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…
Not black or white: “Angels with Tattoos” champions a Grey view of character
There’s a delicate and difficult juggling act that hangs over the heads of anyone brave enough to try and rise above the crowded space that…
10 musical thoughts to remember into 2019
Here’s a shorty-but-a-goodie of some worthwhile things to take into the new year: Word of mouth is still the best way to get…
From City Mouth’s lips to your ears: A Conversation with Matt Pow
Last week, “sort-of Chicago” band, (Really Chicago suburb, Evergreen Park, Illinois,) City Mouth, released a new EP via Take This to Heart Records titled, Hollows.…
From feelings to foxes: A five year reflection
2010. That was a big year in my life. That year closed the chapter on my graduate studies and left me in the “real world”…
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…
Moving toward a “Lonely” music mindset: “No Pop”?
Does any single person, single group, single field of recreation or study, ever truly know when it is in the midst of a genuine “new…
Chaos and concert etiquette 3.0: The Freedom Edition
What’s the definition of freedom in regards to concert behavior? Is there any semblance of reliable lists of expectation or, short of stopping before total anarchy,…
Is the way of traditional fan appeal and aggregation gone with the wind of subcultural change?
Just shy of a month ago, a fellow music industry writer and general knowledge enthusiast, Sunny Stuart Winter, posted his essay on “The Importance of Sub-Cultural Identity,”…
Not just blowing smoke: One fan’s passion is another fan’s apathy
What do we find valuable about music? Have we constricted our ability to determine what makes music important to us as individuals, by continually and…