THE ’80S NEVER REALLY LEFT!
The 1980s never really left. They just keep finding new ways to come back — sometimes through fashion, sometimes through film, and sometimes through a very large guitar solo....
ON LETTING GO, LOOKING BACK, AND MOVING FORWARD!
The most interesting part of an ending is often not the ending itself, but the person you become afterwards. Brett Ashby’s “Over,” featuring Queenie, explores that quieter aftermath; the...
A PATHWAY FOR NEW STARS!
Two beams of light once rose above the Manhattan skyline where the Twin Towers had stood. From that haunting image came Dr. Judy Kuriansky & Russell Daisey’s “Towers of...
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOU CLAIM THE CROWN?
A crown can mean power. It can mean achievement. It can mean sovereignty. It can also become a very convincing way of hiding the ego. In “The Crown,” The...
BETWEEN MEMORY AND THE STARS..
There is a strange sense of distance running through Reetoxa’s Double A Side 2 (Akaroa / Erica And The Stars), as though these songs are reaching backward into memory...
THE ANATOMY OF A RESTLESS MIND
Somewhere between a dream sequence and an anxious inner monologue sits “Rest” by As We Sleep. Its world is hazy but never entirely peaceful: lawns, breath, old memories, dreams,...