Dana Miller

Atlanta, New York

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Music Journalist at QRO Magazine

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Articles

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

3 weeks ago | qromag.com | Dana Miller

In blues, as in poker, if you don’t know who the sucker is, the sucker is you. Some people dabble in blues on a flotilla of pat self-marketing stemming from a temporary sabulous streak, a slippery sprezzatura that amounts to little more than sonic grocery-store tourism. Some do it to play nursemaid to the algorithm, others because they are insufficiently anguished and bizarrely long to feel the weight of an emotional sinker they will never know how to cast, much less how to hold.
Inhaler 2025 Tour Diary

1 month ago | qromag.com | Dana Miller

When anything unerringly, irrepressibly original is about torocket out of obscurity, set its own unassailable standard, and stake its flagon planetary ground previously deemed too alien by others, the speed of therise and the caliber of the claim is never about how many are listening at anystage, but always about who islistening, chiefly at the beginning. Truly great bands share much withrecord-breaking restaurants.
Slinky Vagabond

2 months ago | qromag.com | Dana Miller

SlinkyVagabond | The Eternal ReturnThecivically brilliant socio-anthropologist Sal Restivo once expertly observed,“If you give me a genius, I’ll give you a social network,” and the appealinglyApollonian art-rock band Slinky Vagabond, helmed by longtime creative confidantes Keanan Dufftyand Fabio Fabbri, has unerringly embodied that maxim via music for nearlytwenty years now.
Keane

Oct 6, 2024 | qromag.com | Dana Miller

More20 Years of Hopes &FearsThe aspirations underpinning art areoften fickle, fame-drunk, full of opportunistic landlordism, and unpleasantlysurprising, like a cobra in a cake box. Hirola-rare are the bands like Keane that chased their golden echo through all the earlylow-tide landings of longform success to reach broadly legible long-termluminosity.
Drowning in Diet Malts with Druig and other poems

Sep 8, 2024 | thepunchmagazine.com | Dana Miller

In the desert,in the midday time,he would meet me at the celestial soda counter on Tuesdays,wearing bovver boots and a leather choker studded with sardonyx— the exosuit of a peregrine. The entire duppy congregation set immediate fire to itself every time. There was myomancy in his murmur,Chekhov’s gun in his cheeks,and an intercepted treaty,waxed and blued and vulcanized,right where you’d think his tiger-in-the-tank ought to be.
Fontaines D.C.

Sep 6, 2024 | qromag.com | Dana Miller

The word ‘Romance,’ particularly where it parades the capital R – which is well and truly the only way to have it – is not just the English language’s most loaded little lick of holophrasis, it is also an automatic high-dosage chest injection of nostalgic Narcan to the neurological circuitry for we creatures of the cerebral carpet bomb, maybe especially those of our number who believe ourselves beneficially living without the unalloyed advantage of a roseprint mindset in daily life.
MonoNeon

Aug 8, 2024 | qromag.com | Dana Miller

Purebred lords of under-thunder have always been like the kings of the Kudzu Ball in rock. They’re hard to find, hell to keep, difficult to explain, and it’s only ever the card-carrying captains of cadence who know the true carat of their worth and meaning to the music.
What to watch for at Paris 2024 Olympics: Reusable cups - Dana Miller

Jul 26, 2024 | qoshe.com | Dana Miller

Aa Aa Aa - A + The 2024 Olympic Games are upon us and like many people around the world, I am excited to tune in and follow the action. Like most, I will cheer for athletes from my home country. Not wanting to miss the moments when new world records are set and stars are made, I will watch the sprinting. As a marine scientist, I have a natural affinity with anything remotely related to the ocean so I will also likely follow all the watersports.
Pansy Division

Jul 20, 2024 | qromag.com | Dana Miller

“No artist desires to prove anything,” Oscar Wilde valiantlyventures in the preface to The Picture ofDorian Gray, for “even things that are true can be proved.” However, what agroup of big-noise-loving gay men who winkingly named their band after asardonic play on the war-making words ‘Panzer division’ postulated in 1991 wasa proof so positive as to require prime and permanent evidential real estate: gay music is all music, and it ain’t allabout dance parties and disco either.
Nation of Language

Jun 20, 2024 | qromag.com | Dana Miller

Slim & Husky’s is where you go for the best build-it-yourself pizza when you want the dopest dough in a Hip-Hopmotsphere to die for, a fact well known throughout the American southeast. Nation of Language is where you go when you want the ear-equivalent to that main-pie mainstay’s mutably great taste palette, a fact becoming more blissfully well-known every time they fire up their sequencers in a new city.