By the age of six, I could circumscribe my world in song. I was not particularly precocious. My world was just small. Ultimately, it would…
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By the age of six, I could circumscribe my world in song. I was not particularly precocious. My world was just small. Ultimately, it would…
Continue reading Sonorous Dissonance
Comments closedArt is urgency: It pierces our awareness in a flash of brilliance, pulling us into an experience bigger than our selves, provoking a response. It…
Continue reading Album Review: Dream The Electric Sleep – “Beneath the Dark Wide Sky”
Comments closedThe door swings open as we pass the cafĂ©. The A/C is turned up all the way, and we are embraced by a coolly seductive…
Continue reading Hi-Fi Infidelity: Me and Mrs. Jones
Comments closedTwo electric guitars recite a harmoniously staggered theme, shadowing a couple up a flight of stairs. They pause on every third step, perhaps restating their…
Continue reading Hi-Fi Infidelity: In Some Room Above the Street
Comments closedMy brother and I sat on the front stoop, with impressively out-of-tune plastic guitars in our hands. With sibling harmony decades removed from the Louvins,…
Continue reading Hi-Fi Infidelity: Your Cheatin’ Heart
Comments closedThe small moments in our lives are often filled with the most portent. We all know these moments, too. When we find our hand on…
Continue reading Album Review: Chin’s Mojo – “Man O’War”
Comments closedLast night, in a concrete pop-up dive with a Christmas ornament for a mirrored ball, I witnessed all that is good about rock and roll.…
Continue reading Stay at home, Dad. Just don’t rehearse too much.
Comments closedThe space at Gig is simple, unadorned save for a dozen guitars that hang just inside the door, filling a small wall. The guitars tell…
Continue reading Gig, Sante Fe, 12/31/08
Comments closedWithout melody. The sound of one key tapping: Desire’s fulfillment. 07 August 2008
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