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We are (so) back with a brand new BLUEPRINT PLAYLIST. This is a playlist created by an artist or band with some new music out, consisting of five or so songs that have inspired that music in some way. Today manning the playlist...cursor? joystick? is Dagwood, a New Haven,
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Oh shit it's another guest post. Call this blog Miley Cyrus on Black Mirror cuz we are On A Roll. We just had Harlan Talib Ockey delving into a possible 2024 blues rock re-revival... blues rock boom ‘n’ bustA growing ‘content vertical’ on I Enjoy Music seems to
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A growing 'content vertical' on I Enjoy Music seems to be deep dives on music moments / trends / communities from people who have spent plenty of time in the trenches—like this big report on jam bands (and the internet conversations surrounding them) by Jerry Koenigsmark: stand by your
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'It's been awhile' but we are back with a new edition of Music Moots™, the blogseries where I ask people I know either from the internet or real life to recommend me a song they like, and then I listen to the song and then write
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I am super excited to share a guest post today by Andrew Crowley, who publishes an amazing newsletter called Slouching Towards McDonaldland, about a band I previously didn't know, but was absolutely glad to learn more about: The Vulgar Boatmen. Billed by Andrew as "The Postal Service
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It's Fourth of July time. Happy birthday, America, we are doing so good, we are truly killing it. In my opinion, as the sun beats down on us and the hot dogs sizzle, now is the perfect time to publish a mega-treatise on the State of the American
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Surf's up, one...more...time! ["Wipeout" drum solo begins] We're wrapping up our week of Wikipedia surfing with Harmony Woods (for the still-uninitiated...that's pasting "Special:Random" in the Wikipedia search bar and clicking until you see a page related
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We're back with another day of Wikipedia surfing with Harmony Woods—aka pasting "Special:Random" in the Wikipedia search bar (when I just typed that, the Ghost blogging interface tried to correct it to a dice emoji, which was nice 🎲) and clicking until you see a
Music Listeners
How to find new-to-you music? Let Mr. Spotify decide for you? Read the Pitched Fork? Ask your mom what she's vibing on these days? Give up and let autoplay take the wheel? How about trying something different...and exciting...that uses the power of the internet and the
Music Molly
I try to avoid feeling too parasocial about my pop stars but I have to say it: I'm proud of Charli XCX. She must be feeling incredible right now in the wake of the release of Brat. A spiky Roman phalanx of fans flooding their social media timelines
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On the first of the month, or the weekday closest to it, I publish "The Music Enjoyer," which is a content 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
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I write to you, May 20th 2024, feeling something stirring in the air. The grasses are rustling, the crows are cawing, the meerkats are looking around with great interest. We've been at a weird point in popular culture for a while where, thanks to the decay of legacy