On November 19, 2015, I fell in love with a song that had just been posted on YouTube. Accompanied by a surrealist 10-minute music video, this was what can only be classified as “weird shit.” The song was called Blackstar, by David Bowie. From the opening moments, all I could…
When I was much younger, I had insomnia. Realistically, I still have insomnia. I’m working on it, that’s not the point. My therapist, whom I’m not ashamed to admit I was seeing at the age of 12, recommended that I begin listening to a tape every night when I went…
The music industry is dying. At least, this is the common expression among music businessmen. The availability of music for cheap prices and the abundance of illegal downloading have effectively crippled traditional music sales. While it’s true that the Internet has dramatically debilitated the traditional institutions that dominated the music…