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2020: A year in review

12/19/2020

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Hi reader, welcome to the end of 2020. This is my year in review, where I list my favorite albums and songs from the year, talk about what happened in my life and get a little personal. 

To start: I can't believe I've been writing about music now for ten years, one third of my life. In 2010 I joined my college radio station, KWLC at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, as a substitute DJ, and then hosted my own show in 2011 and 2012 before graduating. I enjoyed sharing what I was spinning on the air each week so much, I found that I couldn't stop. So I started a Facebook page, then a Tumblr, and finally switched over to this (more official) website.

I moved to Minneapolis in 2012 and jumped in the deep end right away, never looking back. Since then, I've been to more than 400 hundred live shows and probably seen more than 1,000 different bands. Between 2012 and 2016, my life was spent in 7th St Entry, in Triple Rock and The Cedar—and in random people's living rooms every month for intimate and secret Sofar Sounds shows. My constant drive was to see live music and write about it, even if I usually never got paid for it. And as I spent most of my nights in dimly lit rooms with the people who defined what became "home," I became an adult. 

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My friend, my mentor, Rebecca Marx

10/6/2020

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Today I found out one my favorite people in the Twin Cities passed away the other week, and I want to share her with you.
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Rebecca Marx was a friend and a mentor in the music scene for several years before I moved to Colorado in 2016, and even then, I saw her when I came back over the holidays. We went to shows together, she was my editor at Rift Magazine — my first ever regular, paid music writing gig in my adult life — and heartily celebrated me getting into graduate school for journalism with one of my favorite nights out. She believed in me, supported me, made me laugh so much, and was so honest with me about her own life and its challenges. I loved Rebecca so much, and I know how much she loved the people in her life, including her husband Tony and her kids. I am so upset she's no longer with us but the world — and definitely my world and my career — were changed forever for the better by her being in it. 

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Miki Speer on grief, healing, and being an emerging performer during a global pandemic

7/23/2020

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Miki Speer is a musician and songwriter, who works to bridge the gap between grief and hope through both music and words. And she was just getting into the swing of things as a performing musician this past year when she ran into what she aptly calls, “the dumpster fire that is 2020.”

Speer currently is hunkered down in in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where she is taking online classes in songwriting and audio production at Slam Academy, and hosting a weekly show on Facebook live, The Healing Half, when she’s not doing her (now remote) day job.

I talked with Miki about her music, grief work, and the unique challenges she’s faced as an emerging musician during a global pandemic. 
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Do no harm: Why the music industry needs an oath

6/28/2020

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This piece has also been published by Bearded Gentlemen Music. 
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Whether it’s teenagers playing in a garage with friends and just learning an instrument, a band that is part of a small, local scene, someone signed to a big label and touring the world, a record label, or a venue—anyone who makes, distributes, writes about, or books music is part of the music industry. They are part of the culture and the community that makes and defines modern music. 

And the music industry has a major problem. It always has. It prizes and protects men and masculinity at all costs. Even at the cost of other musicians’ careers. At the cost of fans. Even at the cost of men. Even at the cost of human lives, mostly those of women.  

This past week, this problem has become extremely apparent in my home music community of Minneapolis and greater Minnesota.

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Anti-Racism Resources For White & Non Black Musicians

6/10/2020

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A Compilation of Anti-Racism Resources For White & Non Black Musicians
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A post from She Shreds, featuring podcasts, books, and action items collected from organizations, and individuals that they trust throughout social media and the internet.

That's it. That's the post. Now do the work. 
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