When Sound Evokes Memory
Science suggests music can bring back memories and my soul agrees I recently heard a song off of the 1995 album Above by the short-lived...
Precursor To Immortality
Both a treasure map of things to come and a sometimes disjointed debut album, Radiohead released Pablo Honey 30 years ago I've always...
The Technology Takeover
As Artificial Intelligence continues to challenge the traditional music industry, the line in the sand between those for and against it...
Kurt Cobain Would Have Turned 56 On February 20, 2023
Celebrating the life of one of the most unlikely cultural icons Photo credit - Charles Peterson When you reach my age (50 is just a few...
Writing a Book is Hard, but Enjoying the Process is Easy
It's fitting that as I write this blog I've got the odd-timed, semi-psychedelic "Head Down" off of Soundgarden's 1994 release,...
Improvisational Chaos & Disorder
The incomparable Frank Zappa left the world 29 years ago today and took with him a large swath of the cool, the weird, and the muddle...
29 Years Of Wu
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the debut album of Hip-Hop pioneers, Wu-Tang Clan, continues to influence nearly three decades after its...
Falling Up - Chris Shinn
Shinn's latest offering is the album he needed to make and the one we needed to hear Photo credit - L DG Lucia De Giovanni One thing...
Music & Merch
As traditional record sales have gone away, selling merchandise is one of the only consistent ways for artists to make money...but it's...
Toadies Are Alive And Well
Fort Worth rock veterans owned the crowd at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey Photo credit - Michael Kravetsky/Watermrk Studios...
A Superstar Is Born
Dave Grohl debuts with Nirvana 32 years ago today No one could've predicted that a skinny punk rock drummer from the Washington D.C....
Getting Better With Age
R.E.M.'s 1992 album Automatic For The People still sounds amazing 30 years later Automatic For The People was released in the United...
Slacker: 1991, Teen Spirit Angst, and the Generation It Created
A behind-the-scenes look at this crazy journey as I write my first book For those of you who've known me since the late 80s/early 90s,...
Nirvana's Nevermind Turns 31 Today
With over 75 million albums sold, billions of streams, and generations of fans, Nirvana is still relevant 31 years after its iconic...
Can Musicians Get Paid Fairly In The Age Of Streaming?
The United States Senate introduces the American Music Fairness Act More than a year after the American Music Fairness Act (AMFA) made...
Brains, Beats, and Bars
My conversation with Hip-Hop producer and Ph.D., Configa Artistry comes in many forms. Technical skill, hours, and years of practice in...
Chuck D of Public Enemy Agrees to Sell Music Catalog
In what's becoming one of the hottest trends in the music industry, Chuck D of the iconic Public Enemy has agreed with Reach Music...
It's Called Gratitude, And That's Right
Celebrating the life and music of Beastie Boys Adam Yauch (MCA) on what would've been his 58th birthday Today is my daughter's birthday....
Music For Insight & Regard, But Mostly, For The FKN Love
Arrested Development's latest album just might be their best. My conversation with Speech about this and much more. “When the hard stuff...
Snap, Crackle, Play
Those pops and hisses you hear when you drop the needle on the record are anticipatory bliss Listening to music is supposed to be a...
