Every year inevitably ends, and I realize that, as much music I listened to, there was so much more that I just totally missed out on. So for this blog, rather than share my own "top" music or "best" albums of 2023, I thought I would
So last week I went to see Wonka with some pals. It was good! I liked it a lot, especially with the enhancement of a weed gummy, and especially because I snuck a single See's Candy (milk chocolate butterscotch square) into the theater, to deploy at the time
I Enjoy Music is a blog about enjoying music. If you have read the blog, you know I like tackling music enjoyment from many angles. I love asking musicians about their various music-making processes; I love going to see live shows and writing about the live show experience from the
We are so back with another edition of Three Music Thingz, the series in which I ask music people for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Any ol' thing will do. Today we have Vi Viana, who fronts the excellent indie punk band Gutless (founded in Gainesville,
I love music festival season, and I love the time before music festival season starts when all the lineup posters come out and everyone gets themselves into a real tizzy. Yass headliner. Boo undercard. Idk who any of these small print bands are...omg I'm so old. I
Do you know about Gender Warfare??? Ohhhh you need to know about Gender Warfare. I interviewed the London-based band for The Alternative earlier this year about their "queercore hardcore girlcore" music; in March they released Bridging Prescription, a glitchy, breakbeat-littered, distortion-blasted collection of "B sides, pre sides,
I interviewed Monty Cime for my newsletter earlier this year, to mark the release of her blazing EP Laurels Of The End of History. Despite its six-song length, Laurels feels sprawling, touching on influences from chamber pop to freak folk to psych rock, with an astonishing number of instruments in
WELCOME BACK to Three Music Thingz, where I ask music people for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Thing vibes. Thingmanship. Today: we have The Terminal Buildings. The Terminal Buildings sound like a band of many, but in fact are just one person named Finlay, who records everything
There's been a hole in the scene. We're living in a vibrant and multi-genred time. We're drowning in new interpretations of '90s slacker indie rock. We have the riotous palette of hyperpop to play with. We have mutinous rap-rock revivals and sexy techno
Oi oi! Welcome back to a brand-new edition of Three Music Thingz, where I ask music people for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we've got three thing-style picks from Those Dogs, a punk band hailing from western North Carolina. Here's what I
Like many people who maintain an interest in the DIY rock scene, my Twitter cornucopia overflowed with news, pictures and videos from Fauxchella VI this past October. Fauxchella is a music festival series put on by the Summit Shack, a DIY venue / event production / media "conglomerate" out of
Ooh, this is a fun blog today. A blog straight from the mailbag. Recently, a song was emailed to me with the subject line "Funky dance song by Loco Domingo called It's Loco Time." I was immediately intrigued and pressed play on the .wav attachment posthaste.