music essay

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."

However clever you are, whatever system you think of for trying to understand the world, there's always things which you can never know.

"I talk about my identity openly because of the Indigenous and queer voices that were silenced before me."

“If I can get 10 people in an audience to sing 'love, sweet love' along with me, then I’ve done my job.”

"I had no examples nor understanding of what I was going through, and I definitely never saw an R&B artist who embodied what I was to become."

Mark Borchardt (American Movie) talks his foray into directing music videos.

Since 1987, Swans has been the soundtrack to Jon Mueller's existence.

"In those instants, sloppily crooning alone to 'Forget Me Never,' I knew music had me in a chokehold."

A treatise on the humanity (or, lack thereof) of teaching guitar lessons.