AJJ examines truth and hopes for the best with “Good Luck Everybody”
Fifteen years is a long time for a band to not only exist but to thrive in today’s streaming and single-fueled music industry. In the…
Illustrations worth 1000 words: Jared Saltiel and “The Emperor’s New Wall”
Singer-songwriter, orchestrator, and playwright, Jared Saltiel, isn’t the typical breed of ambitious New York City musician. Sure, the idea of anything being typical in New…
Count it off: Musicians and making your voice heard on Election Day
Musicians are really good at counting to four, eight, nine, 16…so on and so forth. A band steps on stage and the drummer in the…
The Met on the Death of Klinghoffer: Clinging to a half-baked solution for sensitivity?
In a single afternoon, and with a single announcement, multiple news outlets (New Music Box, the New York Times, The Guardian and the Los Angeles…
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…
Some dry-ronic humor (that’s not so funny)
Here in the U.S., today, the beginning of October, we find ourselves suddenly saddled with a government shutdown, due to an inability of the two main…
A rash rush to pick(et)ing opera?
The Metropolitan Opera raised the curtain on its 2013-2014 season last night, September 23, with the debut of a new production for the classic opera, Eugene…
Selectively Mute: A response post to Emily Gonneau
MIDEM, known for picking out the top crop of thought leaders for their annual music conference in Cannes, France, recently posted a guest blog post composed by…