I’ve recently found myself in the middle of a few heavy projects that require a sound track that is engaging enough to keep me focused on the tasks in front of me while at the same time not distracting me from said tasks. Enter “Weathervanes” by Freelance Whales.  The New York based band is best [...]

John Butler Trio holds a very sentimental place in my heart. I first heard them in 2005 while living in Australia when their single “Zebra” was released.  That song is still one of my favorites, with one of the catchiest hooks of all time. On the (very) rare occasion that I pick up a guitar [...]

On Wednesday, over at the Scoutie Girl blog, Tara asked readers to share their favorite music that gets their creative juices flowing.  Naturally, this was a tough question for me to only pick ONE answer to.  My initial reaction was “Liztomania” by Phoenix because that ALWAYS gets me going.  So I went with that.  But [...]

For most of life, my creative outlet has been found in music. My Dad is a music teacher, my mom is a pianist, my brother plays the bass and is finishing his degree in sound engineering and I grew up playing piano. Until 1998 when Jennifer Knapp hit the scene. At that time I dropped [...]

I’m not sure where I first heard about stereomood.com, probably somewhere in the Twitterverse, but when I finally got around to checking it out I thought, “Why didn’t I think of this?”.   I’ve spent way too much time on Pandora trying to get it to play just the right set of music or building playlists [...]

Sometimes before I share an album here on the blog I like to read what other people have said about the music. I do this after I’ve listened to the album a few times and have thoughts of my own.  Though I did study music for a few years, I’m not a professional musician and [...]

“And why should I download them today?” you ask.  Well because tomorrow, they won’t be $5 any more, and this is a great deal on some fantastic new music.  Every month Amazon MP3 has a selection of 100 albums for $5.  Musical genres range from classical to world music to pop to indie and album [...]

I thought I’d share my newest online streaming music obsession with you this week. Often when I’m in the middle of a big project or just needing to crank out some work, I find that I just want to have a personal DJ playing music for me. I don’t want to take the time to [...]

One of the side effects of working by yourself at home is that you don’t have anyone to talk to.  So you talk to the dog, you tweet a lot and, on the rare occasion, you talk to yourself.  Here is a resent conversation I had with myself. Melanie: “You know who should do a [...]

I was so happy to stumble upon Lucy Schwartz and her happy piano pop tunes last year and equally as happy to share this rising star with all of you!  Earlier this year Lucy’s “people” contacted me to share Lucy’s new EP “Help Me! Help Me” and I gotta say, it didn’t disappoint.  The title [...]