Why you should give the gift that keeps on spinning.
Unhidden Gems: Amanda Shires’ Catalog
The top five songs to know.
Review: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, ‘Georgia Blue’ — the album that Biden built.
Isbell and the 400 Unit raise the bar for themselves, and attempt to make an R.E.M. stomper work next to a Gladys Knight hit.
Not-wild Ideas: The Reverse Playlist, and the Do-Not-Watchlist
Let me do the unthinkable and turn something off with no intention of thinking about it ever again.
An open letter to the “That’s not real music” people.
With everything ‘tracked’ separately, and often multiple times, you afford yourself uninhibited creativity as a composer behind the boards.
Not-wild Idea, Woodstock: Assault is 100% the fault of the assailant.
A new HBO Max documentary spotlights the insidious nature of one of our most elementary thoughts — and the conjunction that inspired it.
Frank Ocean, giving credit where credit’s due: “the Melody Allusion”
Frank lifts an occasional melody as if by flutter.
The story of Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation 1814’ — the greatest feat in pop music history.
This March, the Library of Congress announced it was adding the album its registry — an overdue honor.
Song Unions: Kelis, “Acapella;” Robyn & Röyksopp “Monument”
The songs explode with kaleidoscopic debris.
Song Unions: Eight Degrees of Space, from Lil Uzi Vert to The Police.
We go on a deep-space adventure and find our way around the universe and back to Earth on the other side. Warped, we ride.
