Nostalgia needs selective memory like yeast needs sugar. The latter feeds the former. And what you get when an artist goes full-bore nostalgic is reductive music, pure affectation with zero context or heart. Thing is, SUSTO’s new Ever Since I […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is an extension of the exploration in our Fall-Winter journal of innovation in the way people make, share, and use music. For more stories on the Innovation theme, check out the Fall-Winter journal here. The Sheriffs are a […]
Blues Traveler was blasting at the gym the other day — just plain blasting. Even over the Jason Isbell in my headphones I could hear an aimless harmonica circling endlessly. For a second I could identify the song (hey — […]
I’m a tad obsessed with Samin Nosrat’s cooking theory book Salt Fat Acid Heat. I consider myself a decent cook, but Nosrat has exploded my understanding of even kitchen basics. Her prose is straightforward and comprehensive, and she regularly gets […]
Grief is a powerful muse. It guided Neil Young’s hand when he penned the haunting rocker “Tonight’s the Night.” It’s core to the continued resonance of the hymn “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” Grief drove rap duo Run the Jewels […]
Poor skiffle. It rarely gets its proper due. It’s always a footnote, inevitably mentioned in terms of the Beatles’ early inspiration. Considering the Beatles’ outsize impact on the music industry, this means that elements of skiffle have accordingly trickled into […]
I have no idea what I think about this record. I’ve been listening to it and listening to it. I listen to it in the car during long drives. I put it on in the background while I’m cooking. I […]
Will Hoge is pissed. He’s pissed that those in power are making no real effort to stop mass shootings. He’s pissed that some of his fellow Southerners remain obsessed with the Confederate flag. He’s pissed that immigrants who cross the […]
I married into a Kentucky family. True, my wife was raised in an old house in rural North Carolina — one of many things we have in common — but her roots are pure Kentucky. We were married in Berea, […]
William Elliott Whitmore loves songs about floods. This Iowa native tells tales of rivers that escape their banks, ruining entire crops and taking houses with them. Going as far back as 2006, on tunes like “Red Buds” and “Lee County […]
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