Year Three in Review
Since Strange Currencies was inaugurated on December 31, 2019, it’s become something of a custom to send each year off with a look back at the siRead More…
Category: Strange Currencies Blog
A Sort of Hiatus…
I’d like to think that when I started Strange Currencies at the beginning of 2020, I did so with few delusions. I figured that supportive frienRead More…
Another Year of Strange Currencies
Today marks the second anniversary of the founding of Strange Currencies Music. Coming into year two, I had several goals for the site – each of Read More…
On Rejuvenation, Community, and Album Ratings
I registered the domain for Strange Currencies in the final minutes of December 31, 2019. It was on that same date that officials in Wuhan first Read More…
Strange Currencies Re-Dedicated
Today marks the beginning of a new era for Strange Currencies. For the past sixteen months, this site has largely served as my own outlet – partlRead More…
Phil Spector, 1939-2021
To be an obsessive fan of any artistic medium forces one to often wrestle with the “separating art from artist” argument. Pop music provides no mRead More…
A Year of Strange Currencies
It was on New Year’s Eve last year that I secured the strangecurrenciesmusic.com domain, and began putting a years-in-the-making plan into actionRead More…
The Empires Strike Back
I don’t come from a family of musicians. I have memories of my great uncle and uncle (neither blood-related) playing guitar at family gatheringRead More…
All Roads Lead to R.E.M.
“Why Strange Currencies?” Because it had to be an R.E.M. reference. There were other options that I liked just as much, or perhaps even more, Read More…
Prospectus
About a year ago, a friend of mine asked a perfectly reasonable question when I told him that I was thinking about starting a music website. Read More…