Courtney Barnett — Things Take Time, Take Time
In the natural order of things, parents can have an outsized influence on their kids’ musical tastes, or at least experiences. But it can flow the other way as well. When my kids were...
Category: ’20s
Tori Amos – Ocean To Ocean
Still playing catch-up: I definitely had a Tori Amos phase, but as with most things, it was after she’d had her moment with the “Little Earthquakes” and “Under the Pink” albums. I was aware...
Dave Alvin — From An Old Guitar
I’ve written before of how I became exposed to The Blasters solely through one of the greatest movies of all time, “Streets of Fire” (contrary opinions shan’t be tolerated). But after finding those initial...
Alligator Records — 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music
We’re doing some catch-up. A lot of catch-up, to be honest. (So much catch-up I’m creating a new category for it so I can go back and alphabetize these things properly later.) Since my...
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