Twenty years of year-end mixes!
Celebrating 20 years of year-end mixes, I’m excited to share my 2024 playlist with you!
New music from The Felus Cremins Band
Autumnal greetings, friends! I guess I’m reverse trick-or-treating you a little bit today, knocking on your door and offering you something sweet. Brian and...
Third Season Podcast Finale!
Hi, friends: It’s true—my podcast I’ll Follow You just completed its third season! Click the image below to listen to my short season-finale episode: So I...
Some audio trinkets for your Christmas listening
Links to my Best of 2023 mix and my final podcast episode of the year.
New "I'll Follow You" podcast episodes are out now!
Hi, friends: I know it's been a very long time since I've sent out any communication via this newsletter. (Mostly because--well, who needs more clutter in...
Happy Valentine's Day Songs for You!
Happy Valentine's Day, lovebirds! Brian and I just released a new single for your ears: "Put Some Love on It" backed with "Vampire in the Bathtub." Click...
New music for 2022 from Brian and Allison
Surprise! Brian and I made you a new album! This is a slight variation on The Felus Cremins Band, with us in our dreampop guise. We're delighted to share...
My Favorite Music of 2021
Happy winter solstice, everyone! As we all settle our brains for a long winter's nap, I'm delighted to offer up my Best of 2021 mix. I've pulled together 16...
The podcast is back!
Hello, dear friends: GUESS WHO'S BACK, BABY! That's right, Felus is podcastin' again. I've been gearing up to come out of my temporary hiatus for a while...
My Favorite Music of 2020
Like pretty much everything else in 2020, the pandemic has changed my music-listening habits. In what used to pass for regular daily life, music was a...
The Felus Cremins Band Live Home Studio Performance
Hello, friends: Happy Labor Day weekend! When The Felus Cremins Band released our new album American Romantic Music back in early February, we assumed we...
Taking a long overdue moment to unequivocally say BLACK LIVES MATTER
(You can also listen to me read this essay on Anchor or pretty much anywhere else you source your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, and...
A good day to check out the new Felus Cremins Band album & other minor updates
Hello, dear friends! To quote this extremely accurate tweet: in these times, I’m wishing that Providence may spare you and yours, and keep you in good health...
Now available: The new Felus Cremins Band album
Hello, friends! As I promised the last time I wrote to you, the new Felus Cremins Band album, American Romantic Music, is now available for your listening...
Sharing projects from late December and looking forward to 2020
Happy New Year, friends! I’d meant to be in touch with you before the end of December, but then so many late-breaking creative projects kept popping up and I...
The Debut of The Felus Digest
Friends: When I took a break from blogging on Queen of Peaches in June of last year, I thought it was just going to be for the rest of the summer. Whoops!...
Our West Coast Musical Debut!
Happy New Year, friends! The big news that I'm e-mailing you about specifically: Brian and I just made our West Coast musical debut at the Sherry Theater in...
June updates & summer hiatus
Friends, Click here to read this month's blog post, which is the narration of a silly story about the image of Josh Groban I used to have set as the desktop...
May updates
Friends, Click here to read this month's blog post, a handful of ruminations on the road trip that Brian and I just took from Chicago to New Hampshire and...
April Updates
Friends, Click here to read my April blog post, where I finally write out the story of the time my old Chevy Lumina broke down on Lake Shore Drive on a...
Artful Resurrection (Mixed Media)
Friends, I was distraught back in January when I heard that the Town Theatre in Highland, Indiana, was finally going to be knocked down. It had sat dormant...
Heating Things Up in February
Friends, As a staff member at the Portland Psychic School (online only, y'all; I haven't relocated), I recently assisted with a five-week class all about...
Course Correcting for 2018
Hi, friends! I'm gonna try something new this year--keeping things short and sweet! Of course you know I'll go on at length if something comes up that I'm...
Happy Holidays! Looking Back at 2017
Happy (Almost) New Year, Friends! This officially makes two years that I've been coming into your inbox on a monthly basis to give you the scoop on what I've...
TV Makes Me Sad (& So Did the Liam Gallagher Show)
Hello, friends! Remember how I mentioned last month how excited I was about going to see Liam Gallagher in concert? I was THIS excited: Which is to say, I...
The All '90s Edition
Hello, friends! Welcome to the fall! It's been deliciously chilly in Chicago the past week or more, and I couldn't be happier about it. We brought all our...
