July, 1967: I am twenty-four years old; my brother is twenty-six. My wife and I are spending a week in California, a break in the intensity of my last year…
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I’ve come to sit within the ruins of a white light I knew I met my lover here over a candle of time a moon Neither feeling nor reason…
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Derek Piotr’s most personal statement yet, “Making and Then Unmaking” at first glance appears to be a radical departure for the young composer, yet upon closer inspection, proves to be…
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INSiGHT speaks truth to power on the intense trip of “Trust”. By far the true show-stopper of the entire album comes from their thoughtful, poignant lyrics. They draw from a…
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Jeff Fresh delivers a tropical take on hip-hop with the inspirational storytelling of “Shadow Black”. Aspirational and full of hope, the songs have a great deal of life that flows…
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drawing by Debra Galant * two poems by Heather Newman * SING-ALONG I’m invited to drink and sing around the piano. I’m that standby you call when you need a…
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This’s a woman in red Melancholic like a lamp Waiting on the rain to end For a lover’s left hand Like a wheel without hind Like a camera made…
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The author’s senior photo The first thing you need to know about Danny is that Danny wasn’t punk. I mean, Danny wanted to be punk. Danny wanted to be…
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Sometimes he wakes up screaming in the middle of the night. Not particularly hungry, sometimes not even wet or poopy. I can identify the times when there is nothing obviously…
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Echo Strike delivers a decadent, funky piece of psychedelic pop with the lush “Dirty Clean Sexy Mean”. The sheer physicality of the sound has a soothing inviting presence to it.…
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Mimi Novic & Edmond Fokker transcend the concept of time and place with “Seven Prayers of Love”. A mixture of composers is drawn from with the help of Edmond Fokker’s…
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We are flow We can’t breathe forever Walking on water In substance Bold as atonement Exchanging the seeds of our mirror Inside and outside Without listening, or loving…
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Noboot delivers fantastic, thick, low-slung electro funk on the dreamy scope of “Consciousness”. Aptly named, there is a living, breathing quality to the whole of the album. Stylistically rooted in…
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An intensely strange hybrid Warganization drags the listener into their own peculiar universe on “Inauguration”. Experimental, techno, trap, noise, downtempo, jazz, and a whole slew of other approaches merge to…