There was a guitarist named Stanley who could play anything except what people wanted him to play, which made him either an artist or unemployed depending which side of the […]

Avram believed a chord existed containing the secret architecture of creation. He had heard this from an old cantor in Vilnius who had heard it from a violinist in Kraków […]

A musician named Lena was afraid of herself. This was difficult to explain. Wherever she went the person she feared arrived at the same time. She could avoid difficult promoters, […]

Halfway through making his record, Marlon developed carpal tunnel. He blamed the piano, then the computer, then age, then the piano again. His wrist hurt when he played octaves. Occasionally […]

Shirley began as a kid on an ordinary clarinet. It appeared in school bands. It had music written specifically for it. Her parents understood what it was, more or less. […]

Every night brought a different mattress, different pillow, and a different mysterious light blinking near the television. For years he slept wherever tours put him. Motels beside highways, promoters’ basements […]

I worked a few years ago with a musician who was shitty to work with, mostly because he lied. Not enormous lies. Just the kind that slowly makes working with […]

Sandy who owned the Peter Pan died, which is a rotten trick even for Peter Pan, a place whose very name suggested nobody was supposed to get any older in […]

Morris disliked the suggestion he had discovered a secret. He hadn’t. He hated waiting rooms, pharmaceutical hold music, government forms, musicians who didn’t bring cables, and anyone who used the […]

Next year, at a certain point I am doing 2 weeks of house concerts in BC. What would be the best way to organize the costs of driving? They start […]