The music you enjoy does not arrive at your ears in a vacuum. In addition to getting nicely composed, recorded, engineered, mixed, and mastered, music has plenty of media accompanying it. Like music videos...and album art! I've already done some interviews with music video makers (most recently
Be careful what you ask for Make sure it's really what you want Because your mind is made for thinking And energy follows thought — Willie Nelson Last November, I interviewed both ISOxo and Knock2, best friends from San Diego who are rising together in the EDM scene, for
Oh my goodness, it's another edition of Three Music Thingz, where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music making. In past editions, LA singer-songwriter Devon Thompson praised her Epiphone Casino guitar... ...New Hampshire synth-rock outfit The City View shouted out solitude... ...and NYC
I love music videos. A mini movie to accompany a song? Yes please. Previously on I Enjoy Music, I interviewed DC rock band Two Thumbs Down about the hand-rotoscoped video for their song "See You Later," and also went behind the scenes of Be Afraid's "
We are DEEP in 2024 music festival announcement season and every day there is a new poster for me to pore over. I believe music festivals are one of the most powerful music discovery tools there are — a distracted 30-second snippet of some streamer's preview will not make
We are BACK with a new lil edition of Three Music Thingz, the series where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Previously, punk rock princess Vi Viana praised the automatic drummer in Logic Pro, Scottish power-pop act The Terminal Buildings shouted out prolific songwriters
Readers of I Enjoy Music will know that I enjoy keytar very much. I love the vibes. I love the boldness of choosing a keytar over a regular keyboard. The swag of a keytar is unmatched. My previous keytar-themed interview was with Blind Equation's live keys player Jeffrey
Okay here's a band that I will not shut up about: Cheem! Cheem Cheem Cheem. Guilty Pleasure was one of my favorite records of 2022. I interviewed Sam Nazaretian and Skye Holden from the band for my newsletter last year (via a recommendation from my friend Jackie) and
Oooh we are back with another edition of Music Moots™, the series where I ask people I know from online or IRL — or maybe both — to recommend me a song that they have been enjoying lately, and then I blog about it. Past editions include pop culture queen Nicole Tremaglio
I was minding my business on Twitter as usual last night and then stopped dead in my scroll...what was this now...was someone tweeting about the 2019 Netflix movie Someone Great??? Yes, Keegan from Camp Trash brought up one of my favorite, deeply confusing music movie moments ever and
Ever since I read the memoir of Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine, who wrote about writing and recording the song "Crush 'Em" specifically to celebrate hockey and hockey fans ("I love hockey, and I thought it would be cool to write something that might be played at
Hello friends. Last year at the beginning of the year, I started a newsletter called The Molly Zone where I interviewed music people, and then those music people recommended me other people to interview. Then I realized I had a lot of...opinions about stuff...so I started writing other