The September of Lost Words
Hi! Happy fall! How are you surviving our political hellscape? This whole year has been rough, I know, but my god, how especially rough have these past few...
Cookie Fail, Micro-Specific Reggae Preferences, and Oh Yeah, a Trip to Italy
Happy (early) Labor Day weekend, friends! Can you believe the summer is waning so quickly? Although I don't think I'm a particularly good cook, I do enjoy...
Summer Music--Qodèxx, Frank Ocean's Blonde, and the Cordovox
I hope you've all been having a beautiful summer, friends! When I sent out last July's newsletter, which contained a link to a mix of music that I'd put...
The Psychic Energy of Musical Silence and the Soundtrack to a Wordless Comic
My friends! I hope you had a very happy June. [And, I'm sorry if you end up receiving this message twice. I was having some tech trouble getting it out on...
RIP Denis Johnson and Other Grief Thoughts
Greetings, friends! I guess since this newsletter has become a space for me to talk about personally meaningful artists and other cultural figures who have...
Cacti, The Divine Comedy, An Upcoming Concert, and More
Friends! Hello! We found ourselves in Connecticut at the beginning of the month, for Brian to give a talk about his book at the Waterbury campus of the...
March is Time to Change Colors and Bloom
Happy March, friends! Ooh, as soon as we hit that spring solstice, I definitely felt a shift in my perspective. A spring-inspired spring in my step usually...
February the Interminable
Hello, friends! I always assumed that February tends to feel interminable because of the combination of the cold weather and my childlike anticipation of my...
January 2017: Finding Good Luck in the City and More
Dear friends, it feels so nice to reach out and be in touch with you right now. Just to be frank about it, I'm not the most politically savvy person in the...
Happy New Year! Looking Back at 2016
Happy holidays, friends! This officially makes a year that I've been coming into your inbox on a monthly basis to give you the scoop on what I've been...
November Updates: Jimi Hendrix's Birthday, Choir Concerts, and More
So, I guess the question on everyone's minds right now is "how are you surviving this November"? As if the immediate aftermath of the election wasn't hard...
October Treats!
October greetings, friends! Of course the big news in Chicago right now is the World Series. Brian and I lived about a mile away from Wrigley Field for a...
Remembering Curtis Hanson & My Best Friend's Mother
It's autumn! Hurrah! Yes, I am supremely basic (as the children would say) in my love of fall. Hot coffee and light sweaters, crisp evenings and sunny days,...
Easing Out of August with the Addition of Some New Audio
I hope you're not mourning the end of the summer just yet, friends! I know that Labor Day is less than a week away, but thus only ends our traditional...
Sweating Through July with New Music & Cupcakes
July, July! Are you all feeling pretty much burnt to a crisp by now, friends? I'm right there with you. When my dad had a major stroke in the summer of 2004,...
A little treatise on PM Dawn and other June beauty
Happy belated Pride to my dear LBGTQ friends! I hope everyone's June has been beautiful in countless ways. Unlike David Bowie and Prince, whom I wrote about...
Mother May I?
Every year I tend to start to getting inexplicably itchy, emotionally, toward the end of May. I start to feel listless and out of sorts, rudderless and...
April Showers Bring Prince Memorials, Steely Dan, White Denim, & Cold-Brewed Coffee
Well, yes, I guess sometimes it snows in April. Who would have thought that we'd see the loss of both Bowie and Prince before the first six months of 2016...
Marching Forth
Friends, I hope March has been as beautiful for you wherever you live as it's been for me in Chicago. Spring is springing early here, and I'm finding it so...
Kicking Off 2016 with Allison Felus
Welcome to my newsletter! Hiya! And happy new year! I thought it might be a little easier and more streamlined to keep you up to date with my blog postings...
RIP Bowie, The Scoop on My Year-End Mix, & A Video Series Launch
How's your January been, friends? Like everyone else with a brain and a heart and ears, I've been mourning the death of David Bowie. I don't have much by way...
Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out, February
Friends, we've made it to the end of February. Are you feeling the joy as well? I'm always grateful that I have a birthday to celebrate mid-month, or else I...
My Pointless E-mail Rebellion
Friends, if you've known me for any length of time, you know that I sometimes can get contrary just for the sake of being contrary. Well, setting up an...