Tweet When asked how the music industry has evolved and how this album came about, Matthew Mayfield stated “I feel like the business of music is changing–but people’s hunger for great songs has stayed the same.  It’s a lot harder to get people to pay for your art these days–so you need to make it [...]

Tweet THE MUSIC WORLD is having a full-on identity crisis. As much as people are drawn to the spectacle of the flashing lights and over-the-top over-produced music (long live Lady Gaga), there also seems to be a movement of music lovers seeking a more exposed and honest sound.  That stripped, under-produced simplicity of a well-crafted song is a refreshing [...]

Tweet 2009 has been rich in friends, music, family, and love. I can’t believe that in a few days, we will be in the next decade!  I spend hours and hours searching for the best music you’ve (or I’ve) never heard and put only the best on this site.  Some may say that I’m obsessed. Instead, [...]

Tweet Could the grocery store be the new hotbed for music? Probably not – but I have been noticing a trend.  I was walking through Publix supermarket when Fleet Foxes’s Mykonos - (recently dubbed part of the “bearded folk” movement) was playing on the overhead speaker.  Then, I heard a song by a Nashville-based emerging singer/songwriter named Griffin House.  What?  When did [...]

Tweet Welcome to Part 2 of the Matthew Mayfield interview: All Access Before the days of the Internet, we had very limited ways of having access to our favorite musicians. When I was a little girl, I used to get up early every single morning, run downstairs to my giant wood paneled TV, turn on [...]

Tweet The absolute power of music never ceases to amaze me. What else can make you feel nostalgic, sad, grateful, confident, warm and fuzzy, chills down your spine, relaxed, joyful, lost, and found? And sometimes all at once! So with all this infinite power, it should be easy for music to mend a broken heart, [...]