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
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9) Oh my goodness, this series is at last coming to an end. I listened to 6 hours and 30 minutes of music, and wrote almost 14,000 words about it. Through this
Holy moly, we're almost done with this blogging exercise. It has been a very rewarding journey. I assuredly will be coming away from this experience with at least a dozen under-explored or unexplored artists to dig into. Music is social!! There will be one more part - Part
LET'S KEEP IT ROLLING TIME'S A TICKING MORE SONGS FROM YOU TO HEAR (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7) underscores & gabby start - "Locals (Girls like us)" (from @tracesauveur) Oh...ahh.......this is the shit
We are veering dangerously close to the end of 2023 and I still have 40 more songs to blog about!! Ahh!! So let's do another ten...right...now..... (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6) University Drive - "Eraser Days" (from