This past Sunday was a Couch Day. I love a good Couch Day, I'm on the record about that. Well, this one wasn't an entire Couch Day—the morning was spent dropping friends off at Los Angeles International Airport, and some chores needed doing—but a
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 Maneater! Maneater are DJ On and Lindsay Stewart, from Vancouver. They put out
Per usual on I Enjoy Music, we love to celebrate the creative work that accompanies good music: photos, videos, comics, things of this nature. Today on the blog we have an interview with rune puzzles, the musical alias of the Brooklyn-based soundsmith Ian Lavely. The music of rune puzzles can,
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 Pictoria Vark! Pictoria Vark is Victoria Park—I am never going
A lot of music in one place: that's music blogging, baby. 444, by hemlock12 track albumhemlockhemlock 444 - hemlock I read the newsletter GUNKYARD from the NYC showpaper GUNK and they recently published a lyrical tour diary from Carolina Chauffe, who records as hemlock. It painted a gorgeous
"I knew that I wanted this to be the first song of an album. I just didn't know what the album was yet." That's Kaffo, the Sensei talking about making "Congruency," the first song on his debut album Just Trust Me, which
Last week I got an email from a freelance client who told me they needed some help from me. They'd asked ChatGPT to do a job that I normally did, and now they weren't sure whether the work was accurate. I was asked to read over
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's recommender is singer-songwriter Ariel Hirschhorn, who records as Hey Rel in Providence, Rhode
I have three sisters and we're all very close in age. The younger two are even twins, which is about as close in age as two related people can get. Because we were four children all close in age, we needed to all do the same things. Four
Hello, welcome to another I Enjoy Music megamix of musical moments. music for slurpees (musical moments megamix 6)Hellloooo it’s another blessed musical moments megamix. Going to try to do these a little more often and send them as emails...making more efforts to unplug a little from the
I Enjoy Music of course, but I also Enjoy all the art that goes with them: Album Art, Single Art, Promo Photos, and of course Music Videos. Today we've got a lil interview with from ET Boys, a South Florida-based alt pop duo of brothers Tacboy (who writes
I'm hobbling down the sidewalk, jabbering away about my youth with my granddaughter at my side. "And when I was a teenager, all of the coolest musicians lived, not in New York or London or Los Angeles, but in Omaha Nebraska." "Sure Grandma, let'
Music People
I cannot overstate how important YouTube is to my personal music enjoyment. It's where I go to search stuff like "[new band or song I like] live]" "[old music video I need to see for 1,000th time]" "[favorite band] on [late night
Hellloooo it's another blessed musical moments megamix. Going to try to do these a little more often and send them as emails...making more efforts to unplug a little from the social media zone and start surfing the web once more. The most important thing to announce before
Music Listeners
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's recommender is the band Vivian, who describe themselves as "Trans Shoegaze Emo
Music People
I enjoy music and I enjoy the creative stuff that has to happen for music to enter the world. Like cover art for songs! Therefore, today I'm interviewing designer/illustrator Pete Gamlen about the art he created for "Headphones" by EZ Company. Headphones (feat. Musique Chienne)
Music Molly
Things feel pretty bleak right now. Executive orders are terrorizing trans people, and also I guess everyone who receives any kind of help or money from the federal government. The president is cruel and his cruelty creates unimaginable stupidity. People are becoming conservative because they're dying to say
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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 our recommender is the band Rebounder, a band "made up of brothers [Dylan Chenfeld
sup guys — how bout a guest post for your enjoyment? Here's previous I Enjoy Music guester Andrew Crowley of Slouching Towards McDonaldland, on the pre-algorithm forces that shaped his music taste... Living in the age of the algorithm sucks. It removes the human element of a very human
My ardor for BIG WEIRD POP MESS meant that the millisecond after I saw the trailer for Better Man—that's the Robbie Williams-as-monkey biopic, if you've been living under a rock, or also if you've been living a completely normal life in a house
Music Molly
We were driving away from our place in Northeast L.A. and the sky was the color of rust. The power had been out all night but we'd been up, listening to news reports via the hand crank radio I'd literally just bought from the Red
Music Listeners
A marathon post to wrap up this series! Yeehaw! Part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight, part nine, part ten, part eleven, part twelve, part thirteen, part fourteen. "Life Is" - Jessica Pratt from Patrick Mahan (Carefully Curated) "
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So close to the end!! What a ride!! Part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight, part nine, part ten, part eleven, part twelve, part thirteen. "A Backyard" - Stay Inside from Winter Boyfriend "The tune gets stuck in
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Let's, rock, let's, rock, today. Part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight, part nine, part ten, part eleven, part twelve. "THE END" - Bilmuri from Tom Bown "Hard to pick just one song from