You thought I was done? No way. I continue my journey to the center of your favorite songs of 2023. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 to catch u up.) This is one of the most varied lineups yet. I'm having a ball. Sleep
The personal hit parade continues. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 if yer catching up.) Wouldn't it be funny if I pump-faked and instead wrote a Maestro review below instead? "Don't threaten me with a good time," you will all say in
I am still (gingerly, tenderly) listening to some of your favorite songs of 2023! Revisit part 1, part 2, and part 3 at their various URLs! MJ Lenderman - "Rudolph" (from @todoestademoda) "I wouldn't be in the seminary if I could be with you."
I can't be stopped. Here are blurbs about songs 21 - 30 in my quest to listen to 100 of your favorite songs from 2023. (Read part 1...read part 2...the links will show u the way.) Spirit Night - "Country Roads" (from @Boringstein) I
We are so back with part 2 of ME listening to YOUR absolute favorite songs of 2023. (Here was part 1.) Let's get to it... Carly Rae Jepsen - "Come Over" (from @rigagolden) An interesting curse for Carly Rae Jepsen, to put out b-sides that hit
Every year inevitably ends, and I realize that, as much music I listened to, there was so much more that I just totally missed out on. So for this blog, rather than share my own "top" music or "best" albums of 2023, I thought I would
So last week I went to see Wonka with some pals. It was good! I liked it a lot, especially with the enhancement of a weed gummy, and especially because I snuck a single See's Candy (milk chocolate butterscotch square) into the theater, to deploy at the time
I Enjoy Music is a blog about enjoying music. If you have read the blog, you know I like tackling music enjoyment from many angles. I love asking musicians about their various music-making processes; I love going to see live shows and writing about the live show experience from the
We are so back with another edition of Three Music Thingz, the series in which I ask music people for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Any ol' thing will do. Today we have Vi Viana, who fronts the excellent indie punk band Gutless (founded in Gainesville,
I love music festival season, and I love the time before music festival season starts when all the lineup posters come out and everyone gets themselves into a real tizzy. Yass headliner. Boo undercard. Idk who any of these small print bands are...omg I'm so old. I
Do you know about Gender Warfare??? Ohhhh you need to know about Gender Warfare. I interviewed the London-based band for The Alternative earlier this year about their "queercore hardcore girlcore" music; in March they released Bridging Prescription, a glitchy, breakbeat-littered, distortion-blasted collection of "B sides, pre sides,
I interviewed Monty Cime for my newsletter earlier this year, to mark the release of her blazing EP Laurels Of The End of History. Despite its six-song length, Laurels feels sprawling, touching on influences from chamber pop to freak folk to psych rock, with an astonishing number of instruments in