Bits & Peaces — Music

For the biggest band in the world, it's about family.

Music from my time at Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq

This October, EarPeace is celebrating National Protect Your Hearing Month. It's a time to raise awareness about noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) and how to protect yourself from it. NIHL is an irreversible, progressive hearing disorder that affects your ability to hear and is a result of prolonged exposure to loud noises. For instance, if you work in an environment that has loud noises like machinery or music for long periods of time and aren't wearing ear protection, your ears are at risk! That's why we want to make sure everyone knows how they can protect themselves and their loved ones...

It doesn’t matter how shitty or amazing the first music festival you ever attended was, it lives long after the dust and the heat and the reverberation of the bass speakers fade. Maybe it’s because those first experiences are wrapped in freedom and connection and the joyous flood of the senses where everything is hot, dusty, (or worse, rainy) and unbearable except for the fact that you are there with your friends, known and unknown, and the whole world is alive with the sound of your collective heartbeat. A lot of us were young in those first experiences, so of...