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What happened to the music festival? What was once a pastoral escape has now become a bloated corporate opportunity for profit, more commonly marketed towards wealthy high schoolers than engaged music fans. For us music die-hards who still attend festivals, every year becomes more of a struggle to find meaning and defend our decisions… This […]
shorts, and starts without ends
We stand in the rain on the front porch, with cars splash-passing in the dark road. My neighbor, Anthony, drinking a hard cider, doesn’t blink when I ask if he’d be willing to share the poem he’s reading with all of you folks at home. Then we play music; he, the woman he loves, and […]
feast your ear tongues on these music pops
Welcome to Some Songs Considered, a music column that recognizes they can’t all be zingers and truly appreciates the ones that are. *** Each week, I invite some hot name from the world of music to talk the coolest tunes. Today, Corinne Osnos joins Bryce and I to chat about genre-benders, sisterly acts, and killer […]
may you stay strong
Every Tuesday-Friday, The Morning Commute gives you “A rousing digest of the day’s biggest news, set to a soundtrack worth waking up for.” Every Sunday, we compile the week that was in a series we call The Weak Ender. *** Since last Friday’s edition of The Morning Commute: Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old former investment banker, […]
songs for showers
At the end of each month, our daily newsletter The Morning Commute purges its Spotify rolls like they’re full of ID-less voters in order to start the latest lunar cycle anew. However, to honor those truly exemplary songs that helped us get through the month that was, we like to single out the dozen or […]
