I’ll never forget it: I was eighteen, at a bass lesson one morning with my neighbor who used to be the music teacher at our high school but had since started teaching at our local university. Not only did he tell me I’ll never be a good jazz player because of “the color of your …
I’ve been semi-obsessed with the band Black Midi lately. Black Midi is a trio of British lads barely out of high school who released their third album, Hellfire, in July of this year. Their music can be described as exactly the kind of music I wanted to make when I, too, was in my twenties, …
Everybody’s got that end of the world fever. The paranoia pandemic. The sky is falling, except this time it is not a drill so everybody take cover. Catastrophe, baby! Apocalypse mania. Forget reading about dystopias, we’re living in one. In light of this, why bother with creation? Who are all of these weirdos writing things …
Alexander Hellene is either a dilettante or a Renaissance man, depending on whom you ask. A musician, athlete, artist, and law school graduate, Alexander has always been attracted to fantastical tales, since they tend to do a better job of explaining how the world works than just about anything else. He lives in New England with his wife and children.
The exciting conclusion to Alexander Hellene’s sword-and-planet trilogy, The Swordbringer!