Tag: music

Notes From AVL Fest 2024

Since we attended in 2023, we had option to buy early tickets for $50 for the weekend – worth buying no matter what the case. I don’t recall much about the 2023 lineup other than it bounced between soaking rains and insufferable heat.
The Explosion and a Persistent Challenge of Discovery and Appreciation.

Artists tend to not stop making things, even if the thing you remember them making isn’t around anymore.
Murder by Death with J. Roddy Walston

Thoughts and such from the June 7th, 2024 show at The Grey Eagle in Asheville, NC. What does it take for a musician to make a decent living in this always-streaming, algorithm sucking, Ticketmaster-gutting world we live in? For one, they ask for money. “I don’t have any merch,” Walston says. He’s on stage, alone,…
The West Was Always Queer

I’ll be straight with you, it was a lively scene. For those of you who may not yet know, Orville Peck is a bit of a hero in the LGBTQ community. He plays country western music, takes the stage in leather pants, an undershirt, and his trademark mask under a cowboy hat. The rest of…
You Should Own Everything on your #SpotifyWrapped

$30K paid for the physical recording. But that’s not counting the years of writing that went into it. Every song you hear is someone’s effort, it is someone’s art. When you buy an album, you’re buying a work of art.
From Mistakes to Style #1

“A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” Pablo Coelho “Once is a mistake. Twice is an idea. Three times is style.” Miles Davis At least, I think it was Miles who said that. Maybe it was someone else, maybe it was no one else, at the very least I hope it wasn’t someone…
LIONS

Note: personal fan page to collect and publish stuff I dig. Not managed or endorsed in any way by the artist. “Lions,” as you can imagine, is a commonly used name for creative acts. This page is specifically for LIONS, the since-disbanded rock group from Austin, Texas. From Wikipedia: Lions (stylized as LIONS) were an…