Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and this month’s list includes Leonard Bernstein, Leon Russell, The Faces, Carla Bley, and Rod Stewart.
Blake Maddux
Music Interview: Juliana Hatfield Talks About “Blood”
In her new album, Juliana Hatfield’s concerns are comeuppance, self-abasement, and the depravity of those who revel in the power to make decisions that can adversely affect others.
Music Interview: Rickie Lee Jones on her Memoir and Living in the Present Tense
“Then, as now, my focus was on the songs. As long as you can keep your focus on the art that you’re doing, the larger thing it can serve – selling records or whatever – that’ll happen on its own.”
Author Interview: Talking to Jamal Greene about How Our Demand for Rights Went So Wrong
“‘Rightsism’ gives judges much more power than they deserve in a democracy,” Jamal Greene writes. “When U.S. judges face a conflict of rights, they cancel one right or the other.”
Book Review: “American Radicals” — Unrecognized Champions of 19th-Century Protest
American Radicals is as revealing, riveting, and well-researched as any work of history that I have read in recent years.
Book Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War”
“Politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy.”
Coming Attractions: February 23 Through March 10– What Will Light Your Fire
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Coming Attractions: February 9 Through 25 — What Will Light Your Fire
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Author Interview: Jared Ross Hardesty on “Slavery in New England” — More Pervasive Than You Thought
“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”
Coming Attractions: January 26 through February 11– What Will Light Your Fire
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.