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 […]
On the 5th anniversary of Prince’s passing, I’m revisiting the words I wrote just hours after the news broke in 2016. “So here I sit in my lonely room, looking 4 my sunshine…” 11:01AM, Thursday, April 21, 2016. It’s quiet. I’ve turned off the TV to shut out the annoying noise that is ABC’s The […]
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