Music Makers
Summer hit me like a semi truck last week. I was wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and black pants, went out to run an errand, and was like, oh shit...it's happening. Suddenly I wanted a popsicle. I wanted to go for a long drive and blast some
Music Makers
Welcome 2 a brand new Blueprint Playlist—where I ask artists with new music out to share five(ish) songs that have inspired or informed the songs in some way or another. Today we have Tigerblind—a solo singer-songwriter project from Cameron McCrary, who's based in Dallas, TX.
Music Makers
Heyyoooooo, 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've got Antenna93! Antenna93 are a four-piece (Trevor Yardley-Jones [guitar and vocals], Akira Satoh [guitar, vocals, miscellaneous], Derek Robinson [bass] and Michael
Music Molly
Sometimes it's fun to trace a particular musical enjoyment back to its origins. For example, why was I at the Cheekface show last week? Well... I'd seen the band name bantered around "music Twitter" a bit but did not investigate... ...then writer Jami Fowler
Music Listeners
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
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 Makers
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 Fataday Korngor! Fataday Korngor infuses his Philadelphia-based pop rock four-piece (rounded out with Gavin Fernandez on bass, Tim Jones on
Music Molly
One year of I Enjoy Music in the books!! Wow! I wanted to write something to celebrate this 12-month milestone, and to look at what I'm trying to do with this internet publication going forward. You cannot escape my metablogging. A year ago I published a couple of
Music Makers
My my my, 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 Ciemme! Aka Charlotte Mulvey, a singer/songwriter in Minneapolis. I last chatted with her for my old newsletter The Molly
Music Molly
Greetings earthlings. I'm working on a consistent kind of newsletter format for the blog in addition to just plain blogging. Something that won't clutter yr inboxes too severely, mostly a recap of recent posts, but with a bit of freestyle content and "news you can
Music Makers
Welcome 2 a brand new Blueprint Playlist—where I ask artists with new music out to share five(ish) songs that have inspired or informed the songs in some way or another. This is what we call a twofer. Double the bands, double the fun. 'Cause we have two
Music Makers
Oooooh yeah, 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 Las Nubes! Las Nubes are a Miami-based group: Ale Campos on guitar and vocals, Emile Milgrim on drums, plus Alumine Soto