Living on Music

ALEXANDRIA, VA – This morning I received a photo of Jim Morrison’s grave marker from a friend now living in France.  He said he bumped into it while touring the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, the largest cemetery in Paris, but also one of the most famous in the world. It attracts hundreds of thousands of …

WASHINGTON, DC – Living On Music With Steve Houk, the online music interview program that started in April 2020 as part of The Zebra Press‘ Z-TV online network, has been nominated for a 2022 Washington Area Music Award or Wammie, it was announced today. The program was nominated in the Music Media Award category, which …

ALEXANDRIA, VA – Think about it…if you have been one of the thousands of lucky people who have gone to shows at the storied Alexandria venue called The Birchmere over the last few decades, you very likely have your favorite “place” inside the treasured music hall’s current location off Mount Vernon Avenue. Maybe it’s the …

By Steve Houk, Living On Music In the 19 months that I have hosted Living On Music on the Zebra Press’ Z-TV, I have heard four words from nearly every one of the 90 or so musicians I have interviewed. Four words that always bring resounding smiles, that cause robust recollections of joyful times performing …

You’ve heard their agonizingly painful stories for months, and every time, it cuts to the core. Musicians everywhere, across our region, across the country and across the world, whose livelihood relies on being out and about and connected and engaged, finding themselves crestfallen and beaten down by the loss of live gigs, losing precious time …

For many of us, life’s long and winding road of ups and downs can either be a grinding detriment, or a  blooming inspiration. For Juliana MacDowell, when it comes down to where she is now in her life, it has to be the latter, for sure. MacDowell has been through it all, a childhood chock …

For a guy who plays over 250 live gigs a year in all sorts of welcoming locations, venues and assorted environs, a guy who basically lives and breathes live performances, the last year could have been truly disastrous for Jason Masi. It all started out as something that shook Masi to the core, but as …

ALEXANDRIA, VA – These days, the options people have to listen to music are vast. Music streams everywhere, the sources for finding any song, any album, are available in an overwhelming myriad of ways. But that hasn’t stopped terrestrial radio — where content is broadcast by a land-based radio station and and received locally as …

For rising country music singer/songwriter Sam Grow, not being able to play music as the pandemic unfolded was, like it was for many other musicians, akin to not being able to breathe. “Since I was 16, all I’ve ever done was play music for a living,” Grow tells host Steve Houk on this Monday’s episode …

If you mention even just the name of the revered, respected and gleefully enjoyed rock and roll collaboration experience, the now 25-year-and-still-going-strong Rock And Roll Fantasy Camp, the first instinct for many is to think that the bulk of the joy that is created at each four-day camp session is felt mostly by the campers. …