Music Video: Smooth Jazz Riot

 

I made this video out of some random cool footage I had around just to use it up.  Smooth jazz and nature scenes seem to go together (not that the music is actually smooth jazz, more the subject matter of the song, about an administrative assistant who is tired of you music snobs making fun of her terrible taste in music).  I'm pretty sure the poor rabbit in the video later got eaten by the fox who was hanging around the neighborhood.  I wish I had been able to get the fox on video, but he was too darn fast.  He buzzed past me in the backyard once, so I can see how he cleans up the neighborhood with that sort of speed.  He pretty much cleared out the local wildlife and then moved on.  I wish he had eaten the deer though.  I didn't mind the rabbit, but the damn deer are always munching on stuff in the garden no matter how much I try to guard against them.  They're just trying to survive, so I can't get too mad at them, but it's pretty annoying to have a pumpkin destroyed because the deer chewed up the vine it was growing on when there's plenty of other stuff in the yard they can eat.  In any case, this is the penultimate video from the What's Your Flow Setting, Baby? album.  It was fun as usual to make.

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!

New Pop Lit On Frighty #3!

  

New Pop Lit spread the word about the new issue of Frighty, so thanks to King Karl and the rest of the New Pop Lit gang for that.  You can check it out here:  https://fastpoplit.com/2025/11/02/new-pop-lits-editor-appears-in-frighty-3/.   And if you want to check out Frighty itself, then it is here (remember, it's designed to be printed, doublesided, flip on short edge, fold, maybe bind, and read):  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RVQ3SL9yDklqNowKdEmYlwk7EKgF6BIQ/view?usp=drive_link  #4 will be out this winter, probably in January after the holidays quiet down.

For more Wred Fright writing, then read the latest novel, The Front Yard War.  

Music Video: I Love The Library

 

I have three more videos from What's Your Flow Setting, Baby?  This is the first of them.  After this album, I suspect it will only be a video or two an album.  It's almost 2026, and I'm still working on videos from a 2022 album.  Clearly, I won't have time to make a video for each song on an album.  That's OK.  Back in the MTV era, bands typically only did a video or two from an album; primarily, because videos were expensive.  Mine are no budget, so cost is not a constraint.  Time apparently is, however.  They are fun to make though.  I tried to enlist my old pal Mark Justice to play a role in this one, but we weren't able to schedule it, so I played the role myself.  With luck, we'll get to enlist Mark in a future video.

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!

Fall 2025 Hoof & Antler!

I wrote two articles for The Hoof & Antler this quarter, one on high school football and one on farming turkeys.  If you couldn't guess from the subject matter, it's the fall issue, and you can find it for free at your local Mickey Mart.  If you don't live near a Mickey Mart, then there has been talk of selling some back issues online on their Website.  It's a fun paper, and they've been basically "selling out", so grab one soon if you want one.  Maybe someday the editor will collect the issues in a book, but right now the focus is still on getting the newspaper out every quarter, so that might be a while if ever.

If you want to read something you can get everywhere, then get my new novel, The Front Yard War.

Frighty #3

  

The new Frighty is out.  Before I post the link, remember this zine is designed to be printed.  Reading online or otherwise electronically is not recommended.  The Internet is just being used as a distribution method because we're too cheap to pay for postage and printing.  When you print it, print it doublesided, mark it "flip on short edge"--let's repeat that so no one prints half the pages upside down; once again, flip on short edge--, fold it, staple it if you feel ambitious (to anyone who doesn't have a long stapler, you can do this with any stapler you flip open, you just have to staple the zine into a phone book or something, then pull it out and use a pencil or something to roll over and flatten the raised staple edges down--if that makes no sense, then somebody on YouTube probably has a video showing how to do it or just ask me and I'll show you how; just don't get a boo-boo doing it and use a rubber band or some other binding instead if you're worried you will), and you're good to go.  You can make copies if you want others to read it; we don't care.  Just don't sell them unless you're sending the money beyond printing it to us.

