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- Why Do I Like What I Like? — Why do certain songs hit me so hard? I trace novelty, surprise and creativity to explain why The Preatures' Is This How
- An Awesome Wave of New Music — Music is my addiction, so I catalog recent Amazon MP3 purchases and what I added to my Amazon Cloud. My February 2013 ne
- Center Of It All — New album alert, Center Of It All is finally out and ready to download on CD Baby and stream on Spotify, Apple Music and
- Finding My Muse (Score) — Surprise find: switching from Sonar to Studio One pulled me into music notation. After a Presonus Black Friday deal I bo
- Mendelssohn & Monet — What makes Mendelssohn sound like Tuscany? I rediscovered free music notation software MuseScore 4, loaded a shared scor
- Buh-bye, Spotify — Enough was enough. I quit Spotify at the end of 2024 after learning they commission stock music for playlist priority an
- Heard in the delivery room — Ever wondered what actually gets played in the delivery room? My Music League round asked for songs from your birth year
- Driving songs — Nothing beats a perfect driving playlist on a sunlit highway. In this Music League round we each submitted two driving s
- At bat — Want stadium-ready walk-up song ideas that aren't just jock jams? In this Music League at bat post I pick Black Sabbath'
- Friends of Jerry — Who knew a Grateful Dead cover band would pull me to Ukie Club? Friends of Jerry at Ukie Club impressed with over two ho
- Forever, I’ve Been Being Born — Missed a comeback? I only found Jesse Sykes' new album months late. After 14 years her collaboration with Phil Wandscher
- Truth be told, we never loved you... — What happens when the Charlottetown Festival cuts six orchestra jobs from Anne of Green Gables The Musical? I argue the
- What we lost when we lost cassette tapes
- Music is just organized noise...
- Shit! Goddamn! Sing sweary songs and jam — Ready for a filthy jukebox? I’ve rounded up bawdy blues, sweary songs and NSFW tracks from LaVern Baker to Lords of Acid
- 6 Weird Pop Songs, Visualized — Curious how pop hits look as song lyric visualizations? I built SongSim, an interactive web app that creates self-simila
- How Rashid Vally showed us the way — Remember the smell of vinyl and incense on Market Street? In this piece I trace Rashid Vally’s journey from the Kort Str
- Hearing songs again for the first time — Sometimes a song you’ve heard a hundred times suddenly feels new. I wrote about rediscovering music, memory, and the str
- Electroacoustic music + dogs — A curious, playful exploration of sound, listening, and unexpected inspiration connecting experimental music, animals, a