MUSIC is not a GENRE

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE There are so many things in the music world that make sense. The everlasting popularity of stars like Sinatra or Elvis or the Beatles or Led Zeppelin or Prince or Nirvana or Mariah Carey or Cher etc. etc. Or the more underground and under the radar appeal of bands like Sparks – hugely influential and wildly eclectic, but only deliber...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE The full interview with Stephanie Kay, sci-fi podcaster, music lover, award winning karaoke singer, and co-founder of The Lambda Quadrant (see below).   For more about Stephanie Kay, check out these links:    THE NX7062 PODCAST http://bit.ly/2NX7062Podcast   www.facebook.com/nx7062 www.twitter.com/nx7062   THE HAWK CHRONICLES - sci-f...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE When David Bowie died five years ago, I righted a big wrong. I’d been aware of him since the 1970s, knew some of his hits & ‘80s music & offshoots like Tin Machine. Someone I really respected, but kept at arm’s length.  So I fixed that and listened to his entire catalog. I was immediately hooked.  Not just on Bowie’s legendary shape-...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE The full one-hour interview with Cathryn Lynne, performer & co-creator of SnerkShirts by FEEK.   For more information on Cathryn, go here:  https://www.facebook.com/CathrynplusNick  https://www.instagram.com/cathrynplusnick/ https://snerkshirtsbyfeek.com/  To see Cathryn in action, go here:  https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfrAP6I...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE I found it! My CD collection has been moved twice in the last 18 months, and I have not done ANY reorganizing. Hunting through 600+ CDs to find the only one I want was not something I had any desire to do. So it was a huge relief that this one was sitting right out front on one of the shelves. And why? Because I should have started m...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Last week we talked about audio formats, and touched on how there have been more than 50. Every time a new format is introduced and actually takes hold, the old formats start a slow process of diminishment to be strictly for collectors, fetishists, and/or nostalgia freaks. They never quite go away, but they eventually become too inco...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Before I started podcasting, I was blogging weekly for a long while. I started with my cassette collection. When I finished with those and got ready to transition to vinyl, I took a pause to discuss the history of music formats, from as far back as late 19th century cylinders all the way up to present day streaming. (COOL LINK ABOVE)...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE People are passionate about the music they love. (Most people anyway. We won’t mention the others :) ). When that passion runs so deep that it becomes part of their core identity, it can cause fires. They can get insulted by people who don’t like a favorite artist or style. They can get so obsessed with their music that all other mus...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE This is it. We are getting ready to enter Phase 3 of something that started five years ago. These Thursday posts have gone through a lot of changes. Phase 1 was all text and photos, and all about cassettes. Phase 2 was transitional - all about vinyl, starting with texts and photos and morphing into videos, which morphed into a YouTub...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Multitalented people are not rare. The creative brain tends to think that everything has the potential to be something. And if that brain also has talent and interest in an area, that person won’t be able to resist making something new. I can think of a dozen famous people offhand who do at least two things really well. What is rarer...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Every so often I like to pause the madness and check in. Do a state of the onion - talk about what layers have been peeled away and which ones are yet to come. I’m not going to add my voice to the thousands of others who need to reiterate what a year it’s been - unexpected suffering discovery triumph etc. All true and all blah blah....

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Every year I make a list of gifts to get people. I try to intuit their tastes and interests, and get something thoughtful and hopefully meaningful to them. Books. Clothes. Treats. Homemade things. Gadgets and games. But this list is missing something, as it has for the past several years. Music. CDs. Box sets. Vinyl. We all know that...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Calling something “world music” is like calling people “Earth humans”. In other words: DUH. It’s a genre name that has come to mean something simply because the music industry said it should. But when you poke it, when you dig deeper and flesh out what it’s really saying, you quickly discover that it’s nothing more than a American/Eu...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Ever hear an awesome song and find out later that it’s a remake? Or a song you know is a cover and it’s so amazingly good that you like it even more than the original? Both are incredible discoveries, not just because you love the songs, but because they also breathe new life into old tunes AND create a direct connection between eras...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE FEATURING THESE SONGS: 1978 - Arpeggio - “Love & Desire” 1979 – French Kiss – “Panic” 1983 – Rags & Riches – “Land of 1,000 Dances” 1983 – Pamala Stanley – “Coming Out of Hiding” 1983 – Lime – “Angel Eyes”/”Guilty” 1984 – Temper – “No Favors” 1984 – Wish, Featuring Fonda Rae – “Touch Me (All Night Long)” 1985 – The Bar-Kays – “Your P...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Since the beginning of popular music - and depending on how you define it that could mean hundreds of years ago, trends have been a thing. Whether due to music creators pushing through to the next or different level of composition, performance and production; or fans being attracted by something new and different, and/or wanting to j...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE First thing I gotta say is I don’t know a TON about southern rock. I know some classic bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top and Allman Brothers. More recent alt bands like My Morning Jacket and Kings of Leon, and some of the newer bands like Alabama Shakes and Derek Trucks. I’m not a southern rock expert, or even a giant fan. But I d...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE There are two kinds of people in this world... Okay there are way more than two kinds of people - like, for example, people who don’t care about any of this at all. But let’s forget about them and be reductionist just for fun. As I was saying, there are two kinds of people in this world: those whose enjoyment of a trick is spoiled wh...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE If you’ve been following along, you might know two things: 1. This is the third episode of my ILLUSION podcast miniseries; and B. I LOVE working in the studio. You might also know where I’m going with this, which is that both of these things are ... DA da da DAAAA ... CONNECTED. From the beginning of recorded sound, engineers and art...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Every artist gets there. For some, it’s a departure from their normal mode. For some, it IS their mode. For some, it’s a concession to age. For some, it’s a defiant statement of not being pigeonholed or thought of as less “serious”. You know the moment I’m talking about. When an artist writes & records that extra special “heartfelt c...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Fake. Authentic. Sellout. Integrity.  Judgy, aren’t we? Yes, we are. We all know what’s real & what isn’t. What has value and what doesn’t. What is substance and what is fluff. Except we don’t. It’s ALL an illusion. And ILLUSION is what I’ll be talking about in the next few episodes of BOTH of my podcasts. All art is part truth, part...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Tons of years ago, I created this cartoon character named Feek. As you can see on this shirt, he’s essentially a big-mouthed head with legs & feet. His whole purpose for existence is to shout things into general space that you’d be too timid to say otherwise. Some of his phrases (or Snerks) are more funny than angry, some the other w...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE When you think of Madonna, what comes to mind first? Is it her early NYC post-punk-dance period? Her movie career? Her many relationships? One or more of her mega hits? Her near constant reinvention? Odds are it’s at least two of those things (okay, maybe not her movie career). But one thing that runs through ALL of them is CONTROVER...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Years ago I had a boss who told me multitasking is a myth. That it’s impossible for the brain to focus on or do more than one thing at a time. I took this in as I was mentally reviewing my work schedule for the day, rubbing my thigh casually, and chewing the inside of my lip. It was the first time I’d heard anyone take this stance, b...

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE Back when walking around indoors amongst strangers didn’t cause massive physical anxiety, I used to take every chance I got to pop into a thrift store and see if it had any interesting vinyl. The truth is ANY vinyl you find in a thrift store is interesting. It’s something someone else owned and listened to, that for whatever reason t...