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 musicpulsestudios 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&
Music Makers
It's one of those June days in Los Angeles that features weather so pleasant it's almost boring, and I'm in the bar area of the downtown music venue The Moroccan Lounge, talking to Sasha McLeod, the musician known as Sycco, about the LSD trip
Music Makers
I find that if you are known among your friends as a music enjoyer, you are likely to become a sounding board for friends who send you links to new and intersting music. It's a good spot to be in. Case in point: a few weeks ago, my
Music Makers
Ooo la la, 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 Tall Mary! Tall Mary is a Vancouver-based noise punk band led by Cole Klassen that just put out a behemoth
Music Makers
I discovered the music of Canadian electronic artist Debby Friday, as ya do, through social media. Last year, she put out her debut studio album, Good Luck, an industrial-tinged alt-pop album with an almost tactile intensity to it throughout. Her latest single "To the Dancefloor" is, in a
Music Makers
Get outta town, 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 Miserable chillers! Miserable chillers is the musical identity of Miguel Gallego, who just put out an intriguing project called Great