Doesn't hearing Tom Waits' voice just make you smile ( Read more... )

Here's a fascinating article from the Washington Post, about an experiment with violin virtuoso Joshua Bell busking in the D.C. Metro ( Read more... )

This is just the best music magazine ever ( Read more... )

This morning my fingers hurt so much from playing guitar that I had to stop after a couple of songs. I've got some pretty decent callouses, but not good enough, it seems. This is such a neat process, learning guitar! Since I've never played a musical instrument before, it's as if a whole new part of my brain is being woken up and put to use. I ( Read more... )

Now why is it that I am so irresistably drawn to a very specific certain type of bouncy pop music? I'm sure that if I looked at it closely, I could figure out exactly what musical element it is that draws me to play the same CDs over and over again ( Read more... )