Mostly sharing my thoughts about albums and artists with a creative writing twist. My preferred genres are metal and popular music.
Got the publication name idea from Nightwish's song "Dead Gardens," which is about writer's block.
Dan Pal writes about film, television, and music in addition to various memoirs. His Top Ten Memoir covers music from every year of his life and his Palangeau Park videos document with dedication and humor the progress of his gardening efforts.
This is a music newsletter that rediscovers forgotten hit songs. What made the tunes popular back then? Why are they still awesome now? We're gonna find out.
Weekly music essays from a millennial independent music journalist with 10+ years of experience. Here I share tips for early-stage musicians, advice for fellow indie music writers, and analysis of music industry trends for casual music listeners.
Cuban sounds, and stories from the wide world of Latin music. Playlists, videos, interviews, and a serialized book about the pioneering Havana label Panart Records by Judy Cantor-Navas.
Music writing that is not restricted by the demands, wishes, and timelines of the music industry. Writing, not advertising. Love, not a battle of the brands.
I’ve self-published THE SOUND OF SETTLING, A Rock and Roll Love Story. Now it’s time to manifest the eventual streaming series I can already visualize with a proper publishing deal #SignTara
Each day discover amazing old school songs significant to that date and their back stories. A daily dose of rare soul, funk, disco and jazz that frees minds and shakes behinds. File under: music, sampling, vinyl records
Slices of wisdom by women age 40+. Wildly inspiring interviews, personal essays, fiction, podcast episodes, poetry and visual art delivered right to your inbox.
If you're a woman over 40, you'll relate to these stories, triumphs, celebrations, troubles, and tribulations. Alicia Dara takes the cake.
"The best music history writing online!" It's rock, records, and radio, as we go behind the scenes of my years in FM rock radio and the record biz in the '70s & '80s!
Poet, painter, storyteller, rabblerouser–a tempest in red lipstick. Expect provocative opinions, spirited rants, and laughter. This is my playground: rules rewritten daily.
Storytelling about rock pop music and culture through decades of interviews, reviews, and feature stories, shaken in a blender. Might be Steely Dan, Dylan, Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, boygenius. Might be Laura Nyro, Suzanne Vega, the Ramones.
Sunday round-ups of historical music events from 10 years ago through to over 100 years ago. There will be album anniversaries, artist profiles, inspiring quotes, music facts and figures, and loads more.
A wildly eclectic weekly newsletter on loose connections between music/culture/life/death/art & other fun stuff from Lo Carmen, singer-songwriter, host of Death Is Not the End & author of 'Lovers Dreamers Fighters’.
Former L.A. music industry/scenester. Sharing my memoirs spanning over 40 years. BOMP! VOXX Records & Warner Reprise Records Alumni - The Mo Years. I also write about obscure artists and other cool stuff.
The Third Way is my creativity lab. A place to play with ideas and people I find interesting; a place to use words and language to encourage and promote non-dualism in all aspects of life; a place for other Third Way thinkers to gather.
FREE: News, Musing, Limited Offerings brought to life by the unapologetic, creative “brainsalad thought leaderSH!P” of Jennifer Finch. Includes the section SH!T MY ROCKSTAR SAYS.
Guitarist, singer, animal advocate. 2022 inductee to the Iowa Rock & Roll Music Association Hall of Fame. Relentless promoter of women in Rock, past, present and future.
