For a certain type of music enjoyer, owning a record store is perhaps the ultimate dream. A room of your own, filled to the brim with physical copies of your favorite tunes...the opportunity to listen to and talk about music all day....while hopefully making some $$$ on the way.
"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
Ooh it's a fresh new edition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their musicianship. Today we have Victor Nawebone, a Venezuelan recording artist who usually records experimental rock music under the project name El Café Atómico, and
Have you heard? Have you heard the news? I am accepting guest post submissions to I Enjoy Music! Here are submission guidelines. Today's guest post comes from Christopher Gadsden. I know Christopher from Twitter: that internet place where people love to joke, laugh and make friends; and also
The music you enjoy does not arrive at your ears in a vacuum. In addition to getting nicely composed, recorded, engineered, mixed, and mastered, music has plenty of media accompanying it. Like music videos...and album art! I've already done some interviews with music video makers (most recently
Be careful what you ask for Make sure it's really what you want Because your mind is made for thinking And energy follows thought — Willie Nelson Last November, I interviewed both ISOxo and Knock2, best friends from San Diego who are rising together in the EDM scene, for
Oh my goodness, it's another edition of Three Music Thingz, where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music making. In past editions, LA singer-songwriter Devon Thompson praised her Epiphone Casino guitar... ...New Hampshire synth-rock outfit The City View shouted out solitude... ...and NYC
I love music videos. A mini movie to accompany a song? Yes please. Previously on I Enjoy Music, I interviewed DC rock band Two Thumbs Down about the hand-rotoscoped video for their song "See You Later," and also went behind the scenes of Be Afraid's "
We are DEEP in 2024 music festival announcement season and every day there is a new poster for me to pore over. I believe music festivals are one of the most powerful music discovery tools there are — a distracted 30-second snippet of some streamer's preview will not make
We are BACK with a new lil edition of Three Music Thingz, the series where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Previously, punk rock princess Vi Viana praised the automatic drummer in Logic Pro, Scottish power-pop act The Terminal Buildings shouted out prolific songwriters
Readers of I Enjoy Music will know that I enjoy keytar very much. I love the vibes. I love the boldness of choosing a keytar over a regular keyboard. The swag of a keytar is unmatched. My previous keytar-themed interview was with Blind Equation's live keys player Jeffrey
Okay here's a band that I will not shut up about: Cheem! Cheem Cheem Cheem. Guilty Pleasure was one of my favorite records of 2022. I interviewed Sam Nazaretian and Skye Holden from the band for my newsletter last year (via a recommendation from my friend Jackie) and