Category: Music

Reflecting on Leaving Meaning

A review of the most recent Swans album.

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Lover of Mine

“I always loved her. I just didn’t always think highly enough of myself to justify this love.”

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Pete Recommends: A Critical Reappraisal of Stairway to Heaven

“But both in spite and because of this ubiquity, “Stairway to Heaven” gets a little slept on, relegated to the status of “rock classic” and thought of as a song more to be heard than to be enjoyed.”

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Nass Recommends: (Sandy) Alex G’s House of Sugar

“House of Sugar takes us to these places, into the real labyrinths of drug addiction, the landscapes and dreamscapes where the whole thing actually goes down.”

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Listening for Change

Reflections on environmental protest songs.

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Moments of Dreams: Dawes in Six Albums and Seven Stories

“In my moments of dogged hope, I would play “Moon in the Water,” an acoustic ballad where Goldsmith proclaims that ‘Love is for the fighter / Born to lose but never quit / Swinging for the moon in the water.’”

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In Concert

Two music venues, one philosophizer.

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The Nass Recommends!

A ream of recommendations from the Nass’ mind to yours.

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Life After Life on Spotify

“No one thinks of Spotify as a means to immortality. But so long as the platform exists, a sort of permanence is granted. Our long finished playlists will become fuel for Discover Weekly long after we’re gone. We become eternal tastemakers, unconsciously curating mixtapes for future listeners.”

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BROTHER ALI’S CURE FOR MODERNITY

An underground Muslim rapper diagnoses our sickness and offers some remedy.

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Man and Machine

An interview with Ian Chang, on connecting the computer to the organic body in performing and composing music

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Raise the Lid

“I was playing loud jazz in J Street.”

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