I went to Philadelphia for the first time a couple of months ago to see Failure.  I'll have more to say about that later.  For now, I'd like ask you:  What's the first thing you think of when you think…

I would imagine that many towns with enough musicians has open mic events.  Our does.  Some of them are truly open... arrive, jump on a sign up list, play.  Some of them are curated... anyone can play, but you must…

This song started as a voice memo, a brief line of lyrics and the slightest suggestion of melody sung to my phone. The line in question was this one:

tell your teacher I got some bright ideas

Admittedly, that's not…

Almost a year ago, on Sunday March 28th, 2021, I went to Reel Love Recording Company and recorded this single. Brian Hoeflich played drums, Jeremy Raucci played guitar, and Patrick Himes sang some vocals and made it all sound good…

I have mentioned before that I took a trip to France in 2002, and only took five compact discs with me for the duration of the trip.  As you might imagine, I listened to these albums over and over and…

I'm not a journalist or professional writer, but I like to write, so my blog is a way to scratch that particular itch. To some extent, my Twitter feed also serves this purpose. I learned this year of a music…

You might remember that I have a song about a particularly unpleasant experience with the police, and that TINO had the kindness to feature on it. The story behind writing "Anecdote" is right over here, on a previous blog…

Carolyn Shulman is currently from Colorado. She had a lot to say, which I strongly encourage, so we'll skip the preamble and get around to amplifying her voice after the picture.

Photo by Jessie Matteson

1.  Let's hear the elevator…

If your restaurant is called Mofongos, it would be reasonable to expect a Puerto Rican restaurant with mofongo prominently featured among the culinary offerings. This spot in North Hollywood fulfilled and surpassed both of those expectations on my recent…

To begin, I'd like to make it clear right up front that Audiomack is not sponsoring me in any way, and I am not being paid to talk about them. All of the experiences I am going to relay to…

What's your favorite music streaming service?  There are many to choose from.  The most popular ones are Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Napster, Pandora, Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube Music, depending on where you might be from.  There are dozens of…

I think today is a good day to tell you about my in-progress EP.  Let's pretend I'm a journalist and use the 5 W questions, shall we?

Photo by Joshua Chan

WHY?

I wrote a great deal of songs during…