You’ve spoken extensively about how your race informs your songwriting; what does it mean to you for someone to "sound Black"? It’s hard not to say that most Western music doesn’t sound Black. Many of our most popular forms, pop-rock-dance-soul-funk-gospel-country-folk-blues, ...
What albums and songs are getting a lot of play on your Spotify or iTunes app currently? My guest would say that the music you put in heavy rotation comes down to your unique “listener profile.” Her name is Susan Rogers, and she’s a music producer-turned-neuroscientist as well as ...
Metallica (1991):With their commercial hard-rock makeover, one of metal's best bands became one of the biggest groups on the planet. Trading thrash for songs, grime for polish, the Black Album kept the traditional rock music scene alive during a period when alternative sounds were pulling aw...
Jelly Roll has taken the country music world by storm over the past year, and he will release his first full-length country album,Whitsitt Chapel,on June 2. Before he jumps right into the deepend of the genre, let's take a walk down memory lane. There are 11 songs that seemed to fo...
Jelly Roll has taken the country music world by storm over the past year, and he will release his first full-length country album,Whitsitt Chapel,on June 2. Before he jumps right into the deepend of the genre, let's take a walk down memory lane. There are 11 songs that seemed to fo...
Songs Credit:Pleasant Pictures Music Club TRANSCRIPT Monica Packer:Hello everyone, my voice sounds a little different. I am recording without my recording equipment for a number of reasons that I will save you from hearing about. I knew I had to talk today about something that’s been on my...
Is there something you hope people get out of the songs you've been doing over the last 10 years? Do you find yourself putting out a message that keeps repeating? Well, I suppose, if anything, is that you can come to terms with your life, you can keep a hold of it. You can wo...
This does read like poetry, especially the line about building towers. Beautiful work!ali bradley on July 18, 2012 at 1:13 pm This isn’t just an exercise for me, it is a repeating question in my mind the past couple of months. I’ve come up with a few reasons. I mainly began ...
—I can do it because I’ve accumulated those abilities and similar analogous kind of things in the other kind of work one does. So it makes it more possible to do things. But it’s still hard. They’re all challenges all the time. To some extent you do get more ski...
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.