Today I want to talk about the album Never Enough from the band Turnstile. Over the past few days and weeks, I’ve completely fallen in ❤️ with this record. It feels like the best of new music, but it also pulls me back to the old days — like stepping into the late ’90s, drifting into the 2000s.

This music is dreamy — it makes you feel like you’re floating — but it’s also hard, raw, and unapologetically rock and roll. Every track hits with emotion: hopeful, sorrowful, angry, confused, beautiful, and sharp-edged. It makes you want to stand up and feel something.

Back to the ’90s

This is the first record that has made me feel this way in a long, long time — not since the ’90s. It took me back to my days in the music industry, when I traveled to radio stations and record stores, talking about why people should pick up music and how powerful it could be. Back then, I worked in the marketing departments of independent labels, and at the turn of the millennium, I even made an effort to start my own.

That label was called Rotten to the Core Records. My mission was to spotlight bands that played real music, with real instruments — artists who weren’t given a shot in the mainstream. I ran the label out of my house in western Massachusetts, traveling often to New York, and my home became a safe space for the so-called “weirdos” and outcasts.

At Michael’s house, my house, Orbit Deen’s house — music was always blasting. And in that music, people found belonging.

Falling in ❤️ with Music Again

Listening to Never Enough brought me right back to those days. Back when you could put on a record and just fall in love.

Music is supposed to be visceral. Within the first two seconds, you should feel something — an immediate emotional response. Somewhere along the way, the industry lost that spark. So much of what we hear today feels overly packaged, overproduced, bland, and mediocre.

But this record — this band — made me fall in love with music all over again. It’s beautiful. It’s raw. It moves me so deeply it even makes me cry, because it reminds me why I loved music in the first place.

Thank You, Turnstile

So thank you, Turnstile, for this record. Never Enough is more than enough. You reminded me what music can do — and why it still matters.

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