Back in March, I had the absolute pleasure of attending and presenting at the Pop Con ’25 conference hosted at USC’s Thornton School of Music. This year’s conference theme, “Baby, It’s a Look: Pop Music, Fashion, and Style at the Edge,” invited an array of topics, conversations, and scholarly explorations. For the panel I was […]
What a year 2024 has been! I kicked things off in February with the release of my single “Love Letters,” and I’m closing out the year with a new song that’s very near and dear to my heart. And…honestly…it’s only new to you; I actually wrote it in early 2010. On December 20, 2009, my […]
Spring kicked off in high gear with PopCon ’24 Legacy! Legacy! at USC in early March, and it was a TIME! Two full days packed with the best in music scholarship fed my soul. There were so many highlights, including the opening night keynote with Dr. Funkenstein, George Clinton, in conversation with the brilliant music […]
I debuted my new single, “Love Letters,” exclusively on Bandcamp in early February. Why, you may ask? Well, as an independent artist, Bandcamp allows me to connect directly with the people who actively support my music; when they purchase a song or an album, I’m able to see who they are and, most importantly, thank […]
Sometime towards the end of 2023, I decided to take a leap and submit a proposal to for Pop Con 2024. Over the past couple years I’ve had the opportunity to nerd out in public with presentations about Prince‘s music, but I hadn’t yet ventured into the waters beyond talking about my favorite artist. I’m […]
I know. It’s been nearly 2 years since I’ve made any updates to my site. I’m trying to do better! Since the last time I posted here, so much has happened! As you may recall, in February 2022 I released my single “Alright,” and the EP it calls home, ‘LOVER,’ arrived in July of that […]
If there’s one thing about me that never changes, it’s that I’m a sucker for love and an even bigger sucker for a good love song. From my first forays into putting pen to paper to bring my original songs to life at the age of 11, to sometime last week when I put the […]
The Family’s self-titled Paisley Park album debuted in August 1985, and was the first and only collection from the group on the label. Thanks to the Purple Avengers, a motley group of Prince music enthusiasts and historians assembled by Deejay UMB on Twitter, who, along with Edgar Cruize, created the #PrinceTwitterThread series, we’re showing this […]
In celebration of Wendy & Lisa’s brilliant ‘Girl Bros.,’ released 4 September 1998, I decided to re-post a blog I wrote in 2014 about how the album has guided me through tremendous loss and how the music endures all these years later. October 1998. I had just moved to Burbank, and was getting settled into […]
I had the extraordinary pleasure of interviewing singer/songwriter Jill Jones in 2016 as part of my Artist to Artist column for the now-defunct SoulTrain.com–just a couple months before Prince passed, as she prepared to release her album ‘I Am.’ This week, I’m joining a crew of fellow Prince music heads, aka the Purple Avengers, for […]
