan
*Neil Young

Part 2 continues the thesis with more 'Selfish music' pioneers like Miles Davis and Jack Nietzsche...
https://www.patreon.com/posts/63816691

08/03/2022

Drifter's Sympathy Episode 43 "Moving to Portland" is up on all platforms now✨🍓✨
>> SEASON FIVE is REAL☀️👙☀️

"The new season of Drifter's Sympathy picks back up at the end of the last episode.

'I Want to Live a Peaceful Life' was about the sudden malaise that can descend on you at the end of college. Emil moved in with Duncan Trussell in LA and only lasted a summer before he realized that it wasn't the right place to start a music career based on hyper-honesty.
This episode approaches the emotional field of getting to Portland in 1999 and experiencing cultural confusion after having spent four years recording up in the mountains of North Carolina. The cast wades in what it feels like to be 22 years old... simultaneously out of your depth, while also having something to offer that no one wants any part of.
There will be a part two of 'Moving to Portland' next season that gets into the beginnings of starting to play music in front of people, but this episode is centered around the sensation of arriving in a foreign land. Its a meditation on the true deflation one feels when they grasp how ridiculous scaling the vertical wall that trying to make art in public can be... and the harsh reality of trying to achieve what you think your heroes did.
There are important references in here to the earlier episodes : 'Moving to LA',, 'The Satan Seller' and 'I Want to Live A Peaceful Life'..."

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moving-to-portland/id1139584853?i=1000553343933

01/03/2022

Drifter's Sympathy Episode 43 will be out next Tuesday on all platforms /// the new episode "Moving to Portland" is already up on the Patreon page today✨🕊✨>> This Season will conclude with a banger episode of LONER LEGENDS that features a huge spotlight on the details behind Eden Ahbez's life and the writing of the song Nature Boy (Eden pictured here),,, and the season centers around two massive music history episodes that graph out an idea I've been refining called "The Dawn of Selfish Music"... it uses people from Miles Davis to Jack Nitzsche to illustrate the punk instinct that steals back the power for the individual in art, continually beating back the entertainer-ist patterns that contaminate and push to kill off the evolution of raw communication. More episodes coming SOON🔥👨‍🔬🔥

https://www.patreon.com/drifterssympathy

17/02/2022

The Drifter's Sympathy podcast is BACK for a Fifth Season and has joined the Talkhouse Network to roll out new episodes >> Episode 42 is UP everywhere now💥,, this features a big chunk of the Q&A episode from last season to help catch listeners up before the new episodes start DROPPING >>> PARTY🥂

Episode link here::
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q-a-and-5th-season-announcement/id1139584853?i=1000551201041

02/02/2022

Drifter’s is fully back💥🤱🏻💥 ...
..this season tackles moving to Portland in 1999 and rolls out a new thesis on what I'm calling "The Dawn of Selfish Music" which is how I'm summing up the purer punk instinct that consistently rises up to expand artistic inner-horizons & take our power back from the oppressors,, seems like a pretty good time to roll out that theory... but for today there's a new Q&A episode up on the Patreon here,,, more SOON💐 ::
https://www.patreon.com/posts/q-2-is-here-62023896

(If you’re already in a Patreon tier now you’ve only got one month left to slide into a different tier🕊👰🏻🕊)

18/01/2022

Drifter's Sympathy Season Five is finally rolling up on us!✨🍇✨6 new episodes (and the eventual bonus casts) will start dropping in March,, I just posted up all new super sick rewards for patrons you can check out here // if you're already signed up for a tier you can easily slide around to another now - and if you have any rad ideas or questions hit me up anytime!,, check out the new, beautiful puzzles and skateboards I got made here🌾::

https://www.patreon.com/drifterssympathy

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09/12/2021

New feature on the coming season of Drifter's Sympathy /// you get *spicy takes on David Crosby,, *spoilers on the new Wu Tang series,, *Neil Young over-analyzed,, *and the festering wounds of a supreme bitterness you've come to expect!🌩🥀🌩

We recently caught up with Emil Amos to discuss Neil Young, Wu Tang, the upcoming season of Drifter’s Sympathy, the vinyl manufacturing crises and the shadowy history of his father’s friendship with David Crosby.

30/09/2021

✨🕊 HAY🕊✨.. I'm finally rounding the final curve on SEASON FIVE of Drifter's Sympathy NOW... there's a full update on the workload for various LPs here at the link below,, and a question about the upcoming season content I was hoping someone might have an opinion about,, (all of our bands are also just about to finish up ALL of their new records,,,, just in time for the worst vinyl crisis of ALL TIME EVER EVER)>> More SOON after its SAFER to say anything about manufacturing and THINGS⚡️🦇⚡️

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30/09/2021

13/03/2021

There’s a new podcast here on psychedelics, idols/gurus and mixing music✨🔦🕶🔦✨ more to COME💥🧨💥

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/instrumental-breakthoughs/id1512076134?i=1000510232495

‎Show Instrumental Breakthoughs, Ep #32: Emil Amos - Instrumental Breakthroughs by Tam Integration - Feb 22, 2021

18/02/2021

..Major news of tha DAY💥🥊💥

Raw & Disfigured has been repressed on Orange vinyl and is shipping out NOW... BUT Thrill Jockey were extremely CLEVER and also repressed the Fact Facer for the first time in SEVEN years... this new edition of the Fact Facer will ship out on April 5th and features a new color vinyl INNOVATION we're calling "Jaundice" Yellow >> Check it out here🍳 :: http://thrilljockey.com/products/the-fact-facer

..and R&D here :: http://thrilljockey.com/products/raw-and-disfigured

06/11/2020

Bandcamp has waived their fees today so FEEL FREE to go pick up the new Holy Sons record 'Raw & Disfigured'✨🍇✨
..meanwhile THE W**D HEADS have already got their hands on it >>>> ✨📸montage by Jake Newcomb📸✨
https://holysons.bandcamp.com/album/raw-and-disfigured

27/10/2020

There's a new interview out today on Drifter's Sympathy and the new double LP by Holy Sons called "Raw & Disfigured"🕊
..the record comes out this Friday✨🍇✨ >>>it looks like the color vinyl is already sold out but there's still some black copies here💥:
https://www.thrilljockey.com/products/raw-and-disfigured

Holy Sons’ sensational new album, Raw and Disfigured is set for release this Friday and we talk to Emil Amos in the first part of an exclusive two part feature.

01/05/2020

>>🕊NEW XTRA-LOST TRACKS EP "SELFISH MIND"🕊> all TECHNICAL NOTES below ::✨🕊✨

https://holysons.bandcamp.com/album/selfish-mind-lost-traxx-ep

'Selfish Mind' was recorded at home in North East Portland, OR in the childhood home of Trailblazers point-guard Damon Stoudamire in 2011 (HISTORIC IRVINGTON🌺)... (later re-recorded in NY for the Fact Facer)

'Addiction' was reworked from a klassic Straight-Edge hardcore song by the Boston band Slap Shot >>re-written from the perspective of someone who's addicted,, recorded upstairs on Maple Street in 2013 in Lefferts Garden, Brooklyn...

'Trained so Bad' is a B-side from the "Fall of Man" era,, recorded at home in Bushwick while looking out the window at the M train in 2016.✨🍇✨

3 track album