(Music as a) charity starts at home: A response letter to David Greenwald
Given the many holidays, winter months and an inevitable slew of charitable requests coming in the near future, why not see where the conversation of “music…
Six Scorpios sing in a shamrock themed bar…
While the title of this page might have people insisting a joke is about to follow, this is not the case. In fact, the description could…
Wanted: A PROperly designed royalty payment system
Some thoughts on a recent upswell of news about local businesses coming under fire from US PROs: Exhibit A: Bauhaus Kaffee Exhibit B: Nine separate businesses…
Remembering to band together, when you’re a band together
It being Election Day here in the U.S., a day devoted to the concept of collective decision making and balancing subjective choice with objective counts, now…
Musical score and four years ago…
Today, Throw the Dice and Play Nice turns four years old! This has been a particularly hectic, unpredictable and amazing year. Made new friends in…
There’s nothing better than talking up a band’s “Negative Qualities”
Don’t worry, this is no slanderous band rant. This all about the London, Ontario based, garage punk band, Single Mothers and their debut LP, “Negative…
Royal Blood at Webster Hall: A case of priceless concert contradiction
The age old idea of a “quick rise to fame” is something that stirs up a range of reactions, depending on the context in which said…
Get IN on the global street date or DIE.
Perhaps “die” is a bit strong of a consequence to say but, as a gentle reminder to those who have been reading here for a while,…
There’s “fun” and then there’s being “fundamentally cool”
It’s hard enough going through life trying to attain some definition of “majority acceptance” (especially in adolescence), to say nothing of the difficulty when one is…
Ghostly International Show: Christopher Willits, Beacon and Tycho
Even as someone more than waist-deep in the trenleverhes of the music industry, it’s always gratifying when an experience manages to strike my emotions in the…