Meet Patrick Walsh, Avery Peterson, and Mike Bangert-Drowns.

Today we’d like to introduce you to Pat Walsh, Avery Peterson, and Mike Bangert-Drowns.

Hi Pat, Avery and Mike, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
It all started in college when the three of us – Pat, Mike, and Avery – discovered we had remarkably similar music tastes. Many nights ended sitting around the big tower speaker, chatting and listening to music one of us had just discovered. Eventually, this spawned a group chat dedicated to music-related content (especially memes) that lasted the entirety of college. Once the pandemic hit, things reached new heights. Our music chat blew up as we spent more and more time looking for new music, rediscovering old music, and finding different methods to preserve our sanity. Put On Some Tunes was the logical next step. Now spread across three cities (Nashville, Boston, and New York City), the three of us write our thoughts on our favorite bands, review concerts, and write about how music influences our daily lives. The natural evolution of three people who have yet to reach the limits of their curiosity and have a compulsive desire to talk about it constantly.

We all face challenges, but looking back, would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
We only kicked off the site in January, so we haven’t hit any major road bumps yet! But we are also learning a whole lot along the way. As three engineers, our forte is not social media. So learning what appeals to Instagram users and how to grow our following organically has been difficult. In the end, this project is for us to connect via music and foster a community that can do the same and expresses their feelings about music however they please.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
As of writing this, we’ve published fifteen articles on our site. These range from emerging artist interviews (Mountain Mansion and Lady Moonbeam so far), concert reviews (Goose and James Blake, to highlight a couple), and in-depth articles about how music has influenced our lives.  The last category is broad, but let’s highlight our “Music That Carries Us” series. In this series, Mike has talked about Kendall Street Company and how returning to this band throughout the pandemic brought him joy, hope, and comfort in an uncertain time. The second piece in the series from Pat highlights Mt. Joy and how their combination of superb musicianship and thoughtful lyrics helped him find footing through the pandemic and in his move to Nashville last summer. Finally, Avery will finish that series soon, but you’ll have to follow along to find out who his artist will be! It gets to the heart of what we’re trying to do at Put on Some Tunes – share how music influences us and makes us feel.

Are there any important lessons you’ve learned that you can share with us?
Have fun! Sometimes we stress about the website and how many followers, clicks, etc., we get due to a certain piece we published. Then, it always revolves back to the fact that it isn’t all about that for us. It’s about the organic expression of how music makes us feel and trying to recapture the feeling of sitting on the couch listening to music together for hours and the conversations that percolated during those times.

Contact Info:

• Website: putonsometunes.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/putonsometunes/

Image Credits
Hayley Greenough created all digital artwork/logos. Photos were taken by Pat, Mike, or Avery. Credit does not need to be given for those.