Music Stories: Features, Interviews, Guides
I've written about music a lot. Like, a lot. No, a big lot.
I'm in the process of uploading stories and links. Stay tuned; this could take a while.
Related: Find my concert reviews and other mouthy opinions here.
Cover story for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/guitar-zero-the-search-is-on-for-st-louis-air-apparent/Content?oid=2503644
Sidebars:
* Dr. Pepper endorsement: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2013/06/28/dr-pepper-teams-with-air-guitar-champion-for-commercial-deal
Cover story for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/IssueArchives?issue=2350044
Producer and interviewer for An Under Cover Weekend music festival video series. Learn about the project and watch more videos: https://www.behance.net/gallery/5044645/An-Under-Cover-Weekend-Video-Series
Print and digital feature for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2014/04/09/sex-and-the-symphony-ben-folds-explains-why-orchestral-music-is-the-best-aphrodisiac. This went EVERYWHERE.
Review for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2014/04/14/ben-folds-slso-sex-up-powell-hall-4-13-14-review-setlist
Blog post for BrainJet: http://www.brainjet.com/pop-culture/49901/what-will-it-take-for-yes-to-be-inducted-into-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame. Glad to see that the Rock Hall eventually took my advice.
Producer and interviewer for An Under Cover Weekend music festival video series. Learn about the project and watch more videos: https://www.behance.net/gallery/5044645/An-Under-Cover-Weekend-Video-Series
Print and digital feature for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/adrenaline-boost-music-is-more-than-a-soundtrack-for-sports/Content?oid=2502900
Print and digital feature for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/the-kids-are-all-right-rft-music-experiments-on-children/Content?oid=2503941
So here's a weird thing: I may have helped take down a radio station. I mean, I'm sure it wasn't just me. But Louie 103.7 FM wasn't doing itself any favors with the bro-rock. As shown below, I first reported that the station was showing some unusual activity:
When Louie 103.7 FM finally revealed itself, it was.. a disappointment. A Homer Simpson. The guy at the bar you protect your drink from. It was for people who say "Dude" a lot and have literal penis-measuring contests. And I wasn't a fan:
This piece for Riverfront Times started out as a very long blog post and morphed into a print feature: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2014/06/20/new-1037-fm-says-man-up-forgets-women-who-dont-wear-bikinis-exist
Turns out, not many people in St. Louis were fans of the station. Louis 103.7 FM went off the air in less than a year and a half. Womp, womp.
This sucker generated SO MUCH RESPONSE. I wish that the paper hadn't changed blog systems and wiped out the story comments, because they were choice. Everything from "But I NEED another station to play ACDC" to "Allison must be a man-hating, militant lesbian" (not a bad thing to be, TBH) was thrown out there by RFT commenters. Louie even kind of stalked me on Facebook and Twitter. It was pretty glorious.
Anyway, that was fun. Moving on!
Producer and interviewer for An Under Cover Weekend music festival video series. Learn about the project and watch more videos: https://www.behance.net/gallery/5044645/An-Under-Cover-Weekend-Video-Series
In 2013 and 2014, I was the queen of LouFest. Ok, not officially the queen, but I wrote enough about the music festival to deserve some kind of royal title. Instead displaying partial clips, I'm just going to squish up headlines below to save space. Nearly all of these got a lot of play, and one of the LouFest founders told me that he particularly liked the "Overheard During the National" piece.
Blog post for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2014/03/26/outkast-will-be-performing-at-lollapalooza-what-does-that-mean-for-loufest. I was a great detective, TBH.
Blog post for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2014/05/13/outkast-arctic-monkeys-cake-to-headline-loufest-2014-full-lineup-within
Social roundup for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2014/09/09/loufest-musicians-tweet-love-for-st-louis
Photo roundup for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2014/09/07/the-high-fashion-of-loufest-2014
Photo roundup for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2014/09/09/the-best-photos-from-loufest-2014
Photo roundup for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2014/09/08/15-people-who-are-totally-over-loufest
Blog post for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2013/09/08/i-didnt-get-any-sex-things-overheard-during-the-nationals-set-at-loufest
Review for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2013/09/09/no-surprises-as-the-killers-rock-loufest-review-photos-setlist
Print and digital feature for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2014/05/27/design-organization-lauds-popular-mechanics-album-art
Digital feature for Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2015/04/06/st-louis-misfits-tribute-band-we-bite-has-a-hearse-now-fittingly
Featured post for ReviewSTL: https://www.reviewstl.com/a-flood-of-support-concert-bbq-to-benefit-joplin/
I kept a Tumblr called "Listz" for a while. It didn't achieve the stats that bloggers today enjoy, but it did ok considering it was just a lark. The tumbleweed also helped me land a "STL's Sexiest Cybergeek" honor. What a résumé builder.
I dropped Tumblr after I started getting paid for independent writing, though, because there simply wasn't enough time in the day or enough neurons in my brain. Sometimes I think about picking it up again.
