A new beginning

I've decided to take my hubs in a different direction...I know my poetry is awful so seriously, who's going to come back to read that stuff? If you want to read any interviews or articles I've done for my publication you can read those on the website. 

I don't know if you'll like what I'm going to write here, I can only give it a go and see what happens. I was sitting here thinking about what people might actually find entertaining and interesting and I realized that what I never put out there are my experiences as a Music Journalist and Editor in Chief. I have had nights where I go out and I watch terrible bands play in terrible venues, drinking terrible beer and I'm home in bed before midnight, but then there have been nights that have lasted till dawn and been a complete riot!

I know in my bio I state that this job kind of fell into my lap and that is true... here's how it all began. 

My Dad is a HUGE music fan, his taste is impeccable and his knowledge of up and coming bands is something I've always envied. How embarrassing to have your DAD tell you what's cool in the music scene?? He told me that he was on Myspace, this wonderful place to find new music and bands, unsigned and indie stuff that you won't find anywhere else. I had thought that Myspace was a place that you hung out at if you wanted to end up on dateline with Brian Hansen. But I checked it out, signed up and started searching for the bands I already knew and liked....Editors, The Rifles, The Bravery... and to my delight, they all had pages with a handful of songs that I could listen to. I also found out that Editors were releasing a new album and that I could stop looking for The Rifles album as it wasn't available in the US. Of course I also started to get tons of requests from bands I'd never heard of before. Some were great, but about 99% of these requests were from "metal" bands. I didn't realize that "metal" meant everyone thrashed around on their instruments willy nilly while someone screamed inaudibly. My experience of metal was Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns and Roses and Megadeth which is now called "Old School Metal". I realized that on some levels I was very much out of the loop when it came to music. 

Then a local band started to email me and chat back and forth. I found this kind of strange but enjoyed this new idea of "social networking" (I was so green with the internet back then, it makes me laugh now). They got an interview with this new magazine that was based on Myspace and were promoting the heck out of them, recommending that we add them to our friends, so I did. I looked at this page and enjoyed reading the few interviews that they had at the time as they were a very new entity, even added a few of the bands they liked. Then their Editor in Chief started to leave comments on my page, which turned into emails. We talked about music- mostly older stuff that I had grown up on. Despite my lack of knowledge of new music, I had good taste and knew a lot about music from back then. I guess I impressed him because one day he asked me to come up with some questions for a band and gave me a link. It was one of those loud scary metal bands, but they were from a country that doesn't allow western style music, headbanging and dancing so I was intrigued. The more I looked into this band, the more I appreciated what they were doing and started to hear melody that my discrimination against metal music had made me deaf to before. I came up with a bunch of questions and sent them back. That was my first ever interview and I have been doing this ever since.

I really wish I had known about this wonderful career back when I was in school and could have catered my education towards it. I feel like I wasted years taking the wrong subjects in college and trying to find my way in this world, but I'm home now.