We sing to free ourselves from the room We love the sound, the sound is what found us Sound is the love between me and you. –Wild Flag, “Romance” My previous post celebrated the music of Wild Flag … their song “Glass Tambourine,” in particular … to show that music writing can be about […]

  There’s an old saying about music writing, usually attributed to Frank Zappa or Elvis Costello, that goes, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” In researching this further, it seems that Elvis got the quote from, of all people, comedian Martin Mull. Mull’s full quote was, “Writing about music is like dancing about […]