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Deanna Costa

Short Fuse Podcast #34: An Interview with Music Writer Steve Provizer

Host Deanna Costa interviews Fuse contributor Steve Provizer about his latest pieces for the magazine.

By: Deanna Costa Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: Deanna Costa, Steve Provizer

Short Fuse Podcast #33: Critics Gathering — Bill Marx, Matt Hanson, and The 2020 Virtual Fusical

These are trying times for nonprofit publications like ours and for the arts — our publication plays a crucial role in maintaining the cultural ecosystem.

By: Deanna Costa Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: Bill-Marx, Matt Hanson, The Fusical, winter appeal

Short Fuse Podcast #31 — The Show Must Go On(line)

This episode is all about creativity and curiosity in the age of Covid. Listen in for a round up of some of the best arts and culture offerings available online.

By: Deanna Costa Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: Deanna Costa, Short Fuse

Music Review: Best New Songs – September, 2020

A selection of new songs that are about keeping sane in a world that seems increasingly out of everyone’s control — in nearly every sense.

By: Deanna Costa Filed Under: Music, Popular Music, Review Tagged: Alicia Keys, Dark Tranquillity, Deanna Costa, Flourishing, Good Job, Once Upon a Dream, Phantom Days, Seth MacFarlane, SZA, Tom Rosenthal, Ty Dolla $ign

Short Fuse Podcast #30 — Matt & Lucas, Abridged

What happens when the illusive Zoom gods don’t cooperate — a rescue mission.

By: Deanna Costa Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: Deanna Costa, Lucas Spiro, Matt Hanson

Short Fuse Podcast #29 — A Birthday Show, Recorded Before 2020 Really Sucked

No matter where our lives were at just nine months ago, most of us are now longing for those pre-pandemic days. Jump into this week’s jukebox of an episode for a trip back in time.

By: Deanna Costa Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: Short Fuse, Short Fuse Podcast

Short Fuse Podcast #28 –The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards with Deanna & Hailee

Be warned! This episode is no standard award show recap.

By: Deanna Costa Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: Deanna Costa, Hailee Edwards, The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards

Short Fuse Podcast #27 — Felicia Angeja Viator on the very Relevant History of Gangsta Rap

Unpacking Felicia Angeja Viator’s work on the history of Gangsta Rap leads to some trenchant observations about American culture — past, present, and under the pandemic.

By: Deanna Costa Filed Under: Featured, Music, Podcast Tagged: Deanna Costa, Felicia Angeja Viator, Gangsta Rap, Hip Hop, To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America

Music Commentary: The Summer of Doja Cat — Never the Same Thing Twice

Doja Cat offers a glaring example of why the music industry’s new (albeit Big Brother-inspired) way of doing digital business is here to stay.

By: Deanna Costa Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini), Deanna Costa, Doja Cat

Music Review: New Releases of November 2019

Five tunes that will make it impossible to have a Blue Christmas.

By: Deanna Costa Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Beck, Cold War Kids, Complainer, Deanna Costa, Earl Sweatshirt, FKA Twigs, Heartless, holy terrain, MTOMB, The Weeknd, Uneventful Days

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