The Mountain Goats tag in many styles with “Beat the Champ”
It, most likely, would not be an unreasonable assumption to believe that someone who is a diehard fan of the Mountain Goats and who has…
Cutting Jonas Tarm’s composition: Common sense or censorship?
A bit of back story first: This morning, pockets of the social media world are buzzing with talk of a recently and hastily cancelled upcoming performance,…
On to the core of the music!
Recently, I was given the opportunity to write a guest blog (for your reading pleasure, part 1 and part 2) for the live music archiving and…
Making No-Frills on Morality and Music Piracy
Gilkey said that he didn’t like to spend his own money on books and that it wasn’t fair that he didn’t have enough money to afford…
Ain’t Asking for Additional Anticipation
It’s a few days into June and I thought that after the rather intense post on John Mayer from last time, that I would shift to the lighter…
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…
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…
A Tale of Two Cities
Sergei Prokofiev, is one of the greats. He was a well known Russian, 20th century composer; often standard in classical repertoire, music history curriculums and people’s…
61 Around the Sun
And so starts another month in the year 2011. Happy March. It’s the beginning of winter’s end, (YAY!) windy days and making lots of Irish soda…
Block of Genius
After working the day away and watching the sun disappear way faster than I would like it to, I thought it might be nice to spend…