The issue was fun as usual, so we'll be doing #4 in the winter.  Thanks again to everyone who helped with this one!  Here's the link for printing/downloading:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RVQ3SL9yDklqNowKdEmYlwk7EKgF6BIQ/view?usp=drive_link

For more Wred Fright writing, then read the latest novel, The Front Yard War. 

Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer On Spotify

The new album, Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer, is on Spotify, so presumably it's now available everywhere else digital music is found.  If you give it a listen, you might double my monthly listeners.  I like the album; it's fun.  Based on the Spotify Wred Fright radio, which always amuses me, if you like musical artists such as Pavement, Modest Mouse, The Weirdos, Joy Division, Spacemen 3, Swell Maps, Nobunny, Flipper, and other obscure indie rockers (all of which sounds about right, so not bad for a computer algorithm), then you'll enjoy the album.  I didn't use artificial intelligence since human intelligence was messy enough, thank you.  Presumably, the reason it took so long to get uploaded was that the distributor is increasingly having to sort through artificial intelligence generated releases, but that's just a guess.  I've heard some interesting mashups from AI such as Minor Threat being played in soul style, so the technology shows promise, but I'd rather stick to playing the old-fashioned way at the moment as it is more fun.  It's kind of funny though that when I started playing solo as Wred Fright, coming out of the GoGoBots, I had some fun pretending to be a robot musician, a musical machine friend or something, and now the musical machine friends are really here.

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp! 

Music Video: Political Party B.Y.O.B.

 

This video was fun to make!  Spent some time on the last weekend of summer in downtown Cleveland, Ohio USA and found some appropriate footage for this politically-themed tune from What's Your Flow Setting, Baby?  I went down to see the nifty new Superman statue but saw lots of other nifty things as well such as The Green Bay Packers arriving under police escort and a pickle festival.  We ate at the Michael Symon restaurant and had some leftovers which I gave to a homeless dude digging through the trash.  If you're hungry enough to have to dig through a trashcan for food in downtown Cleveland, then you need the remaining pulled pork more than me.  The joke was that a block later, the guy yelled, "Dammit!  I wanted the beef brisket!"  Maybe so, but I was too busy walking back to my free parking, as usual a hike, to know for sure.  In any case, I hope the guy enjoyed the leftovers, and I hope you enjoy this video!

 

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!

Music Video: AM Radio Song

 

Here's a music video for "AM Radio Song".  I used footage from downtown Cleveland, Ohio USA that I filmed last fall.  The smashed keyboard might imply a storyline wherein a disgruntled office worker left the office one day in search of the soothing outdoors, but mainly it's just stuff I thought was cool looking.  I'll probably finish the videos for What's Your Flow Setting, Baby? (four more to go!), but since I'm several albums behind now, I'll probably only do a video or two from each of the later albums.  We'll see.  Making the videos is kind of fun.

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!

New Single!: Partying By Myself

wredfright · Partying By Myself

While I'm waiting for the distributor to get Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer out to Spotify and the rest (apparently, there's a 22-working day leadtime currently--and that's assuming they don't tell me it needs to be remastered, and I have to remind them it's not K-Pop; if it ever gets out, I'll let you know, though it's not like you can't listen to it on Bandcamp or Soundcloud already), here's a new single to tide us over.  This one's an ode to having fun by yourself, though I suppose it could also be interpreted as being sad.  The singer sounds a bit happy though in this version though; maybe someone can cover it with a downer arrangement sometime.  It's the usual vocals, guitar, fake bass, and drums, though I had fun playing around with a drum machine instead of playing drums live, so programming or whatever they call it when Ministry or somebody uses a drum machine on a recording?  Lyrics are below:

Have another drink.
It's always nice to see you.
I tell the mirror.
There's no one else here.

'Cause I'm partying by myself.

Put on some tunes.
It's a good time.
If the rest of the world wants to be miserable,
then I don't mind.

And if there's any melancholy,
I'll drown it in my drink.

The problem with bars is any jerk can walk in.
That's why a party is better,
and this is an exclusive party.
If you aren't me, you aren't invited.

For more Wred Fright music, give his latest album a listen or download at your favorite digital music site such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!