September 13, 1987, marks the date that young Shahrzad Fooladi was born in Uppsala, Sweden. When you hear that statement you might not understand the significance musically, but there is a reason I begin with that sentence. The name might not be familiar to music fans, but her stage name is gaining prominence worldwide. Let’sRead More
“Now that’s real music! It’s not like that other stuff they play on the radio these days.” I’ve heard those words many times throughout my years of writing for Weekly Music Commentary. That and also, “I never heard of him (or her).” Many members of my family and friends are unfamiliar with today’s popular musicRead More
Last week a high school friend of mine was reminiscing about his time working with several metal bands. He spoke at length about the rigors of the business of maintaining a band. It’s not all fun and games, in fact what you see and hear when a band performs is the end result of muchRead More
When you first read the title of this post, you might think that it is nothing special. Every musician creates and performs music for everyone. Usually personal thoughts and feelings are constructed in lyrical form, but the artist wants every one of us to hear and feel what they sing and play. Throughout history thisRead More
I am back after taking a week off and I feel recharged. Even though the business end of maintaining this site does not take a vacation, it still is good to give the brain a little break once in a while. Also, it’s good to come back with a feature of one of our promisingRead More
Well, we have reached the end of the month of May 2020. There are major events marking the halfway point of this year with a lot of uncertainty ahead. Music is like everything else as we hope for normality, however we don’t really know what normal is anymore. For now, at least at Weekly MusicRead More
There have been several times when a planned post does not publish. When I started Weekly Music Commentary, I realized that though there are fifty-two week in a year, there are thousands of musical artists who qualify as good subjects for a feature. In fact, on a given week there could be twenty or moreRead More
