Music People
Independent music labels! I love them!! The people who run the businesses that help get good tunes out into the world should be honored. And so I am doing today in this blog post, which features the label flower sounds. Run by Jon Shina out of the great state of
Music Makers
As soon as MIDI Bunny's "Cecily falls from the Sky Tower into HELL (or, Falling Down Part 3)" hit my inbox earlier this year, I knew there was something special happening. The self-described "Furry fifth wave emo internet band," led by the duo Cecily
Music Listeners
A growing 'content vertical' on I Enjoy Music seems to be deep dives on music moments / trends / communities from people who have spent plenty of time in the trenches—like this big report on jam bands (and the internet conversations surrounding them) by Jerry Koenigsmark: stand by your
Music Molly
Hello, it's me. I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to read...my blog. Hello to the blog readers and the newsletter subscribers. It seems like a good time to hit you with a Musical Moments Megamix...last time I wrote about enjoying
Music Molly
The people in front of me in the Sphere security line fucked up. Dead & Co had already started playing, you could hear tinkling guitars piped all through the interior of the venue. We were the last stragglers in the TSA-esque experience that precedes all large format concerts now, and
Music Listeners
'It's been awhile' but we are back with a new edition of Music Moots™, the blogseries where I ask people I know either from the internet or real life to recommend me a song they like, and then I listen to the song and then write
Music People
I continue on in my quest to hear from the creative people who help get music up and out and wherever it needs to go. Album art illustrator, music video director, music festival booker, record store owner, these are just a few of the people making music Work. A moment
Music Makers
Holy mackerel, 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 Julia-Sophie! Julia-Sophie is an Anglo-French artist—she's based in Oxford and grew up between there and Lyon—whose career
Music Makers
Maybe it's my early-and-often consumption of the movie Almost Famous but I really romanticize the idea of "going on tour." The ultimate road trip, playing tunes across the land, getting weird and making friends as you go...doesn't that sound nice? I know the
Music Molly
I was doing my horrid morning scroll on Twitter and came across a chunk of text that displeased me (this happens often on Twitter...it's what keeps me coming back, the displeasure...): As it turns out, this chunk of text came from a long Freddie deBoer newsletter about
Music Makers
Cowabunga, 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 Noo Jii! Noo Jii is the musical identity of Paul Hannouche, who put out a beautiful experimental pop album called Vision Virgo
Music Molly
Welcome to another edish of the I Enjoy Music newsletter. To preview the format of the newsletter, in an Axios breakin'-it-down style, we have: a little bit of writing around a new-to-me song by an unfamiliar artist (last time I did that with Zimmer90, "What Love Is&