Much of the popular music that I listen to is art. It may show a perspective often foreign to me: abuse, a yearning to seduce a girlfriend, romantic jealousy, or some sort of conflict. Most art and literature has conflict and thus it is easy to see how popular art has conflict. Recently, I’ve began [...]
“The night sky is an infinite viola and the milky way is a bow and the universe is a carousel of flowing manes and fiery eyes”
The above is from this delightful and mentally delicious nugget commenting on this Christmas season from Over The Rhine. Over the Rhine is a wonderful wife and husband band that [...]
As most of you all know, I tend to prefer extremes in taste. After a fling with orthodox liturgy, Old-Slavic hymns, and requiems, I threw myself into pop music from the last twenty years. I became excited at listening to songs from a decade ago. These are songs that I did not hear often, since [...]