No one knows who smuggled Symphony No. 7 out of Russia. But in an inspired flourish Dmitri Shostakovitch wrote it, start to finish, as the Nazis invaded Leningrad. The siege lasted almost 900 days and wiped out some 600,000 residents – almost a third of the pre-war population. Shostakovitch’s composition runs almost 80 minutes long …
I’m not saying that Chris Janson is the Brett Kavanaugh of country music. But non-consensual sex is NOT a rite of passage. It is not an inevitable mistake boys can’t help but make as they come of age. Non-consual sex is a crime whether you remember committing it or not, whether the victim was drunk …
The latest round of navel-gazing on Facebook while feigning humble reluctance is the Top 10 Most Influential Albums – post a different album every day for ten days and wax nostalgic about how this music takes you back to wherever you were at that point in your life – physically and emotionally. Reminisce. Take us …
Some very erudite critiques of Nickelback make my trash-talking look like sophistry. And it basically is. Because Nickelback is the ick-factor incarnate for me. It stems from a simple distaste for anyone acting like something they’re not. It’s a disdain for dishonesty. Music journalist and critic Shaunacy Ferro quotes the Scandinavian scholars who studied the anti-Nickelback …
I read the most astonishing grouping of words yesterday: “ … another Nickelback scholar …” Not only is there such a thing, there is apparently more than one. What world are we living in? A fascinating article titled A Scientific Explanation for Why Everybody Hates Nickelback referenced a staggering number of other research articles, predominantly Scandinavian, …
What I love most about Pandora is discovering new artists that never would have likely orbited my realm otherwise. But I also love discovering new-to-me songs by known artists. Like Justin Timberlake. (And yes, I do have Spotify. No, I don’t use it.) One of my great joys in life is singing in the car. …