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 LATEST MUSIC |
| LATEST JAK LOCKE ALBUM RELEASES |
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The Wreckage, The Yield, And A Place I Can Crawl Up From
Nine tracks of transitional raucous rock and harmonies. And other sounds too, but let's not get too wordy here.
released August 17 2018 |
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Over
An album of songs about disappearing. 9 tracks of dark downtempo psychedelic spacey folk.
released August 9 2016 |
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Action Packed Self Destruction
11 tracks of high octane explosive rock! A mix of past single-only releases and totally new songs.
released June 14 2014 |
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Shape Dream + Azairah
Diving Bell
Ten tracks of drone/ambient. Soundscape of a one-way journey to a sunken city.
released June 26 2020 |
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Shape Dream + Azairah
Drift Protocol
Nine tracks of drone/ambient, chronicle of a pilotless reentry from deep space.
released January 6 2020 |
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AUTODESTRUCTOR
Cycle, My Tyrant
Ten tracks of harsh noise & malicious soundscape. High volume recommended.
released November 29 2019 |
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Ready, Set, Break
High octane anger 'n' angst punk, ska and alt rock
original release July 9 1999
re-released August 9 2020 |
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A Sleeping Afternoon
Drowsy lo-fi acoustic stream of consciousness folk and antifolk
original release July 19 2001
re-released August 3 2020 |
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Chaos Turbine
Spare and grotesque compositions mixed with sunny straight jazz blues and psychedelic pieces
original release June 25 2001
re-released July 31 2020 |
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 LATEST GAMES |
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Black Lodge 2600 v1.1
Surrounded by crazed spirits and with your doppelganger in hot pursuit, could this be curtains for you?
V1.1 released May 17 2017
V1.0 released June 23 2011 |
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"The Vats" - grip platformer concept demo
Vault amazing distances in the radioactive vats. Missed that jump? Broke your legs & neck? Drowned in sludge? It's okay, you've got clones! Pull yourself up that ledge and go find the good sludge at the end!
released June 18 2020 |
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"Game Over" - movement & dialog test
Can you reach "Game Over"? More to the point, can you get bored enough to try enough things to get to "Game Over"?
released January 19 2016 |
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"Cigarette Quest" - AGS basic function test
Find cigarettes while hanging out at long-dead Metairie venue Zeppelins! Actually even that description implies far more depth than you'll find in this simple early exercise of trying out Adventure Game Studio's interaction functions.
released October 11 2007 |
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 LATEST VIDEOS |
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The Monochromes promo reel
Assorted live video clips of The Monochromes!
released August 16 2020 |
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The Jak Locke Rock Show promo reel
Hot takes and cool shots of The Jak Locke Rock Show!
released August 16 2020 |
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The Monochromes for Crescent City Gumbo livestream
The Monochromes play a 40 song set for the Crescent City Gumbo livestream
released July 9 2020 |
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| LATEST SHORT SUBJECT VIDEOS |
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Behind the Scenes of Targeted
We talk about the experience of utilizing an outsider art approach to filmmaking in producing a series of western films with no budget, a crew of five, and a cast of mostly first-timers.
released May 7 2016 |
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outtakes from "Jimmy Makton and The Counting Room Three"
The actors playing the bungling criminals show some method acting techniques! Here are the most entertaining outtakes from the Counting Room Three shoots.
released April 28 2016 |
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outtakes from "The Bounty Hunter and The Butcher"
Blown lines, ripped pants and derailing trains ahoy! Here are the most entertaining outtakes from the Bounty Hunter shoots.
released April 21 2016 |
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Jimmy Makton and The Counting Room Three
Jimmy Makton is a Pinkerton Agent who nearly meets his match when he tracks three vicious bank robbers to their hideout -- well, according to what he tells the press anyway.
At a certain point, the reputation does all the work. There's more than one side to a story and Jimmy's got them all covered, depending on who's listening.
released April 25 2016 |
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The Bounty Hunter and The Butcher
In 1874, acclaimed local hero and Pinkerton Agent Jimmy Makton is called in from Chicago to California to track down Billy the Butcher, a vicious murderer targeting soldiers and lawmen. Paired against his will with the wild bounty hunter Samuel Barnet, Jimmy soon finds that he may not be as ready for the frontier as it is for him.
released April 18 2016 |
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Targeted!!! A Western Written By A Seven-Year-Old
See what happens when a script I wrote when I was seven is shot and played completely straight.
Jimmy Makton is a naive greenhorn who's found himself in the wild west. Luckily, Samuel Barnet's showing him the ropes of how to survive in the area... but Bickerin' Billy's in town looking to get back the money Samuel owes him by the deadliest means.
released April 11 2016 |
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Beautiful Day To Be Dead
from Chaotic Narcotic (2009)
released September 19 2010 |
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Thrift Store Reject
from Battery Acid (2005)
released March 14 2009 |
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Molotov Cocktail
from Battery Acid (2005)
released August 7 2007 |
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 LATEST WRITING |
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The Junkyard Capital
"The Wind In The Willows meets Watergate." A satire about political animals that requires no prior political knowledge (just like real politics). Available in paperback, hardcover and eBook!
released February 1 2017 |
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Paint!
