Back with more carefully quantified music discourse...related to an important (yet ultimately unanswerable) question: Best American Band? If we were to reduce the criteria to an American band that has composed a song called "We're An American Band" it would be a knock-down drag-out fight
Got an email from Mitski HQ today...she's back with a song called "Bug Like an Angel" and a new album called The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We? With a humming gospel choir that comes in the first time like an electric fly swatter
Wow the week had barely begun before the Music Discourse Machine came to life and started making loud mechanical chugging noises. All across the web, people have been sharing their opinions about two American bands: The Grateful Dead and Big Thief. Big Thief discourse arrived via Julian Towers's
Not sure if you're aware of this or not but it's hot in Southern California in the summer. Allegedly it's hot here most of the time, but especially in the meat of July, and during an El Niño year to boot, temps are soaring.
Recently I saw Sam from the great band Cheem talking about the difficulty of producing good music videos right now on Twitter (or is it X? lol I want 2 d*e) and in the mentions of the tweet, the DC-based DIY rock band band Two Thumbs Down shared their
I don't believe in guilty pleasures in general, but as the exception proves the rule, there is one pleasure in my life that I would categorize as guilty: listening to The Chainsmokers live sets on YouTube. I know, I know. "The Chainsmokers" is shorthand for a
I am a recent convert to the Time Crisis lifestyle (after finally making the jump from Spotify Premium to Apple Music), and on a recent TC episode, Ezra Koenig pointed out that the Jonas Brothers' sassy vocal delivery on "Waffle House" reminded him of male K-pop vocals.
If all of us on the internet are "surfing the web," Katie McTigue, who plays music as Pacing, has been churning up some sweet waves. She continually finds new, incredible delivery systems for her idiosyncratic indie-pop tunes: writing Spotify links on a banana, or adorning a CD with
Maybe it's because I'm a child of the 1990s and came of age at a time when people were trying to make music that sounded like it was the future (because the future was "now"), but one of my new-music-bloodhound tendencies is to seek
Ah, another edition of Music Moots, where I ask someone I know (either from IRL or URL) to recommend me a song they've been listening to lately, and then I listen to it and I write about it. Fion, aka sadstab, is an artist, tattoo artist, record store
We all know what music is. One way to think about music is "a collection of sounds that happen over the course of some period of time." But some of those sounds at certain periods of time are especially interesting, and this type of blog post — a music
"You are a human being and you deserve this." So intones saxophonist Justin Comer before kicking off a performance...a live performance...a live jazz performance...a live experimental jazz performance...a live experimental jazz performance in Iowa City this past spring, as part of ensemble BCJsPs. “Thanks,