music essay

How Perry Serpa made a real tribute album to a fictional classic album.

“It fascinated me that this 42-year-old who had already imparted his joy and wisdom through his songs into my life was just figuring himself out now.”

“‘People are not pieces of paper, after all.’ No, he thought, but they can be reduced to that with the right equipment.”

"Although everybody is human, real stars do exist."

“Something that promises to heal not just one wound, but all wounds, is very tempting to believe.”

Tim Kasher discusses his jump from music to film.

Digital Garbage makes Cassie Ramone feel like a teenage boy at a skatepark in the '80s.

Danko Jones on questionable stains and making it on the radio.

The Hail The Sun frontman's letter to himself from the other side of addiction.

"I will ride for My Chemical Romance to the grave, because, from 2002 to 2012, they rode for both you and me."

"In Gainesville, a man once stopped his pickup truck to roll down the window to say 'I’d be dead if it weren’t for you.'"

"Depression is like waking up beside someone in your bed who claims to know and love you, and having absolutely no recollection of who they are."