February 2012
55 posts
Blood Orange Daytrotter Session is So Beautiful →
I find that I often prefer my favorite musicians’ Daytrotter sessions to their studio recordings. This Blood Orange session is so beautiful. I saw Dev perform a solo piano set a while ago and it was one of my favorite shows ever.
How NOT to Write about Female Musicians →
Maura Johnson’s article about the shocking stupidity and sexism everpresent in the way critics write about female musicians should be obvious. It infuriates me that the world is blind and misguided enough to actually need this explained. I don’t even find this article particularly well-written or insightful and yet I’m forwarding it here! That’s how bad this situation has...
Need a good cry?
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for the love of it, then you do it...
– Moliere
Cab Calloway is the coolest ever.
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934