Emily Kinney – The Story of “Mermaid Song”
I’ve never thought of myself as a mermaid. So, when the first words of Emily Kinney’s single drifted in softly over steady claps and deep humming synths, I’d be lying if I said I immediately related to her sentiment. I am a mermaid that you dreamt. Swimming away while you slept. My reaction was more […]
Anthony Alvarado – The Story of “Proper Place”
There’s so much pain in the world. I’m so grateful for the music that enters into it with grace. Specifically, I’m grateful for Anthony Alvarado’s music. Anthony reached out to me after reading our piece on Corey Kilgannon – his newest EP, To Stutter, to Yell was actually produced by Corey, and the pair collaborate on […]
Two Story Melody is One of Feedspot’s Top 75 Songwriting Blogs
So this is pretty cool – the team at Feedspot reached out this week to let me know that Two Story Melody was named one of their top 75 songwriting blogs. Full disclosure: we’re not the number one songwriting blog on the list. We are also not in the top ten. Or the top thirty. […]
Nimbus Cloud – The Story of “If Things Were Different”
Don’t you ever wish things were different? One of my personal hangups in life is a stupid amount of worry over whether people like me. Like, I’ll have a routine interaction, and then spend way too much energy over-analyzing it to find out if the thing I said sounded weird to the other person. If […]
Corey Kilgannon – The Story of “Soft Gentle Brilliant II”
Corey Kilgannon showed up in my Spotify Discover Weekly a couple of years ago with the beautiful, troubled poetry of “The Rhine.” I’m really glad he did. Because I (and probably you, too) need more good poetry in my life. Like most good poets, Corey has the gift of articulating things in ways that simultaneously […]
Megan Davies – The Story of “Doesn’t Matter”
What I’ve always loved most about music is that you can create something that feels so personal, and have it end up becoming personal to somebody else, too. Megan Davies has a feel for music like that. I’m not really sure where it comes from, but I think maybe it’s related to her experience in […]
Patric Johnston – The Story of “Gold”
Man, this song grooves. That’s what I thought the first time I heard “Gold”, by Patric Johnston. 84 listens later, and I’m still feeling it. One of my favorite questions to ask artists is: what makes a song good? People offer a lot of answers, but almost all of them are centered around this vague emotive reaction […]
Vug Arakas – The Story of “Lines of Love”
A few years ago, I went to a Bruce Springsteen concert with my dad. It was in this vast, old, rickety concrete arena that was absolutely packed with a very middle-aged crowd. To be honest, I didn’t grow up on Springsteen; I could’ve named probably three songs of his before that night (“Born in the USA”, […]
Elvea – The Story of “Breathing Underwater”
Elvea is one of those musicians who’s definitely an artist, in the fullest sense of the word. I mean that she’s a creator to the core. But I also mean it in the first, more literal sense, too – like, she’s a painter. With music. Something in the sounds she chooses evokes painting to me. There’s […]
Tyson Motsenbocker – The Story of “Memphis”
I’m not good with change. I think that’s why I like Tyson Motsenbocker’s music. Tyson, by proof of his songs and his own admission, is also a person who struggles with change. He’s had to deal with it in profound ways; he lost his mom to cancer, and a lot of his available material is centered around that experience, on […]
