Music Makers
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
Music Molly
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
Music Makers
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
Music Makers
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
Music Makers
OOOO we have something exciting on the site today—that's right—I Enjoy Music is proud to introduce a new tune and music video from Krissanthemum. You might remember Krissanthemum (aka Krissy Lassiter) from the world famous I Enjoy Music (Stoned) series where I interviewed stoner musicians about
Music Molly
First thing's first, get into some I Enjoy Music Videos if you dare...cool stuff on there from bands like Dagwood and Hotel Decor... I Enjoy Music VideosINDIE MUSIC VIDEO CHANNEL PLAYING COOL VIDEOS BY EXCELLENT ARTISTS, 24/7/365, ON THE WORLD WIDE WEBI Enjoy Music Videos
Music Makers
[I Enjoy Music Videos is live, right this second, here—it's an INDIE MUSIC VIDEO CHANNEL PLAYING COOL VIDEOS BY EXCELLENT ARTISTS, 24/7/365, ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB] I grew up watching a great deal of televised talent shows and reality competition shows—you are reading
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 Comprador! That's the musical alias of Charlie D'Ardenne, the Philadelphia-based musician who recently put out*
Music Molly
The Bright Eyes show at the Hollywood Bowl was the first show in a long about which I couldn't immediately barf out a blog post. Seeing Conor Oberst + a big ol' band play through his fraternal twin classics I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
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I have had a blast launching I Enjoy Music Videos, the pure audiovisual sibling of the I Enjoy Music blog empire. Already I have been sent some premium new music videos and it pleases me greatly to have a place to put them. One of my goals of this blog
The phrase I use most often for how I feel after going out dancing is that "my brain has gone through the washing machine." James Murphy really did have it right when he talked about dancing yrself clean—the combination of darkness/stimulating lights, unpredictable music, and maybe
Welcome back to the I Enjoy Music newsletter. Happy to have you here. First a reminder that I Enjoy Music Videos is live, and you can always visit ienjoymusicvideos.net for a selection of music videos from indie artists...the website is there for your enjoyment. Ok onward... burning virtual
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 Malaphor! It's the Oakland, CA-based project of Brendan Casey, Patrick
I Enjoy Music now has a special sibling website, I Enjoy Music Videos. If you enjoy music videos, you'll like it very much... Music videos...boy do I enjoy 'em. And when I saw the video for a single off the new CAVS solo record (that'
I Enjoy Music now has a special sibling website, I Enjoy Music Videos. If you enjoy music videos, you'll like it very much... I love music videos... and also, I love cats. This love is both ancient and quite new. Growing up, my sisters and I didn'
What's better than one music website? Two music websites! Please meet I Enjoy Music Videos, live on ienjoymusicvideos.net. I Enjoy Music Videos - indie music video channelI Enjoy Music Videos It's more or less a regularly updated embedded YouTube playlist of music videos from independent artists,
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 Stay-at-Home Cousin! Aka the musical persona of Maya Gaster
Sometimes, very occasionally, I forget that I live in Los Angeles, a town full of people vying for fame and fortune in several different sectors of the entertainment industry, and who are therefore extremely good-looking...and then I am reminded of it when I go to a show like
A while ago I put feelers out for folks who would be interested in doing an I Enjoy Music photo club. This would entail emailing me a digital photo they'd taken at a concert, plus a short written backstory explaining why the photo meant something to them. In
Welcome back to another megamix, which you are probably receiving via email—but if you're reading it from the blog, which I just typo'd as "bog", think about signing up for the newsletter, which means the megamix would come straight to your door, signed
A popular type of prompt online is asking people to brag about artists they saw before they got huge. People will gush about seeing Tame Impala as an opening act, or Wilco back at Maxwells, or [big indie artist] in a basement, or [not as big indie artist] at a
