by Rich Bunnell

As part of her studies in environmental behavior, my wife (and invisible Discord & Rhyme co-host) Jen researched interest, which is not to say compound interest, but the concept of being interested in things. And though some of what piques a person’s interest is in their genes, it’s just as much a quantum roll of the die. So while I fully plan to be the dad chucking a copy of Remain in Light in the Onion article “Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out of Touch With Her Generation,” I know that it’s fully possible my kids will turn on music, because that’s what I did with my dad and cars.

by Rich Bunnell

Amanda recently wrote an excellent blog post about her realization that she experiences synesthesia, a perceptual phenomenon where people’s senses overlap with one another. I’m a synesthete as well, and I wanted to write my own post, both to illustrate that different people experience the phenomenon in remarkably different ways, and because I’ve been aware of my own synesthesia for more than a decade, and this awareness has subtly shaped how I experience the world and especially music for quite a while.

by Rich Bunnell

On Discord & Rhyme, I frequently refer to a song being “a good track two,” which may seem completely arbitrary in the era of streaming and shuffle. But I mean it every time, and I mean it even more as we get further into this epic project obsessing over the dying art of the album. Similar to how film editing is part of what turns a bunch of shots into a movie, sequencing is part of what turns a bunch of songs into an album. When a critic rolls out the cliche that an album is more than the sum of its parts, in a majority of cases it means that the album was really well sequenced.

by Rich Bunnell

Hi everyone,

I’m stunned that less than a year into this project, there are people — some of whom we haven’t even met! — who are actually willing to pay money for what we do. As much as we promote our “tip jar” on the show, Discord & Rhyme is foremost a passion project by eight friends who have kept all of this obsessive energy bottled up for years and finally have an outlet. Patreon covers our hosting and equipment costs, reimburses us for the time and work we put in to every episode, and hopefully will eventually grow to a level where we can start directly supporting the artists we cover.