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 Half Nelson! Operating out of Louisville, Kentucky, the band—Ann Gilly on guitar,
Music Makers
In 2024, I went to an event thrown by Sunday Brunch Collective and sat at a table—could you call it a 'kiosk'? might be stealing Kiosk Valor to do so—with a sign in front of me, asking to talk about music. It was a great success.
Music Makers
I get so excited about new music from Ziemba that I feel like the artist name should be spelled and said with an exclamation point: Ziemba! I've been a fan of René Kladzyk's musical project since interviewing her for The Alternative—that chat was about the
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 Zachshots! The NYC duo of Zach Galsky and Annika Haakonsen, who also play
Music People
Recently, my TikTok FYP blessed me with a video that seemed designed specifically for me to enjoy: a 21-year-old filmmaker named Hank Beaudoin, newly obsessed with LCD Soundsystem, went to a bunch of their 2025 Knockdown Center residency shows, then spent a whopping sum ($8K, to be exact)
Music Molly
I went to Olivia Rodrigo's inaugural one-day festival, Daisy Chain Fields, this past weekend. I wrote about it for Consequence, my first piece there: Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Showed the Power of a Girls-to-the-Front FestivalOlivia Rodrigo’s inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival
Music Makers
We are so back with another rendition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we have Buttchug 69! Originally formed in Columbia, Missouri (and now living all over the U.S.), this three-piece indie rock
Music Molly
When the MTV Video Music Awards announced the nominees for Best New Artist, my favorite podcast Who? Weekly said it all by simply retweeting the @PopBase tweet of their names with no commentary. As a deep-fried millennial whose pop cultural consciousness-raising came pretty much directly from watching the
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 Dan Boeckner! A Canadian indie rock legend who has played in some incredible
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I ENJOY MUSIC VIDEOS! Here are some that I have enjoyed lately. "Love Is In The Rain" - Lane Love me some Lane. "Summer's here and there and everywhere /I can't complain" - yes! Wow, this is their first video—a collage affair directed
Much has been made of our current urban culture of line waiting. Frozen yogurt, matcha, pop-ups where you can try new beauty products, limited edition Trader Joes miniature tote bags. When I was in New York a few months ago, a street in Soho was shut down and segmented
The Ray Of Light album was the first Madonna album that came out after I started caring about and remembering music. I had already been listening to '80s Madonna since I was a kid—True Blue was one of the only albums I had on cassette, I would often
Sunday evening at Osheaga I couldn't stop crying! First I caught the end of Clipse's set and they played "The Birds Don't Sing" which is about the deaths of Pusha T and Malice's parents. Their visuals for that song were
We are so back with another rendition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we have Josaleigh Pollett! Pollett is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based singer-songwriter and a longtime fave of the I Enjoy
A new premiere on I Enjoy Music (and I Enjoy Music Videos) awaits, and it rips. Walk with me... ...a while back, I interviewed the filmmaker Kyle Garrett about the video he did for Car Colors, the current musical identity of Charles Bissell of The Wrens... behind the music video:
It was 2006 and I was sixteen in Burlington, Vermont. If you needed to track me down, you could generally find me in the sale section of Urban Outfitters, looking for a $4 t-shirt that would make me feel 2% cooler than I was. I had an older sister
We are so back with another rendition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we have Super Steve! That's the six-piece nerd rock band led by L.A.'s own Steve Delamater.
I find the "compilation of clips shot while going on tour" style of music video to be so poignant. Besides providing evidence of life lived in person—going to places, hanging out with people, being Outside—there's an intentionality and commitment that comes with making such
2026, we're all just here doing our best. Different countries are playing soccer. Basketball just wrapped up with great results for the Knicks. Madonna put out an amazing album, she should be very proud of herself. Meanwhile me, my finger ever on the pulse, my consciousness mind-melding
There's something magical about being in a smaller crowd where every single person in the crowd is a superfan. It's the opposite of a music festival experience, where there's a shitload of people but very little loyalty. Everyone at the Patrick Wolf show came
Quick question, what is in the water in the greater Chicago area?? Because this city continues to produce a disproportionate amount of the world's weirdest and most fun art. Fire-Toolz is one of the most interesting artists of the past decade...Cocojoey has been throwing down...the
