Restless Leg Syndrome

"This is a snakeskin jacket! And for me it's a symbol of my individuality, and my belief... in personal freedom."

Hello, all. It’s been a while.

Loyal followers – all 12 of you – and anyone else who periodically stumbles upon this here blog: After graduating from our good ol’ alma mater of Boston University’s College of Communication with our heads raised high and our eyes glued open to stave off panic-dreams, we sat down and thought.

Well, mostly all we ever do is sit down and think, but this time the thinking was a more directed thinking, a thinking brought on by extreme panic and fear. And excitement! LOTS OF EXCITEMENT TOWARDS THE REAL WORLD.

Post-college is scary these days. I don’t know if you knew this, but there are no jobs, especially not for journalists. And while there are tons and tons of unpaid internships to be had and coffee cups to be filled, we want something more.

So, we’re embarking on a new project. After spending what seems like a lifetime (AND KIND OF IS) thinking about what music means to us, how it effects our lives in subtle and obvious ways, how it punctuates moments and inspires both good and bad ideas, we’re looking outside. We’re looking across America, actually. Or at least, we’re going to try to.

The main thing about American music is that…there is no main thing about it. There are a ton of micro-genres, niche genres, and mixed genres, with more cropping up every day. That’s great. Innovation is great. Yet, there are still a whole lot of people deliberately looking towards folk as their chosen means of expression. We’re gonna go take a look at how that’s going, and we’re gonna make a lot of motherfolkin puns along the way.

Focusing on folk music in America today, we’re setting out to speak to young musicians across the country about what folk music means to them and where they envision the music they play in regards to the large, rich history of folk music in American history. The project will begin in Boston, Massachusetts, and expand as far north and south as we can go with a Zipcar and very, very little money throughout the summer. Then, god, Allah and GaGa willing, we’ll take it on the road, pack up Bertha the Toyota Camry and head to infinity and beyond.

We hope you’ll keep checking back to this blog periodically as we will still try to update it occasionally, but we also encourage you to follow the progress of our folk project – tentatively called “Folk to Folk,” though we’re desperately seeking a better name – on our newly formed Tumblr.

Please feel free to give us recommendations of people to talk to, bands to listen to, books to read and sites to see. We need all the help we can get to make this project see the light of day.

Thank you all. Good night, and good luck.