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
Music Makers
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
Music Makers
Awooo, it's 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 Mt Fog! A band, or as they describe themselves, a "conscious mycelial network" in Seattle, WA, Mt Fog are Carolyn
Music Molly
This morning, I sipped a cup of delicious coffee from a DFA Records mug. When the pandemic happened, I decided to improve my homemade coffee game once and for all, so now I do the freshly ground beans and the weighed measurements and all that stuff. I got up at
Music Makers
Oouuuuoooouuu, it's 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 DI LEO! That's Phil Di Leo, who makes thoughtful and delicate indie-folk-pop in and around Oakland, California. I have written
Music Molly
Sometimes, the baby goes to bed, a martini is stirred/poured, and it's time to watch a bunch of music videos. I like to follow a trail of breadcrumbs, one video reminding me to watch another one. "GO" - Blackpink I started at the new Blackpink
Music People
I Enjoy Music and wow I Enjoy Album Art as well! How do you ever decide how to depict the visual component of your musical album? How do you figure out what goes on that square? Do you think that album art will ever start defaulting to 9x16 dimensions, to
Music Makers
Ooo baby, it's 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 Dialup Ghost! The Nashville rock band (Russ Finn, Jade McPeak, Jordan Smith, and Jack Holway) put out their fifth LP, Donkey
Music Molly
Last year I listened to Joanne Robertson's Blurrr because Ryley Walker said it had the "most ill guitar playing [he's] heard all year." Then I started to see that reddish purple album cover selfie everywhere. Something about my existence as a music writer is
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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 Midnight! A folk singer-songwriter in New Orleans, Midnight came to my attention when
Bonjour mes amis. Let's get into the mix... The Perennial Sound in the Valley I've really liked Perennial since I saw their album Art History getting talked up amongst my music loving internet peers. They take midcentury modern vibes and run them through the punk extruder.
Oh my gosh, it's 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 Best Actress! The NYC-based band brings together Georgia Pettit of Our Lady of Sorrows, Ryan Jantz of no big, and
Okay, probably not the world's fastest playlist, but it's certainly bursting with vim AND vigor. Thanks to everyone—including I Enjoy Music's musician friends and writer friends—for bringing the speed this week. I had so much fun! Also thanks to Wagner Koop for
Beep beeeeeeep speed week continues at a blistering pace. Today we've got the favorite songs of some of my favorite writers (and one of my favorite graphic designers) about music! All of whom you can find on my blogroll...don't forget about the blogroll... BlogrollThese are
Happy day three of speed week. Hope you are freakin ZOOMING by now. For today's post, I thought I'd ask some Friends of the Blog (bands/artists I have covered before, plus PR/label folks who are kind enough to send me fresh delicious new music
In no particular order other than the order I thought them up, here are just a handful of songs in my personal fast song hall of fame. But before we start, here's a fun fact I learned from googling around for a question I had about whether recorded
I enjoy all kinds of music—it's sort of the raison d'etre of this here blog—but a while ago, I realized that my favorite song on any given album would usually be the fastest one. My favorite song on my favorite Rilo Kiley album, Take
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 Sharkey Spice! Aka Erin Laura, an artist, writer and radio DJ who hosts
Maybe I would have been a practicing Catholic for longer if the music was any good. My memories of mass, like any child's memories, are of abject boredom. If we were kneeling, I'd amuse myself by surreptitiously licking the pew in front of me, such was
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 Molly Lambert! Molly is a journalist, podcast producer, and San Fernando Valley-raised bon
I can't help but love the 2016 nostalgia wave. Being nostalgic is one of my weaker points—your girl loves to REMINISCE—so when the nation gets together to nostalgize in harmony, I have to chime in. In the absence of monoculture, we can engage with monostalgia. I
