Michael Louis - Musician

Rock and Roll is dead. It’s gone the way of Beat writers, parachute pants, and avocado-colored kitchen appliances.  It’s been reduced to nostalgia for “dinosaurs.” I’m not convinced that the average person even listens to music anymore, shitty or otherwise…

Now that I am “middle-aged,” and nostalgia rears its ugly head more often, I realize how beautiful a place it is that I grew up in.  Like everyone I’ve ever known, during childhood I absolutely hated my life and wanted…

Gen Z may scoff at Xianity and/or other traditional societal values, but as a whole, they are vastly more repressive.  The Left has become more tyrannical than the Right ever thought of in the way of censorship. Lefty authoritarianism is…

I don’t care about politics, family, having children, dating, marrying, climate change, who cancelled who or why, the cost of eggs, your opinions, the Ukraine, the Middle East, income disparity, religion, what’s trending on Netflix, what’s trending on social media,…

As someone who loves music played by humans who use real instruments, I fear for the future of the artform that I have devoted my life to.  While I don’t see the absolute death of music occurring in my lifetime,…

The Rickenbacker bass is a beautifully cultivated work of art.  I have loved these instruments since the wee age of 9 years old, when I first heard that fuzzy, guttural growl, punching through the mix on old Rush records.  I…

I’m absolutely fine with not being considered “Punk” or “Goth” anymore.  Both genres have taken tremendous downturns in the internet age and I’m happy to distance myself from them.  There was a time when musical subcultures were fun, an escape…

Musicians’ classifieds – there is truly no other form of free advertising like it.  You’ll find everything from the novice to the not-good-enough-to-even-be-a-novice in these online dead zones.  Since the advent of the internet, I believe that more and more…

What negative media headline should put me in a tailspin today?  What ill-perceived social injustice do I rail against today?  Who do I “cancel?”  Tell me! I need to know.  I can’t think for myself.  I need the herd to…

My favorite holiday is Halloween.  As it coincides with my second favorite time of the year (my number one being the dead of winter), historically, it has always been a creative time for me.  I typically buckle down on and…