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The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s: 100-81

October 28, 2020Sean Furtado

100. Nickel Creek – Why Should the Fire Die? [Sugar Hill] Why Should the Fire Die? is both the title of Nickel Creek’s best 2000’s record and very likely the question many fans asked themselves when, following the release of the album,… Read More

Jazz Composer Maria Schneider Takes on the "Data Lords" in Song

October 28, 2020Judy Moreno

Schneider, the Composer Schneider’s status as a highly acclaimed jazz composer has few true parallels in creative music. Unlike the huge majority of jazz composers—Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Wayne Shorter, say—her acclaim wasn’t preceded or accompanied by her success… Read More

'Wildflowers & All the Rest' Is Tom Petty's Masterpiece

October 28, 2020Karma Oak

Sometime between the home recording of “Crawling Back to You” on Wildflowers & All the Rest and the version that ended up on Wildflowers itself, Tom Petty figures it out. There’s a lyric deep in the song about the kind… Read More

Horrors in the Closet: A Closet Full of Monsters

October 28, 2020Gaia Writer

If anything, horror is about transgressing boundaries and norms. If you think about it, monsters are creatures that challenge biological, physical, social, and even moral rules. And truth be told, it is such an attitude of contravening rules that ultimately… Read More

Artemis Is the Latest Jazz Supergroup

October 28, 2020Manny Sanchez

You can find million-and-one words in the music press about “supergroups”—the thrills and spills that occur when hotshots from different bands get together to create a new group mixing players who are otherwise leaders of acclaim. Not unlike basketball teams… Read More

The Power of Restraint in Sophie Yanow, Paco Roca, and Elisa Macellari's New Graphic Novels

October 27, 2020Judy Moreno

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, and the maxim is even more accurate for graphic novels. This surprised me when I first started reading graphic literature – in a medium that is so heavily iconographic, surely… Read More

15 Overlooked and Underrated Albums of the 1990s

October 27, 2020Gina Alexander

15. Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing [1998] Placebo have never really been taken as a serious band. Probably because of lead singer Brian Molko’s ridiculously nasal delivery and the group’s propensity to sing about the recreational drug use. Underlying Placebo’s… Read More

Mary Halvorson Creates Cacophony to Aestheticize on 'Artlessly Falling'

October 27, 2020Karma Oak

The word “artlessly” has several meanings. It’s usually used as an adverb suggesting something authentic and direct. The implication is that there is no attempt to deceive or exaggerate. In terms of art and literature, the term signifies a work… Read More

The Pogues' 'The BBC Sessions 1984-1986' Honors Working-Class Heroes

October 27, 2020Lis Sinatra

Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, frustrated that there was no antonym for the word “catastrophe”, invented the term “eucatastrophe”, something that would describe an explosion of good. Still, I think there is another term: The Pogues. The late… Read More

'The Edge of Democracy' and Parallels of Political Crises

October 27, 2020Judy Moreno

When the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro caught coronavirus in July 2020, it seemed like a matter of time until Donald Trump followed. Sure enough, three months later, the American president had tested positive. Neither took the pandemic seriously, and this… Read More

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