Feast your eyes on this!

Peter Matthews has an insatiable thirst for classical music, great performers, and live guitar. And as he makes his winding journey throughout the musically-inclined NYC, you can follow him along and read all about his rapturous adventures on his blog, Feast of Music.  

By day he's a hard-working digital media professional. By night, he masquerades as a band groupie.  Ok, not exactly.  Peter does, however, spend most nights going to different music shows around NY.   Whether it be Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, or a hole-in-the-wall dive bar, you'll find Peter there satiating his thirst for the best mainstream and underground music of the city.

Jemsite wants to find out!  In a new series, we've set out to find the best reps across the country to will tell us just what it means to make it in the big city music scene.

Music blogger Chris DeLine calls Minneapolis a dysfunctional community, but one with a thriving music scene--whether it's rock, hip-hop, or electro.  He writes all about it on his hit music blog, Culture Bully, which was created nearly four and a half years when music blogs had yet to be as common as a a JEM guitar for an Ibanez fan.

Culture Bully has a plethora of album reviews, concert reviews, music videos, band profiles, and music videos and is currently considered one of the most trafficked blogs in all of the "Twin Cities."

What does it take to make it in the thriving jazz scene in New York or the indie hard rock scene of Seattle? 

Jemsite wants to find out!  In a new series, we've set out to find the best reps across the country to will tell us just what it means to make it in the big city music scene.

We begin with Portland, Oregon and one Angelo De Ieso II, an independent music promoter who has started the collective Pop Tomorrow! and is dedicated to promoting the independent and under the radar musicians of Oregon focusing on Portland. Let's see what he has to say about these Northwest up and comers and their flourishing musical success.