As the leaves turn and the weather shifts from sauna-esque to dry and frosty, I notice my listening habits shift away from the loud and expansive. When the air crisps, I end up listening to a lot of chamber-piecey things, acoustic and downbeat—what my wife calls, tongue and cheek, my “orphan music.” Here are 12 songs to help you sip your pumpkin spice latte.
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I say this as somebody who just had his first book published this year and who still loves books even as I recognize their shrinking relavance to people’s lives: The Nobel Prize does not owe anything to book sales or the book industry. The book industry owes it to itself to figure out the problem of diminished readership and its own existential relavance.
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When you name your album after a quirky lumberjack instrument, it had better appear, and fast. Kevin Morby’s vibrant new album (his third), Singing Saw, begins with the trilling appearance of a singing saw. Nobody wants to be a singing-saw tease; show the saw, use the saw.
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It’s the dog days of summer—time to address the issue that has been dogging music for the past few...
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It’s the Fourth of July weekend as I write this month’s column; time to relish in the good...
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