What’s GrooveCue?

I’d like to think of GrooveCue as a combination blog and record label – the blog part allowing me to shine a light on music that I dig that might be getting lost in the social media shuffle, the record label part allowing me to release music by myself and my peers without being a slave to other labels’ release schedules. Here’s a little more about my vision:

 lost control of music promotion

In 2020, despite the technology to make music being as accessible as it’s ever been, the control over who is able to get real reach and placement for their music is basically entirely in the hands of the streaming services and social media. Between Facebook’s constant algorithm changes and extortion on page accounts to Spotify playlists that charge for placement, it feels like the artist-centric model we had going so well during the earlier years of the internet could use a bit of a reprise. I miss the days of artists posting random SoundCloud bootlegs just because they felt like it, not worried about copyright clearance or if they had the right “assets” for the release. Of blogs with pages and pages of posts that you could spend an entire evening digging through for some unheard gold. Musical freedom, not slave to a playlist. This is my contribution to trying to bring that culture back.

As far as the kind of music that we will feature, the tagline up in the top left will give you a good idea: “The Funkier Side Of Dance Music.” If you’ve ever listened to my music or seen me DJ, the one common thread amidst all my genre hopping and different vibes is that if it isn’t somewhat funky sounding, I’m probably not gonna dig it that much. At GrooveCue I want to embrace the more human side of electronic music, to blur the line between what’s analog and what’s electronic. Traditional funk combined influences from R&B, Soul, and Jazz and packaged it up with a fun, dancy beat into some of the greatest tunes of all time. The popular dance music these days has been trending towards dark, minimal, and aggressive, so I want to provide a space for a little bit more funky energy — just because the music is emotional doesn’t mean it has to be dark or aggressive–Personally, I’d rather dance out my feelings than headbang.

I am also proud that GrooveCue is the first music related blog on the LexBlog Network! Hosting this site through LexBlog (who kindly gives it to me for free as an employee) allows me to do so unencumbered by worrying about money — there will never be ads or sponsored posts, only awesome music!

What kind of content can we expect?

Ramblings from me about the state of the music industry, round-ups of my favorite new music, awesome original music releases, and compilation albums, production / DJing tips, and thoughts about life. I hope this can be a place where awesome music is shared in a way where we can actually remember it later on, rather than having to scroll endlessly and hope we find it again somewhere in the social media void. I hope you will join me!