My name is Julien and I am a music writer. This blog is a platform for me to write about whatever music I am enjoying and cover artists I don’t get to cover at work
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Concert Review: Death Cab for Cutie Will Possess Your Heart
This is a review of Death Cab for Cutie’s 2018 Thank You For Today Tour performance at The Palace Theater in St. Paul. Available here on YouTube. The piece was written for a college writing class. When, less than twenty minutes into the show, Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard says to the audience…
Scott Hutchison Writes the Incomprehensibly Comprehensible
Due to my activity on other publications, posting here will consist mainly of pieces written as assignments for college. The following piece was written as an assignment for a course in music criticism. When I first listened to “Keep Yourself Warm,” from Frightened Rabbit’s 2006 album The Midnight Organ Fight, I was laughingly uncomfortable and…
(Indie) Music for Finals Season
Apologies again for the absence. It is finals season and for those of us fully enrolled in college, hobbies have taken to the curb. Expect regular publication to resume on or around December 7th. There is certainly no such thing as the “best” study music. While many reports have supported classical music, particularly Beethoven and…