Music Molly
One year of musicpulsestudios in the books!! Wow! I wanted to write something to celebrate this 12-month milestone, and to look at what I'm trying to do with this internet publication going forward. You cannot escape my metablogging. A year ago I published a couple of
Music Makers
My my my, 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 Ciemme! Aka Charlotte Mulvey, a singer/songwriter in Minneapolis. I last chatted with her for my old newsletter The Molly
Music Molly
Greetings earthlings. I'm working on a consistent kind of newsletter format for the blog in addition to just plain blogging. Something that won't clutter yr inboxes too severely, mostly a recap of recent posts, but with a bit of freestyle content and "news you can
Music Makers
Welcome 2 a brand new Blueprint Playlist—where I ask artists with new music out to share five(ish) songs that have inspired or informed the songs in some way or another. This is what we call a twofer. Double the bands, double the fun. 'Cause we have two
Music Makers
Oooooh yeah, 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 Las Nubes! Las Nubes are a Miami-based group: Ale Campos on guitar and vocals, Emile Milgrim on drums, plus Alumine Soto
Music Makers
Welcome to another behind-the-scenes-of-an-album-rollout interview! God I love doing these! Last time I talked to Micah Leith of 2:00 AM Wake Up Club, who spoke about their long and winding road to the unified release of their dreams: combining the two halves of their album Mall Fantasy after several
Music Makers
Golly gee, 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 Animal Byproducts! A four-piece from Manchester and Leeds making, in their words, "twiddly trumpet punk," the band just put
Music Listeners
I write to you, May 20th 2024, feeling something stirring in the air. The grasses are rustling, the crows are cawing, the meerkats are looking around with great interest. We've been at a weird point in popular culture for a while where, thanks to the decay of legacy
Music Molly
Yesterday a curious video came across my desk (Twitter feed). A young white man who looks a bit like Steve Albini's zoomer son stood with his head poking out of a vehicle that was parked in the middle of what appeared to be the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan.
Music Makers
My my my, 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 Midheaven! Midheaven is a Los Angeles-based duo comprised of Andy DeLuca and Sarah Eiseman, whose Instagram bio—"dreampop girlfriend
Music People
Wow, we're plowing through so many music-adjacent art forms on this blog. Album art? Yes. Music videos? Yes. Music-based comics? Yes. Now I want to devote today's blog to another music-adjacent artform: the fancam. To my understanding, there are multiple video formats that technically fit under
Music Molly
I am freshly returned from the Kilby Block Party music festival, slightly crisp with sunburn and foggy of mind. The fest took place in gorgeous Salt Lake City, Utah, home of the Kilby Court all-ages music venue (the fest commemorated 25 years of venue operations) and also of the longest