How I Found A Steady Soundtrack For An Unsteady Life
You can’t touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it. Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves.
David Byrne • How Music Works
The venues were tight, the stages were small (if there was one at all), and the band and the crowd would charge toward each other like frontline soldiers in a swirling mosh pit. At some shows, the singer would rush into the mob and lend the microphone to the fans for the majority of the songs. The songs were shared and communal, belonging as much t... See more
Bobby Hundreds • This Is Not a T-Shirt
I finally felt in my body how music worked. A chorus of nonbelievers, channeling God. A harmonic coming together capable of overtaking lyrics about drift and catastrophe, a song as proof that people can work together.
Hua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
I’d heard these songs hundreds of times before. But to listen to them with other people: it was what I’d been waiting for.
Hua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
What does a musician's world look like when their community is the record label?
Nick Johnson • Creators, Communities, and the Gray Space in the Middle — Nichanan Kesonpat
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It was that golden time on the internet where new music was thrillingly accessible, but not abundantly so. The treasures still had to be sifted out, by those who cared enough to put in the hours; snuffling through the music blogs and the BitTorrents in search of our precious truffles like the trendy little pigs we were.
I can still remember the ban... See more
I can still remember the ban... See more