Blake Maddux
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.
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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.
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“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.”
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“‘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.”
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American Radicals is as revealing, riveting, and well-researched as any work of history that I have read in recent years.
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“Politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy.”
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Music Commentary: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest versus French Quarter Fest