Very possibly you’d like to hear some other voices, so I’ve asked a handful of musical friends to share some thoughts about music. No rules, just as music should be. Watch for them between now and The Big One Zero.
Category: stories and more
meta posts; thoughts about music itself rather than a specific work or artist
Catching Up with the Grammys
Congrats to Adele not only for all those Grammys, but for becoming the second artist ever to win all four general categories: Record, Album, and Song of the Year, and Best New Artist. (Remember who did it first, over 30 years ago?)
I was delighted to discover that the record for most Grammys overall goes, not to a rapper, rocker, or ranter, but a conductor. Continue reading “Catching Up with the Grammys”
Home Stretch to 300 in 10
According to the little sidebar tool I built I’ve got 31 days until this blog is 10 years old. In order to have 300 posts by then, I still have 20 posts to write. Continue reading “Home Stretch to 300 in 10”
FAWM USSS
Wanna discover some amazing new music from unknown (for now) singer/songwriters? I’ll be writing a series about my dozen or so favorite FAWMers. They’ll tend toward the swingabilly stuff I write and play myself, so if you’d like to discover classical, jazz, rap, metal, virtually any genre of music, give the FAWM jukebox a whirl and give yourself the gift of a brand new favorite artist.
Each article will have a link to their FAWM profile, which has links to their websites where you can dig into past FAWMs and other music they’ve written.
Next up: the February Album Writing Month Unknown Singer Songwriter Series, or FAWM USSS (and you know how I’m pronouncing that, right?)
FAWM, But Not FAWM
It’s February, which usually means February Album Writing Month.
This year, it doesn’t.
Coming Soon: A New Look
Finally tired of the archaic theme I was using, so I’m going to build one from scratch since that’s what I do for a living.
Stay tuned.
Countdown in the Sidebar
I’ve added a countdown timer over in the sidebar that tells us all how many posts I still need to write and how many days I have left to write 300 posts by this blog’s 10th anniversary.
And now, it’s one less.
300 by 10?
March 12, 2012 will be this blog’s 10th anniversary. I built it by hand way back then; better tools these days.
I had hoped to write post #300 for the 10th anniversary. Should have been easy; when I first thought of it I had 14 months (=64 weeks) to write the 57 posts it’d take to get there.
Then, I spent almost a year doing nothing here at all.
Now it’s less than 90 days out. Can I write 57 posts in 90 days? Only if I streamline, stop fussing so much about perfecting the details, and just share my intense fire for music.
Counting down. It’s on.
Inherited the Music
I [az]B0012GMW98[/az] make mix CDs for our drives through the mountains (or wherever we’re driving through.) My daughter, 6, has realised that she can have almost anything she wants on her MP3 player.
And I’ve realised that, when she says at the beginning of every single song “Oh, you have to put this song on my MP3 player this instant!” she’s not just talking. She knows the songs, she loves the songs, she wants the songs.
She may grow up to love music almost as much as I do.
Vinyl Art on Fire: Groovy Portraits
M [az]B000002J01[/az]ixed media: I love running across the stuff hanging in a gallery where the artist has photos embedded in acrylic with gardening implements painted garish colors and a bucket of dirt with a live plant growing in it. (I made that up; don’t go looking for it.)
Daniel Edlen has created an ebook which even I, an avowed ebook ignorer, couldn’t ignore.
As you’ll note in the sidebar, Daniel paints original works of art on, well, original works of art. Paintings of the artist on their own vinyl album.
Now he’s created a multimedia ebook, with images of his work, his comments on the music, and videos to accompany it all.
And it’s free, because that’s how Daniel is.
If you love music or art or just like to see something you’ve never seen before, this will touch you.