Have you ever stopped to think about how you listen to music? When you hear a new song, do your ears focus on the melody, the lyrics, or the rhythm? Last month I was asked to sit in with some musicians who were putting together a performance of Eagles covers. I thought I knew the…
Back in 2006, after hearing about it on a podcast, I installed a music-tracking service known as Last.FM, using an iTunes (later MediaMonkey) plugin to “scrobble” my music into analytics that I’ve tracked over the years. In the nearly 16 years that have passed, the service never seemed to catch on, but I’ve remained a…
While listening to music, I stumbled on the strangest rabbit hole when a pivotal song of my youth came on Spotify, P.M. Dawn’s Set Adrift On Memory Bliss However this is not the beloved version from my youth (which, thankfully is still on YouTube for now): The re-recorded version, which is the only version available…
Wow did July get away from me. More on that later, but for now I wanted to share that my band, Amy and the Peace Pipes, has a new single out! Check out Clear Reflections! This is a new song that we wrote last fall, a love song for for Amy’s husband. The drum pattern…
I’m excited to share some new music from Amy and the Peace Pipes that we just dropped today – The Seen! We recorded this song back in January, hot off the presses. We actually hadn’t played it live before recording it. We actually had the beginning of this song written about a year before, but…