Sean Boyle (aka Black Circles) has spent years and years pursuing me down dark alleys and frightening me to death with the work of his band, the illustrious and justly famed Dead Company.  However, if I were being totally honest, I have to say I have a soft spot for the old geezer.  As crazy and bizarre as his work with the Dead Company is, his solo work as Black Circles is the template

Like any community, virtual or otherwise, its inevitable that you will get to know some people.  Even old curmudgeons like myself.  Being a reasonably approachable guy, over the past four or five years since I came from Usenet newsgroups and started being more of a web prescence, my circle of friends has increased dramatically.  From a few hundred people on Usenet, now I know thousa

One of the very best parts about reviewing tracks the way that I do is that every once in a while I can choose what I want to review and here's a case in question.  It's been a long, long time since I last heard something new from me old mate Sean Boyle (aka Black Circles), although I've heard some new stuff from his collab band, The Dead Company.  Regardless of which branch of his music

Black Circles are new to MP3 Unsigned and have hurled themselves into the arena with an experimental tag. I don't know the exact mathematics to it but its likely experimental is one of the least delved into genres by the average human being as they go shopping in HMV. Unless something pretty weird is going on in our lives we prefer the comfort of repetition, safe comfortable feelings which a lot o