new wave / new me

Life is long, and there is lots of music to listen to all the way through it, but there will always be a special place in my heart for the music I listened to as a young adult, having freshly landed in 'the real world'—much like a

Behind the 'Mall Fantasy' album rollout with 2:00AM Wake Up Call

The rollout of an album can often be an art form of its own, especially in this era of DIY digital music marketing. From Jimmy Montague's clarion call of "don't fuck me on this" in the lead-up to the release of his album Tomorrow&

Three Music Thingz with Tame Werewolf

What's up???? We've got a brand new edition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today's feature is Tame Werewolf, aka Keivan Hosseini, an electronic musician from Iran whose tunes are pure

Three Music Thingz with Needy Beast

Great googly moogly, it's another edition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today's feature is Needy Beast, aka Adam Moerder. Adam previously played in the Brooklyn band Mr. Dream, and has contributed to

Oracular Spectacular 17 years later

On Saturday night, after hanging out for a while with our friends and their three-year-old son (you ever read Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile? Not bad) my husband and I went Out for a bit. We went to the venue Zebulon, where an indie-ish dance party ("New Wave, Post-Punk, Psych, Pop,

The Music Enjoyer: Jasmine Danielle

"The Music Enjoyer" is a series in which I ask music-oriented people for a bit of their musical DNA — the music they listened to when they were younger, the music they listen to now — and also for some practical info, like their favorite ways to find music and

Three Music Thingz with AVI

HELLO! It's another edition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians to tell me about three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we've got AVI, a Canadian musician who produces deeply vibey electronic music. AVI just put out an EP, EQUINOX,

caught in 4k

John of John's Music Blog recently posted a roundup of his favorite live show videos of the last year. I click on pretty much anything linked in JMB, just because I know it will likely lead me somewhere funky and freaky, so I delved into quite a few

Three Music Thingz with Super Cassette

Well well well, if it isn't another edition of Three Music Thingz, where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we've got Max Gerlock, who plays in Super Cassette, out of Oakland California. Super Cassette makes earnest, lively indie rock

Krissanthemum likes “name one thing in this photo” music

Happy Friday!! Wow we did it: five days of I Enjoy Music (Stoned), a themed week where I interviewed five musicians about how weed enhances their music-listening habits (not to mention their music-making habits). Yesterday's interview was with Mira Tsarina of Iffin, who explained the importance of repeat

Iffin picks apart the layers of 'Loveless'

Woweeeee it's day 4 of I Enjoy Music (Stoned), aka a weed-themed week where I am publishing interviews with musicians about their THC-infused listening habits. Yesterday I talked to Maneka's Devin McKnight about the special suitability of Future to high listening, why it's fun

Maneka thinks "Charge of the Brown Recluse" sounds nice really loud

Thanks for continuing to hang in for I Enjoy Music (Stoned), a weed-themed week on I Enjoy Music. All this week, I'm posting interviews with musicians about their stoned music listening habits. Because weed 'n' music go together like cottage cheese and chili crisp. Or am