Tel Aviv’s Lara Snow “tells all” during CMJ week 2015!
The annual week that is the CMJ Music Marathon, (formally known as College Music Journal,) is an unrelenting twister of events that indeed leave one…
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…
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…
Fire up the band and lead us to indie-pendence!
This piece was inspired by a question posed via tweet, by web designer, Ross Barber (@ElectricKiwi) Independent artists need to work together and support one…
We need to be more prudent about choosing our “exes”
Some of the recent music business related headlines that have fluttered about many social media dashboards presented a contradictory set of approaches for that cornerstone of…
Pick a card, any card! (but don’t show it to me!)
Hey look, with this new deposition development, Justin Bieber is hoarding headline space yet again. That is all the superficial introduction needed to dive right into today’s…
America’s Next Top (Musician) Model or, “Symply” sultry instrument(alists)
There is never a deficiency of things on the web to spark “the next thing to write.” Sometimes the initial premises I conjure up sound so…
“Swimming with the fishes”: Creativity, shock and the half life of grief
Today’s title comes with an addendum: “Public outcries against references to “significant” deaths: An unintended red herring to what the offended are really angry or upset…
If your heart’s not IN, you’re selling OUT
Music: a hobby, a study, a combination of vibrations, a business, a product or an emotional refuge. Depending on how one chooses to view this “thing”…
Play a “game of thrones” and get your kid thrown out of good graces
We start the month with a topic that is far from new and far from the first time someone has typed out words on it for…