two chords

Music criticism, mostly on jazz.

Professor at Mount Holyoke College: Modern, baroque, klezmer courses. More at www.klezmerflute.com

about musicology, open access, and college teaching.

You can make creative breakthroughs thanks to the paradoxical power of using creative constraints. Comics, literature, and beyond…

Join me for thoughts and audio from my latest composition and field recording projects.

The return of a long-neglected blog about classical music and any number of weird subjects

News and views about new music – contemporary composition, creative music & improvisation, electronic and electroacoustic work, and idioms for which no clever genre name has yet been coined – on stage and on recordings.

Slow writing on culture and music from an NPR veteran and bestselling author

Making Childhood Fit for Children

Ethan teaches you music

Rock history written from a queer lens.

Essays and interviews, mostly about music. Also a record label.

Dalcroze based lesson ideas, tools, philosophical musings, and podcasts! The best source for Music Education insight and opinion.

The band shares their favorite records (and some deep nerdery)

Song recommendations, information and more. We focus mainly (but not exclusively) on southern Africa (especially Botswana, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa) and eastern Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania).

Sound, Art, Vegetables

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

Thoughts on nearly vanished sounds, spirits, ideas.

Musings and interviews on music from Berlin and abroad

Black music, black culture and America.

A newsletter about experimental music both new and old.

If music is your best friend, always there for you, in the best times and the worst times, if you turn on some music to start your day, and if you brake for rainbows, this is the place where I explore and celebrate music and the people who create it.