Music Moots with Stay-at-Home Cousin (sampler platter)

We are extremely back with Music Moots™, the blogseries where I ask someone to recommend me a song they like, and then I listen to the song and then write a little about it. Today we've got Stay-at-Home Cousin! Aka the musical persona of Maya Gaster

Bring Me The Horizon live at the Palladium, wowow

Sometimes, very occasionally, I forget that I live in Los Angeles, a town full of people vying for fame and fortune in several different sectors of the entertainment industry, and who are therefore extremely good-looking...and then I am reminded of it when I go to a show like

I Enjoy Music Photo Club (vol. 1)

A while ago I put feelers out for folks who would be interested in doing an I Enjoy Music photo club. This would entail emailing me a digital photo they'd taken at a concert, plus a short written backstory explaining why the photo meant something to them. In

music for neighborhood headbanging (megamix 17)

Welcome back to another megamix, which you are probably receiving via email—but if you're reading it from the blog, which I just typo'd as "bog", think about signing up for the newsletter, which means the megamix would come straight to your door, signed

this viral guitar riff is destroying my brain

A popular type of prompt online is asking people to brag about artists they saw before they got huge. People will gush about seeing Tame Impala as an opening act, or Wilco back at Maxwells, or [big indie artist] in a basement, or [not as big indie artist] at a

Three Music Thingz with Mt Fog

Awooo, it's another rendition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we have Mt Fog! A band, or as they describe themselves, a "conscious mycelial network" in Seattle, WA, Mt Fog are

i am a semi-retired party girl and have completely lost my mind over the new Slayyyter album

This morning, I sipped a cup of delicious coffee from a DFA Records mug. When the pandemic happened, I decided to improve my homemade coffee game once and for all, so now I do the freshly ground beans and the weighed measurements and all that stuff. I got up at

Three Music Thingz with DI LEO

Oouuuuoooouuu, it's another rendition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we have DI LEO! That's Phil Di Leo, who makes thoughtful and delicate indie-folk-pop in and around Oakland, California.

i watched a bunch of new and old music videos and here are my thoughts

Sometimes, the baby goes to bed, a martini is stirred/poured, and it's time to watch a bunch of music videos. I like to follow a trail of breadcrumbs, one video reminding me to watch another one. "GO" - Blackpink I started at the new Blackpink song

behind the album art with Eggs On Mars

I Enjoy Music and wow I Enjoy Album Art as well! How do you ever decide how to depict the visual component of your musical album? How do you figure out what goes on that square? Do you think that album art will ever start defaulting to 9x16 dimensions, to

Three Music Thingz with Dialup Ghost

Ooo baby, it's another rendition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we have Dialup Ghost! The Nashville rock band (Russ Finn, Jade McPeak, Jordan Smith, and Jack Holway) put out their fifth LP,

Getting Blurrrry at the Joanne Robertson show

Last year I listened to Joanne Robertson's Blurrr because Ryley Walker said it had the "most ill guitar playing [he's] heard all year." Then I started to see that reddish purple album cover selfie everywhere. Something about my existence as a music writer is