They were loud and fast. Except for Stash, the drummer, who once spent six weeks in a monastery and now said things like, “The snare is the breath.” One night […]

The band was called Patient Karma. They had a van with three working tires, and a bassist named Sage, who refused to play the root note. The others begged. Pleaded. […]

Quillette magazine keeps making the most amusing music stories to me: HIS SATANIC MAJESTY RETIRES. “Ozzy Osbourne really was popular culture’s Prince of fucking Darkness. His songs have scored so many black-laced […]

They need a driver and I’m the only one available even though I have to get to Guelph from Toronto. It’s worth it. As you age you see more meaning […]

At one point, an older man in the audience, clearly moved by the music, got up and began to dance. The venue was packed, but he found a small pocket […]

Finished the first draft. Editing now. Raw, messy, maybe out of tune but full of intention. You hear the shape of what could be, even if no one else quite […]

The human program is strange: wired to believe we’re unique, separate, solo acts. And yet also swept into the symphony of consciousness a field so vast and seamless it makes […]

Two TikTok musicians went viral for doing duets with parakeets and remixing theme songs from 90s cartoons. Between them, they had five million followers and seventeen brand deals. After a […]

I was reading about websites that sell fake music streams, entire operations built to manipulate play counts through bots and streaming farms. Apparently, several were taken offline after a legal […]

What is light years? I know what they say, it is how far light travels in a year. Thanks. Maybe that’s helpful like telling a beginner painter shading just means […]