New Bands for Old Heads
Gabbie, Jeff Van Dreason, Jacqui Devaney, Caroline in the Garden, Queen Kwong, The RiriverseNew music recommendations, essays, and community for people who don't keep up with new music. The record store experience, sans snobbery.
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New music recs for people who don't keep up with new music. Please don't DM with music submissions \ud83d\ude4f There's a link on my website for exactly that.
Co-creator of Greater Boston podcast. Writer and sound designer. College administrator and writing professor.
writer, selector and DJ in austin texas
I make: unhinged adult contemporary (Kate Bush + Phil Collins?). I write about: making music, cultivating creativity, relinquishing control, staying curious and letting your art blow with the winds. AI never. Transparency always.
Not fun but funny ...candid writer, loud musician, founder of Sick records, death worker.
just an ordinary Rita making music
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