I was doing my horrid morning scroll on Twitter and came across a chunk of text that displeased me (this happens often on Twitter...it's what keeps me coming back, the displeasure...): As it turns out, this chunk of text came from a long Freddie deBoer newsletter about
Cowabunga, 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 Noo Jii! Noo Jii is the musical identity of Paul Hannouche, who put out a beautiful experimental pop album called Vision Virgo
It's one of those June days in Los Angeles that features weather so pleasant it's almost boring, and I'm in the bar area of the downtown music venue The Moroccan Lounge, talking to Sasha McLeod, the musician known as Sycco, about the LSD trip
I find that if you are known among your friends as a music enjoyer, you are likely to become a sounding board for friends who send you links to new and intersting music. It's a good spot to be in. Case in point: a few weeks ago, my
Ooo la la, 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 Tall Mary! Tall Mary is a Vancouver-based noise punk band led by Cole Klassen that just put out a behemoth
I discovered the music of Canadian electronic artist Debby Friday, as ya do, through social media. Last year, she put out her debut studio album, Good Luck, an industrial-tinged alt-pop album with an almost tactile intensity to it throughout. Her latest single "To the Dancefloor" is, in a
Get outta town, 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 Miserable chillers! Miserable chillers is the musical identity of Miguel Gallego, who just put out an intriguing project called Great
Music Listeners
I am super excited to share a guest post today by Andrew Crowley, who publishes an amazing newsletter called Slouching Towards McDonaldland, about a band I previously didn't know, but was absolutely glad to learn more about: The Vulgar Boatmen. Billed by Andrew as "The Postal Service
Music Makers
Let's freaking go, 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 (leave) nelson b! (leave) nelson b is the solo musical identity of Nelson Brodhead, a producer in Garfield
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Greetings, welcome to the newsletter. Today we have... recaps of recent shows by Of Montreal + Ethel Cain Blog Posts of the Recent Past a New Graphic Design Initiative in the I Enjoy Music blogiverse a teaser of something fun and new....hmm... two live shows in Sunny Los Angeles Justin
It's Fourth of July time. Happy birthday, America, we are doing so good, we are truly killing it. In my opinion, as the sun beats down on us and the hot dogs sizzle, now is the perfect time to publish a mega-treatise on the State of the American
Concerts. Shows. Gigs. We love them, right? Yes we do. What if we all learned how to put them on ourselves? This is the very basic premise of Temporary State, a new non-profit organized by NYC do-it-yrself veteran Jordan Michael Iannucci, Hannah Pruzinsky and Ceci Sturman (the latter two run
Ooh la la, 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 Gender Warfare! Gender Warfare are a London-based trio—Zoe Oxymoron on vocals, Mia Thunderska on vocals/guitar/bass/synths, and
There's nothing I love more than an exciting internet-based musical journey. Imagine me jumping from hyperlink to hyperlink, discovering a wild new musical zone and bugging out entirely... ...this is what happened the other day when I visited albumoftheyear.org for the first time, which is a thing
My my, 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 Riggings! Riggings is the stage name of Alex Riggs, who just released her album Egg on June 21st via Horse Complex
Welcome to another edish of the I Enjoy Music newsletter. To preview the format of the newsletter, in an Axios breakin'-it-down style, we have: a little bit of writing around a new-to-me song by an unfamiliar artist (last time I did that with Frank Lenz's "
My timeline really delivered last week—amid a zesty wash of lime-green Brat memes, I witnessed a standout tribute to Charli XCX...in the form of a sculptural reference to the hedonistic track "Everything is romantic"...oh my god, it's JESUS CHRIST ON A PLASTIC SIGN!
Surf's up, one...more...time! ["Wipeout" drum solo begins] We're wrapping up our week of Wikipedia surfing with Harmony Woods (for the still-uninitiated...that's pasting "Special:Random" in the Wikipedia search bar and clicking until you see a page related
Holy moley, 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 comets near me! A self-described "tweemo" duo based in San Jose, CA, comets near me just put out a
We're back with another day of Wikipedia surfing with Harmony Woods—aka pasting "Special:Random" in the Wikipedia search bar (when I just typed that, the Ghost blogging interface tried to correct it to a dice emoji, which was nice 🎲) and clicking until you see a
I got a press invite to an interesting show last week—Joan As Police Woman (the alias of singer-songwriter Joan Wasser) was playing an intimate gig at the Cha Cha Lounge in Silver Lake. This invite was intriguing to me for three reasons: 1) I love a gig invite (I
