People who do stuff related to music.
Music Makers
As a lady with an interest in the intersection of music and technology, I was pleased to see an article about the digital music platform Nina Protocol pop up on my Twitter feed this past spring. "I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Nina Protocol is
Music People
Independent music labels! I love them!! The people who run the businesses that help get good tunes out into the world should be honored. And so I am doing today in this blog post, which features the label flower sounds. Run by Jon Shina out of the great state of
Music People
I continue on in my quest to hear from the creative people who help get music up and out and wherever it needs to go. Album art illustrator, music video director, music festival booker, record store owner, these are just a few of the people making music Work. A moment
Music People
Concerts. Shows. Gigs. We love them, right? Yes we do. What if we all learned how to put them on ourselves? This is the very basic premise of Temporary State, a new non-profit organized by NYC do-it-yrself veteran Jordan Michael Iannucci, Hannah Pruzinsky and Ceci Sturman (the latter two run
Music Molly
I read an absolutely wild piece of music writing last week. Tavi Gevinson, original Girl Blogger and founder of influential online magazine Rookie, self-published a zine about Taylor Swift in April called Fan Fiction. A few outlets covered this event—Vulture interviewed Gevinson about it, and across the NY Mag
Music People
Festivals! I love them. How do they work?? It takes a hell of a lot of coordination to get a healthy handful of bands to play on the same day at the same location, as I learned when I interviewed DIY festival producer Conor Alan, who puts together Fauxchella every
Music People
Wow, we're plowing through so many music-adjacent art forms on this blog. Album art? Yes. Music videos? Yes. Music-based comics? Yes. Now I want to devote today's blog to another music-adjacent artform: the fancam. To my understanding, there are multiple video formats that technically fit under