“There’s beauty, because of the major 9 sounding, but there’s, like, this tension,” Moore explains while playing the immediately recognizable chords of “Christmastime Is Here.”“Something’s maybe missing: it could be peo...
The last original members of three-time GRAMMY-winning group Kool & The Gang discuss stories behind their classic hits, hip-hop samples, and how they kept the creativity going on their new album.
we could raise or gather, how fast we were reproducing, what made us sick, what made us die, how much damage we were doing to the air and water and topsoil on which most life forms depended, how violent and heartless nature can be, and on and on...
“We hooked up a few years back. I was asked to play the New York Irish Rock Review show at City Winery. I was in the house band and Chris was the musical director. The second year I did it, we hung out a little more and I asked him to do a gig with me. From then on, we...
a single from turnstile’s spectacular fourth album glow on and a synopsis of the entire turnstile experience: there’s chunky power chords, a blindingly bright alt-rock hook, drum machines, and a latin funk breakdown, and also it’s about wanting just one moment in the spotlight before you...
Shadows on the Rock was her next book, and resembles it most closely, also being deeply researched historical fiction set in early colonial North America, this time Quebec. It’s another triumph of imagination and sympathy. Natasha Pulley, The Mars House. I haven’t been able to get into ...
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This episode, in particular, struck all kinds of chords of recognition. The colors of our lives are changing… Claire’s voiceover sets the tone for this study in how coincidental and relevant one show can be: Time is marked and measured in different ways. The colors of our lives were ...
That was just a magnificent site and I was sad to see it exit the stage over 20 years ago. And who could forget about the days of Riverside Park in Agawam just east of Berkshire County? There were so many unique attractions back in the day that we'll probably never see them again,...
In order to keep moist levels down and fight the smell of mildew and mold (which in Dutch would be described as ‘muf’) burnt fires and people threw resins and spices in the fireplace, rendering the air sweet and pleasant. The outdoor smells of horses, the canal (which was used as ...