Robert Loss

Features

Who Are You: Tom Waits and ‘Lowside of the Road’ by Barney Hoskyns

By Robert Loss

Waits is a deconstructionist vaudevillian with a heart who rails against cynicism; a furious bluesman blaring unabashedly about the soul-- his words and music stretch into a bizarre land, where the light is slanted, eerie. [2 September 2009]

The Death of the Second Folk Revival

By Robert Loss

If the Second Folk Revival put the power of recording into the hands of the artists, what’s been happening these past five years or so has put that power into the hands of everyone: cell phones that record video, ProTools and Cakewalk, Movie Maker and MySpace. [18 May 2009]

Reviews

Writing in the Dark, by David Grossman

By Robert Loss

Most aspects of culture, Grossman argues, teach us to resist our innate urge to identify with the Other, but writing fulfills our wonder. [25 November 2009]