Feature: Best Songs of 2020 (Excerpt) December 29, 2020 14. The Chicks: “Gaslighter” [Sony Music] Election years breed proselytizing – and, yes, a fair bit of preaching to the choir. And 2020, in… Continue Reading
Review: Kronos Quartet – “Long Time Passing” October 13, 2020 Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger might seem, on the surface of things, like a noble attempt to celebrate or further… Continue Reading
Review: Eric Bachmann – “Misinformation Age” October 9, 2019 Only Eric Bachmann could make rage over the Trump era’s alienating 24-hour-a-day mind-fuck seem elegiac. His new, one-off single, “Misinformation Age,” out yesterday via… Continue Reading
Review: Demons – “Uglier Americans” July 30, 2019 As protest songs go, this one, yep, is pretty damn angry. “Uglier Americans” – the new MAGA-targeting protest song, out today online, from Virginia… Continue Reading
Profile: Marc Ribot (2018) September 14, 2018 The separation of immigrant children from their parents. The trashing of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The white nationalism. The Mueller investigation. The… Continue Reading
