Discovering Independent Music
I binged through Only Murders in the Building last weekend, and aside from it being a great and very entertaining TV series, it had some fantastic music. The score is just the right kind of light-hearted bounciness you might expect for this mystery-comedy series, but it was the one, short instance of Clair de lune… Continue reading Clair de lune
Half of today's post comes from one of the weirdest media releases to fall into the Alternative Airwaves inbox; now I will admit that I am very bad when it comes to reading emails to this address, forget even responding, but in my endeavor to get back to writing about music, I was drawn to… Continue reading Said The Whale ‘Dandelion’ and Pokémon 25: The Album
Désigné is an album by an Ottawa-based producer / artist, Nova Spire. This particular album is Synthwave, though according to the artist's BandCamp page he produces other styles for various forms of media. I found this via Reddit, on the OttawaMusic subreddit. I'm trying to commit to reviewing one album or EP each week, and… Continue reading Review: Désigné by Nova Spire
A caveat for this post: I am well aware that Ryan Adams hardly qualifies as an independent artist, and is definitely NOT creative commons. But I'd like to talk about music in general on the blog, so I'm going to continue writing about things that spark joy. Ryan Adam's 2015 album 1989 is a direct… Continue reading Looking Back at Ryan Adams’ 1989
Content warning: One Good Reason contains some open and honest revelations about sexual abuse and addiction. You may want to be careful reading it if this kind of subject matter is difficult for you to handle. Launched just last week, One Good Reason: A Memoir of Addiction and Recovery, Music and Love is the memoir… Continue reading Séan McCann’s One Good Reason is all about Truth
I was given a heads up at the start of April about a new book coming out today (April 14th): One Good Reason: A Memoir of Addiction and Recovery, Music and Love by Séan McCann and Andrea Aragon. It's published by Nimbus Publishing, a group based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. If you were wondering who… Continue reading Announcing One Good Reason
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