Author: Miles Raymer

It’s such a weird thing about people that music has such power over our emotions, yet we’re just as likely to use it to make… Read more

Back in the dinosaur days of the record industry, bootleg albums played a unique and underappreciated role in popular music. On one hand, they pioneered… Read more

This past weekend, Old Style and the Empty Bottle's third annual Chicago Pizza Summit brought Chicagoans together to celebrate three of the city's favorite things:… Read more

Since I started smoking pot in the late-1900s, things have come about as far as the Internet has in the same span of time. Dealers… Read more

Pinning down the first song written in any particular musical style is an impossible task. Genres don’t emerge fully formed from the mind of a… Read more

Janet Jackson is widely recognized one of the most influential female R&B artists of her generation, and one of the most successful pop stars of… Read more

The world is full of musicians past their prime, holding heads full of elaborate fantasies about what life would have been like had they received… Read more

I am several different kinds of Those People when it comes to my phone. Along with being one of Those People who’s got a really… Read more

Dave Cantrell, isn’t just a post-punk/darkwave obsessive, the host of XRAY.fm’s radio show Songs From Under the Floorboard, and the organizer Portland’s Out From the… Read more

While he was alive, sci-fi author Philip K. Dick was astoundingly productive. He cranked out over 120 short stories during the course of a professional… Read more

When you hear the words "Fender Musical Instruments Corporation," you probably think of aerodynamic-looking guitars and tweed amps. Fender's only made a handful of pedals… Read more

The first time I saw Juiceboxxx perform a little over a decade ago, he was a teenage kid in Milwaukee putting on weird DIY shows… Read more