Brooke Moriber puts the message first with “This Town Made Us” acoustic performance
Singer-songwriter Brooke Moriber is an active force to be reckoned with in today’s music and entertainment industries. While a plethora of individuals can and do…
Time for country music to get off its high horse
Dear Country Music Establishment / Mainstream Country Music Machine: This piece of open and public correspondence isn’t aiming in any way, to begin (re)-examining the…
Nothing But the Silence: A sophisticated debut from Striking Matches
When a band hits the point of releasing their ever important debut album, that’s when listeners – new and pre-debut fans both – get a…
Conversations on Context: Letting Loose on Lyrics
“The 20/20 Experience” Album Art(Photo Cit. RollingStone.com) This week, two new albums hit the social media sphere and got people talking, praising, critiquing and criticizing. Justin Timberlake’s…
Nashville: Everlasting editorial for songwriters?
Love is thing without expiration, right? As a subject, it has been the soul of more songs than can be counted throughout history. Nonetheless, it is…
Taylor Swift trying to “Begin Again” in country with Tim McGraw?
Today’s Piece is a Special Guest Post by Scott Interrante, a pop music connoisseur and aspiring musicologist. You can read more of Scott’s thoughts on all…
Born to Raise Some Thoughts on John Mayer’s Introspection
This post just happens to be the 100th for “Throw the Dice” and hey, why not do something special to mark the occasion? So I’m shaking…
CBGB is Coming Back. Am I Being Punk’d?
No,ladies and gentlemen, you are not being Punk’d but you may want to start telling your friends all your old stories of how you ‘punked out’…
Rolling Stones Right Over *Not* Real Artists
As someone who is using the internet to say whatever it is I choose with this blog, I can, and pretty much have to, respect the…
For the Record: I Just Really Miss You
I don’t normally focus on the personal lives of musicians or artists. Sure, music news breaches high-profile losses, like the passing of Etta James that I…