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As if this Music Monday could be about anything else. Beyoncé headlined Coachella this past weekend and I am still recovering from watching the live-stream of the event. She was the first black woman to headline Coachella and she made her historic performance one to be remembered. I was lucky enough to witness the wonder…
My love affair with pop music is a well-documented and complicated one. pre-teen Julie was all about the pop music, *Nsync, Spice Girls, the Queen herself: Britney Spears, they were all constantly playing in my house. My parents hated pre-teen Julie … and also teen Julie, she was a mess. As I grew older and…
Kelly Clarkson is quickly becoming one of my favorite artists. I raved about her latest album, Meaning of Life, when it came out last year and now here I am ready to rave about her latest single, “I Don’t Think About You”. She just released a music video to accompany the single and it is a…
Sometimes inspiration hits you right before you give up and go to bed. My weekend has been full of family chaos and I had completely forgotten that our monthly Hamildrop would be released at midnight. So here I am wasting an hour of my night looking for a song to feature on this week’s Music…
I promise to not make the entirety of this website about my depression but now that I’m starting to feel like a normal human being again, I feel the need to analyze what’s been going on with me lately. Climbing out of depression is difficult. You must arm yourself with time and patience in order…
The last few weeks have been emotional. I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve written anything and it wasn’t for lack of trying. I’ve been in a real funk lately and the funk has been accompanied with crippling writer’s block. The last thing I want to do is bring the party down, but…
My love affair with Johnnyswim has been well documented on this website. I’d like to say that there’s a fine line between being a fan of their music and being absolutely obsessed, but at this point that line is blurry and I can no longer tell the difference. I mean, there’s a reason why when…
It started with a Jake Gyllenhaal interview; there I was at 2 am in the morning watching a random interview while Jake described his love of music. This interview then made me to remember that Jake (we’re on a first name basis by now) is a fan of Iron & Wine, which in turn made…
I have a playlist on Spotify that is titled “THIS IS R&B” and every song is bout 15 years old; it pains me that there is no current music in that playlist. R&B has gone through some changes throughout the years and I am still struggling to find music that gives me Jagged Edge, Kci…
One of the things I’ve always been good at is apologizing for myself; I’m too emotional, I feel too deeply, my attentiveness may sometimes feel overbearing, my friendship may just be too much to handle and I am sorry. I have found a way to consistently blame myself when relationships don’t work out. I have…