This blog originally posted at http://mariancall.wordpress.com/booking-a-house-concert/rule-one-attending-my-concerts/

I found I needed this, so I made it.  Just to refer back to when people have questions and I’m running too fast to answer.

Do you have questions about attending one of my shows? Here’s my notions, and why I notion them. There’s an important rule that I call Rule One of Concertgoing, and that will pretty much have you covered. Continue reading →

This blog originally posted at http://mariancall.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/a-little-help-please-the-something-fierce-pseudo-scholarship-fund/

So I made this new double album and it rocks.  I am totally proud of it. You can be listening to it for free while you read the rest of this blog by the way, just click here and hit play. Continue reading →

This blog originally posted at http://mariancall.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/in-which-i-officially-cover-they-might-be-giants/

THERE IS NEW MUSIC FROM ME!  TODAY!

Here I am on a record called Mink Car Cover and it’s now on sale! http://minkcarcover.bandcamp.com/album/mink-car-cover

If you are a fan of They Might Be Giants I hope you know their great album Mink Car.  It’s canon for me and my family.  I was thrilled to be invited to record a cover of the song “Hovering Sombrero” (with extra accordion) for this officially approved album cover project. All proceeds go to the FDNY Foundation.  You can read more at http://minkcarcover.com/ and see all the other amazing artists involved! Continue reading →

This blog originally posted at http://marianmarginalia.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/my-real-actual-influences/

So I made a list once upon a time of my musical/artistic influences, and wrote them down and touted them proudly.  But my parents saw that list and called baloney.  So with their help I’ve drawn up a more accurate list of childhood influences, as well as the roster of the top 10 most influential albums I’ve loved and listened to in becoming a musical self.  Here ya go, world, more honesty.  In no particular order, stuff I listened to a gazillion times at some point in my youth, with a few I’ve spun enough times to make the list even though I came to them in college or after: Continue reading →

This blog originally posted at http://marianmarginalia.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/good-girls-should-try-not-to-be-born-on-mardi-gras/

…if it’s at all convenient.  My birthday is on February 24th, and this year it fell on Fat Tuesday, as it is occasionally wont to do.  It was a tough birthday this year — no celebrating, really. Continue reading →

This blog originally posted at http://marianmarginalia.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/a-song-crowdsourced-from-twitter/

So once I was bored in Hollywood.  Bored at Le Pain Quotidien in Brentwood to be more specific, since I’d been stood up for a meeting. Now, bored is really not my M.O. — on principle I am almost never bored — but Twitter is always there for me in such emergencies.  So of course that’s where I turned. Continue reading →

This blog originally posted at http://mariancall.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/twelve-simple-steps-to-indie-cred-excerpt/

I’ve been taking a month or so at home to reflect, focus, and work on my Indie Cred.  I understand that Indie Cred, or “Independent Credibility,” is very important — I learned that from Jennifer Lopez, who writes so compellingly about still being from the block.  It is important to demonstrate to fans and colleagues that you have suffered an appropriate amount to deserve your carefree, indulgent, jet-setting independent musician lifestyle.  Continue reading →