There I was, puttering about the offices at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, fretting about what song to write about next. A cohort helpfully suggested I revisit Peanuts music – that is, music associated with the famed comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. S. Yes, but I actually wro... Keep reading →

The Eurovision song contest is sort of like the music Olympics; each country gets to submit a song and accompanying performance, and the judges pick the winners. Eurovision has been held every year since 1956, except for the year 2020, when it was canceled due to COVID.

Now that we have over half a century of winners, the list is a prime candidate for picking out notable moments in... Keep reading →

The world’s most photogenic band, their makeup and costumes as good an example of greasepaint cosplay as any, still pops up on your social media stream. You have good taste, you follow popular rock bands as well as you cherish your hand-assembled indie playlist on Spotify. And, given the average social media music-fandom algorithm (picture some laboring, wheezing server in the basement... Keep reading →

I know it’s a cliché to say this… but I never thought I’d end up here career-wise. Not only am I winding up my fifth year at Dab Connection as their editor-in-chief and resident expert on all things cannabis, but I’ve picked up another gig writing fo... Keep reading →

If you appreciate music made on the xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, and other tonal percussive instrumentation, then you should know the name Ruth Underwood. She played as part of the Mothers of Invention years ‘68-’77, as well as on-again / off-again collabs with Zappa alumni since. But perhaps it’s best to let... Keep reading →

"The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious." -- Lester Bangs

Carrying on from: “I Could Have Seen This Coming At Me Like An Atom Bomb” back in 2011, this is a list of notably catchy commercial songs and bits which have ingrained thems... Keep reading →

Hello, your modern-day #eCommerce student of Marshall McLuhan here! We freelance authors have to stay studied up on our media science, which is why we tend to appreciate satire of media, especially showing the business side. Here’s a few movies and TV series of the “satires about the media industry” genre for an e... Keep reading →

Have you hardly got two coins to rub together? Are you so broke, panhandlers offer you money? Most importantly, have the Billionaire Boomer Babies bombed the stock market again, forcing you to be financially inconvenienced through no fault of your own? If so,... Keep reading →

It's weird being Generation X. Most of the time you're completely invisible, which ironically suits this generation fine. A few times, you get tossed in with the Millennials when Boomers are talking or vice versa. But when you do get noticed and recognized, everybody seems to think we're hot stuff. Maybe because we were the last generation to learn to keep their trap shut. Confuc... Keep reading →

What better candidate for lyrical analysis than a song about history? And boy, what a history lesson! Strap in for a deep rabbit hole dive going back about 570 years, which nevertheless has ramifications still playing out today. We of course know this song from its modern popularity, the They Might Be Giants hit from their studio album ... Keep reading →