2020 was THE Covid year. We’re not out of it yet, but we are on the other side of something. A cultural transformation? A shift? Certainly I’m beginning to feel optimistic. Just under a year ago, the pandemic hit and that put an end to live performance. Venues were shut down and for awhile concerts … Continue reading 2020, My Year in Listening
Automatic for the People was never my favorite R.E.M. album. Later, the inescapable ubiquity of “Man on the Moon,” and “Everybody Hurts” on radio tarnished the thing for me. Between the movie tie-in and the overly joyful “Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight,” it began to feel trite and commercially exposed. At least in comparison to the music I was … Continue reading Etude (Record Review): R.E.M., Automatic for the People
(A LP happens to be 1 square foot, which makes record reviews almost obligatory for this blog). Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘chapter’ of the 1989 anthology film New York Stories is about the relationship between a daughter, Zoë, and a father, who is a famous flautist. The only piece of it that’s stuck with me for all of … Continue reading Etude (Record Review): Hamza el Din, Escalay
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