by Ben Marlin

When I talk about Olive Garden pop music, most people know what I mean. They remember restaurant visits where they felt like family; and they can picture the genre's greatest hits, like this one by Frank Sinatra:

"Hey, ring a ding ding, jocko!" ::sharp horn riff:: ::drum fill:: "Get a load of that broad!" ::more horns:: "Las Vegas, baby!"

by Benjamin Marlin

Discord & Rhyme is a podcast where we discuss our favorite albums, song by song. That said, we don't discuss all of our favorite albums. In our travels, we've discovered that some albums carry an episode better than others do. 

by Benjamin Marlin

"Criticism", by definition, sounds like it should be negative. The word brings to mind bitter keyboard jockeys who couldn't make it in the arts and, consequently, pledged to burn it all down. (If you're David Lee Roth, it also brings to mind a bunch of guys who look like Elvis Costello.)

by Benjamin Marlin

The future of music consumption appears to be streaming services: Spotify, Apple Music, Google Music, and the Jay-Z one. For a few dollars each month, these services allow people to stream millions of songs to their smartphones and bluetooth speakers. It's an amazing innovation, perhaps the best tool ever invented for making music easy to access and play.