Light Up Schmaltz
Sam CantorThe official Minor Moon newsletter. Written by Sam Cantor.
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Playing Live in 2025
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Light Up Schmaltz is back, just in time for schmaltz season. Tis the season of misty eyed retrospectives, and making sense of another (chaotic) year in the wide world. For me, 2025 has consisted of being disorient...
If We Burn the Mood Machine Pt. II: Chicago Off Spotify
Today I’m writing about an open letter campaign I’ve helped to organize over the past few weeks: Chicago musicians are pulling music off of Spotify. The letter was announced on Monday morning with 36 signatures, each from an artist willing...
Minor Moon August '25 Tour
Today I’m just sharing a quick update about our August tour. I’ll be hitting the road with an incredible band including Sam Subar on drums, Meredith Nesbitt on bass and Sam Genualdi on lap steel and 6 string guitar. We had a warm send off s...
If We Burn the Mood Machine
The Light Up Waltz turned one year old back on April 12th. Since then, I’ve made half a dozen or so attempts at writing about how the album’s meaning has evolved for me over that time, and how playing songs from that record feels these days...
Speaking of Pharaohs
You know times are uncertain when the default response to “how are you doing?” is “hanging in there.” I prefaced last month’s post with a little warning label about things getting more personal and political in that post. This month will be...
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