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 Carolyn

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 have written

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

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, Donkey

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

music moots with Midnight ("Bless the Telephone" by Labi Siffre)

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 have Midnight! A folk singer-songwriter in New Orleans, Midnight came to my attention when

music for changing your mind (megamix 16)

Bonjour mes amis. Let's get into the mix... The Perennial Sound in the Valley I've really liked Perennial since I saw their album Art History getting talked up amongst my music loving internet peers. They take midcentury modern vibes and run them through the punk extruder.

Three Music Thingz with Best Actress

Oh my gosh, 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 Best Actress! The NYC-based band brings together Georgia Pettit of Our Lady of Sorrows, Ryan Jantz of no big, and