This badly-drawn comic will either be the stupidest thing you've ever seen or the most awesome. There's only one way to find out which. 11 pages.
released July 12 2011 |
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Vista & Me: A Book For Reading
A children's book about frustration and technology. NOTE: Please don't actually let children read this. 16 pages.
released May 6 2010 |
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Lock Yourself Inside #3: Brawl
Farks tries to pull a fast one and the situation escalates quickly.
released April 7 2010 |
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sunday
AUG
30
10:00PM
JAK LOCKE
triple music video premiere on
THE PAT STEREO SHOW'S PATAPALOOZA 2020
WATCH LIVE AT THE PATAPALOOZA FB GROUP
w/ Crush Diamond, Kentaro Saito, Moses Knightshead, Michael Cobb, Pat Stereo, Radians, Toni Biello, Alex Whitley
saturday
SEP
5
2:00PM
THE JAK LOCKE ROCK SHOW
performs at
SLIDELL, LA
SMOKE ON THE WATER SERIES
$2 DONATION LIVESTREAM AT ARTISTSFORMUSICIANS.COM
w/ SugarBomb
saturday
SEP
12
2:00PM
THE MONOCHROMES
performs at
SLIDELL, LA
SMOKE ON THE WATER SERIES
$2 DONATION LIVESTREAM AT ARTISTSFORMUSICIANS.COM
w/ Faking Solace
| PRESS KITS FOR JAK'S LIVE ACTS |
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• THE JAK LOCKE ROCK SHOW •
THEATRICAL INDIE ROCK |
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• THE MONOCHROMES •
50s & 60s COVERS |
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• PALE DEVIL SUN •
METAL & DEATH BLUES |
There aren't too many things that are lamer than someone going on about what they're "gonna do", like your friend who's gonna start writing that novel juuust as soon as the mood is right or whatever excuse feels good to them this week.
But hey, since you asked via seeing the headline of this section and then continuing to read, here's some projects that have more than just intent actually done on them: |
The Jak Locke Rock Show has finished recording tracks for a 12 song album at Studio 13 in Metairie!
It's all songs I've released before but they sound very different with Blaine, Brad, Trina and Brian playing on them, with engineer Ryan Toussel's input, and not least because they've all changed either subtly or dramatically since I wrote and recorded them the first time (or first few times in a couple cases).
Final mixing's in progress. I won't bore you with weeks of pictures of contextless sound waves or whatever a band's supposed to do, just letting you know that something's coming soon. |
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The Cowboy takes no guff and is ready to start recording with his three-piece band, pandemic or no.
His song "Sorry" got nine seconds of applause at an open mic in Kenner one night last year (the Saturday one too, not that Wednesday evening crap), and that was enough for him to realize he was a legend in the making.
With the help of his friends he rustled up a band of minions, finished a suspiciously successful Kickstarter campaign to buy three microphones and a Mexican dinner, and started the train a-rollin. He even wrote a few more songs along the way. Next stop: country stardom.
The Cowboy kinda insists that you start getting all riled up for his debut release which is sure to drop Just About Any Day Real Soon Now. In the meantime, check out his website and also follow his journey to write the next chapter of country music history on his Facebook page which he updates even when he really shouldn't. |
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| And back to me, I'm working on a new album of bluesy oily sleazy vaudeville-y numbers, many of them the ones I made and played for burlesque and circus acts over the years. Songs on this one include "Broken Joe", "Cirrhosis", "Pastel Currency", "Glass Medusa", "Narcissus Stomp" and "I Bet You I Can Tell You Where You Got Them Blues". Most of these are underway, though I'll be honest, it's going to be a while before heavy lifting's done on this one. |
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One-offs, micro-run releases and demos spanning from 1996 to 2008 are always being remixed and remastered for reissuing. There's a lot of them and I want you to hear them. Thing is, I only have copies of some of these releases on cassette tapes that sound like they spent a decade in a neutron star.
The good news is that I keep everything, so I've got the master tracks and/or dub masters for everything... somewhere. As those original masters are located, organized, cleaned up and remixed, I'll rerelease them on Bandcamp and announce it on the site.
Currently in progress (free time permitting only, as these aren't a high priority)
are Reject (1998), Obelisk (1999), Pale Blue (1999), Seed (2001), Laced (2002), Shut Off (2004) and various one-shots from late 2008. There are a lot more too, I just haven't gotten to / found them yet. |
| "Fish In Atlantis", the sequel to 2017's "The Junkyard Capital" is in slow but unsteady progress, about a third of the first draft is written. As I mentioned above, the more you talk about a book, the less you're actually going to finish it, sooo moving on |
The movement engine, the player sprite, the back story and some background graphics are finished for a 2-D platformer I've been working on since October 2017 in (microscopically) small bursts.
Its working title is "The Vats" and you can probably count on that to change, though I've been wrong before on things like that. There's a playable engine concept demo up for you to check out if you like. |
A couple years back I made a simple game for the last phase of an escape room-themed Halloween party where the object was for two players to follow a path and reach the destination at the same time. While testing it I found it's also fun with one player using either two analog sticks or WASD + arrow keys.
I'm expanding it to a full game and kicking around some different mutations of the idea like adding rhythm aspects -- we'll see where it goes. A casual glance at the filename for the screenshot JPG will reveal that I have absolutely no inkling of a title in mind yet. |
