The blues is everywhere in American music. It is the aesthetic foundation of all American music. The blues, like water, is formless, because the blues was called upon in the invocations of the enslaved. The blues could not take a particular shape as it had to navigate a cruel and brutal institution and give voice…Read more BLAK & BLU: Gary Clark Jr. Forges a New Kind of Blues
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MISTER JONES & EVERYTHING AFTER: The Suite Sounds of Counting Crows
What does it mean to give yourself over to a thing that does not care whether you quit or persist, a thing indifferent to your failings or triumphs? Known under many descriptors—painting, dance, music, stand-up comedy, theatre—this thing, art, can appear in moments of creative expression, moments we’ve all surely experienced, even if only as…Read more MISTER JONES & EVERYTHING AFTER: The Suite Sounds of Counting Crows
PANIC SWITCH: SilverSun Pickups Keep On Picking Up
“We made a conscious effort to rein in the electronic stuff a little bit, and have more pianos and organs,” says keyboardist Joe Lester about the latest album as a member of the band, Silversun Pickups. “There’s still synthy stuff on there for sure. But we have strings again, which we hadn’t done for a couple of…Read more PANIC SWITCH: SilverSun Pickups Keep On Picking Up
The Lazy Sway 