The Musical Object as Conduit for the Personal, from Artist to Audience
I took a trip to New England during the first week of August, and despite my common sense repeatedly reminding me that I had limited room in my carry-on for […]
August 18, 2025What Process Music Teaches About Time and Transparency
Several months ago now, Nonesuch released an immense CD boxset of Steve Reich’s Collected Works, spanning his early phase pieces like Come Out, his popular Music for 18 Musicians, and […]
July 28, 2025Real Life: Marie Davidson, Identity Formation, and Albums as Snapshots Into the Contemporary Working Musician
It’s been a little while since I did a classic, artist profile-style blog, so I reflected on who I’ve been listening to on repeat recently that warranted a deep dive. […]
July 15, 2025Recommended For Me: A Dream Logic Dive Into Crate Digging, the Indie Web, and Musical Exploration Outside Familiarity
We’ll see when I get to the bottom of this essay, but this whole blog post may be the result of heat wave delusions. If you live in the Midwest […]
June 30, 2025Social Media vs. Authenticity, Pop vs. the Underground, and Addison Rae vs. It All
I don’t typically talk about pop music here on the blog, but I cannot deny what I have been preoccupied with these past couple of weeks. While I do proclaim […]
June 16, 2025Going Offline at Cincinnati’s Analog Fair 2025
This blog post is a suitable companion to last time’s review of Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine, as I find that Cincinnati’s third annual Analog Fair based out of Northside, is […]
June 4, 2025Lean Forward and Read Liz Pelly’s ‘Mood Machine’
If you’ve been reading the blog for the past few months, my topics have tended towards discussions of music, data, streaming technology, and physical media. I’ve been preoccupied with these […]
May 22, 2025Field Notes on Field Recordings
Lately, I’ve tried to listen to music less while walking around the city. I have been a chronic headphones user since a very young age, and from the second I […]
April 29, 2025Casual Archives: Observations from the WGUC CD Giveaway
About a month ago, Cincinnati’s public classical radio station, WGUC extended an invite to Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra staff and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music students to help clear out […]
April 15, 2025No Bad Blood About Pete Rose: Yo La Tengo at the Woodward Theater, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 25, 2025
About halfway through the sixth song in Yo La Tengo’s set, “Periodically Double or Triple,” at the Woodward Theater in Cincinnati, Ira Kaplan stopped, realizing he had yet to say […]
April 7, 2025