writing about music – michael jarmer

The A to Z Listening Challenge So Far (By The Numbers)

It appears that I have arrived at the half way point in my challenge of listening to nearly every single album in my vinyl record collection. It falls, neatly enough, at the end of the letter L, just one letter shy of the 13th letter, and the half way mark in the alphabet, which is,Continue reading “The A to Z Listening Challenge So Far (By The Numbers)”

#642: C is for Case, Neko

I heard Neko Casesing for the first timeon an early album from the Canadiansupergroup, the un-fortunately named New Pornographers. I had no idea at the time shehad her own solothing going as a country singer, a country singer,according to her memoir,whose musical instructionwas mostly punk rock. She evolved quickly into somethingentirely different, so when IContinue reading “#642: C is for Case, Neko”

We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Program To Bring You This Breaking News Announcement

In my project of listening to (nearly) every single record in my collection from A to Z and then writing a little poem-like-thing for every artist represented, I have come to the conclusion that my turntable needle is shot to hell. For a while there, I was making annotations to the effect that certain recordsContinue reading “We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Program To Bring You This Breaking News Announcement”