Year of the Month: Adriano Ferreira on TIDAL
Tidal turns 25 this year. I was 16 or 17 when I bought it, after…
Year Of The Month: Miller on ELECTRICLARRYLAND
It took me three and a half years to get from a mall in Western…
Year of the Month: LIVING WITH GHOSTS
1996 was one heck of a year for American roots music. You had Johnny Cash…
The best original song of 1965, according to the Academy (Year of the Month)
Greetings, Soluters and music lovers! What a year this has been. Aside from things happening…
With Help! The Beatles Got Ambitious, With Mixed Results by James Williams
A Hard Day’s Night looms large in the legacy of the Beatles. Usually described as…
Year of the Month: Mr. Apollo on CATCH US IF YOU CAN
Studios were so desperate to cash in on the success of the Beatles’ 1964 movie…
A Minute, A Day, No More: Harold Budd, 1936-2020 (a Conversation by Avathoir and wallflower)
Avathoir: The death of Harold Budd is the death of a truly unique figure in…
“Blues in the Night”: the best songs of 1941, part 2 (YOTM)
My momma done tol’ me, when I was in knee pants, My momma done tol’…
The best songs of 1941, according to the Academy (YOTM, part 1)
Greetings, fellow song-lovers! Last month we had an unexpected bumper crop of hit songs to…
Year of the Month: Persia on The Chattanooga Choo Choo
Before America had car culture, it had the train. Southern states blocked railway expansion until…