Interview
Anything Could Happen is a 12-song collection that is as good as anything that a fan could have hoped for from Tommy Stinson.
“There should never have been the cult of the rock star. That just shouldn’t have happened.”
Reading the essays in this collection is like receiving a first-rate tutorial on the way we live now and how we got here.
Surprise! The New England roots of reggae’s sibling act Morgan Heritage.
Maybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Sōseki moment in the English-speaking world.
FilmStruck’s streaming service isn’t just an archive, it’s also an opportunity to reframe and refresh.
“Playing these standard pieces on period instruments is a little bit like reading a novel or poem in its original language.”
“Being an independent musician is kind of like having an organic farm.”
Brand X was essentially a bunch of top-flight session men who got together to blow off steam, a UK version of Weather Report.
“Surely the passion for the plain, the homespun, the banal is itself a form of betrayal, a refusal to look honestly at a complex universe.”
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