I am almost done talking about Kilby Block Party. Almost!! But after a full hour-by-hour recap (including snack intake), plus interviews with hey, nothing and Josaleigh Pollett, I have one more thing I wanted to talk about on this blog, and that's a magical individual we encountered on
The 2020s have been a real trend particle accelerator so far—the Large Hadron Collider for quantum crazes, yr cottagecore and mob wife aesthetic and tomato girl summer and glazed donut face and hot rodent boyfriend. Unless you lived in a coastal metropolis, you used to have to wait for
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 dive! This is the musical persona of Cheyanne Sawyer, a singer-songwriter in
Historically on the blog, I'm simply a big fan of Salt Lake City-based singer-songwriter Josaleigh Pollett. So when I saw she was on the Kilby Block Party bill, I rubbed my hands together w/ glee. And I asked if they would be down to do an interview for
I am terrible with anniversaries but I realized as of May 22nd, I have been blogging on I Enjoy Music Dot Net for two years! A year ago I did a blogiversary post. No big message this time other than I'm having lots of fun, and that connecting
I had a blast at Kilby Block Party. You can read all about it in the recap. And one of my favorite sets of the weekend was delivered by hey, nothing, the emo-folk duo from Atlanta who've skyrocketed in both artistry and popularity since forming in high school
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 Gnat! Aka the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Natalie Antonia Rezek, who just released new
I am from the East Coast of the United States of America. My ancestors arrived there from places like Ireland, the Netherlands, and France (via Canada) several hundred years ago. They all made it to upstate New York and thought, here is a good place to settle down. There was
![[bravely] i liked the weeknd's new movie](/content/images/size/w600/2025/05/THE-WEEKND.png)
In 2022, Canadian singer Abel Tesfaye opened his mouth to sing at a Los Angeles stadium show and nothing came out. A true nightmare-worthy scenario. I still have dreams about botching my high school theater productions in various ways, and I wake up in a cold sweat each time. The
There is a wonderful feeling when you are introduced to a band through a contemporaneous album, and then you realize the album was preceded by several other great albums you have yet to experience. This is a feeling I felt in 2004 when, as a high school freshman, I borrowed
Here's a new megamix, with anti-skip protection. A reminder to hit up the MAILBAG - email me (ienjoymusicblog@gmail.com) with what you're listening to these days, musical memories, anything you think would be ripe for the blogging. wazzup mashup at the open streets There'
I started bugging out a third of the way through Lady Gaga's weekend 2 Coachella set, somewhere around "Perfect Celebrity" and "Disease," because I was thinking about giving birth. Oh, that's gonna be so weird. Dangerous, even. And then they hand you
Music Makers
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
Music Makers
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
Music Makers
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,
Music Makers
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
Music Listeners
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
Music Makers
"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
Music Molly
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
Music Makers
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
Music Molly
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
Music Molly
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
Music Molly
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'