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Love Songs: The Hidden History (Excerpt)
What do evolutionary biology and its founding father, Charles Darwin, have to do with love songs? As it turns out, quite a lot. Enjoy this excerpt of Ted Gioia's Love Songs: The Hidden History, courtesy of Oxford University Press.
Ted Gioia
14 Feb 2020
Music
Plugging Into the Third Mind
Alt-rock supergroup the Third Mind launches a musical adventure that brings Alice Coltrane and Roky Erickson together and doesn't forget the guitar solos.
14 Feb 2020
Music
"A Certain Kind of Dream Quality": An Interview with Donovan Quinn
Donovan Quinn's (Skygreen Leopards) first solo album in seven years explores memory, love, and loss in no uncertain psych-folk terms.
14 Feb 2020
Music
29 Black Music Documentaries for Black History Month 2020: #14. Mariah Carey Is Christmas: The Story of "All I Want for Christmas Is You"
There hadn't been a Christmas hit since 1958's "The Chipmunk Song". Then along came Christmas-loving Mariah Carey.
16 Feb 2020
Music
French-Algerian Rocker Rachid Taha Leaves 'Je Suis Africain' As His Final Work
Algerian rock legend Rachid Taha's legacy of innovation lives on in the posthumous release Je Suis Africain.
14 Feb 2020
Music
BeauSoleil's Michael Doucet Steps Out with Lâcher Prise for "Water Water" (premiere)
Cajun music legend and BeauSoleil founder Michael Doucet releases a video for "Water Water", recorded with his new adventurous, roots music quintet, Lâcher Prise.
14 Feb 2020
Music
Parachute For Gordo's New Post-Rock LP Is Driven By Percussion, Not Guitars
Parachute For Gordo's new LP, Best Understood By Children and Animals, diverges from the band's art-punk past. The result is an enthralling, throbbing, and incredibly percussion-driven document.
14 Feb 2020
Music
Euglossine Creates a Gleaming Electronic Vista with 'Psaronius'
Underground electronic artist Euglossine's latest album, Psaronius, contains surprising warmth among the digital flash.
14 Feb 2020
Books
Books
Flip It Over: An Ode to the B-Side
We determine what song is worthy of the "A" or "B" side -- not the music industry. On Will Stockton and D. Gilson's 33 1/3 B-Sides.
13 Feb 2020
Books
Reflections and Refractions: 'Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents'
The contributors to Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents identify nuance; frequently framing themselves and their parents through multiple lenses.
12 Feb 2020
Books
For All Governments: Gendry-Kim's Graphic Novel, 'Grass'
The powerful graphic novel Grass documents the atrocities against WWII "comfort women" through the recollections of a survivor. This is an incredibly powerful and urgent work that, frankly, should be read by the governments of all nations that must face, admit to, and begin real reparations for their country's atrocities.
12 Feb 2020
Books
'Night Theater': Surgery, Corruption, and Chekhov
The well-timed choreography of Vikram Paralkar's Night Theater leads us to interrogate the unfamiliar notes of our personal harmonies.
11 Feb 2020
Film
Film
For Valentine's Day, the End of Anti-Miscegenation Laws: 'The Loving Story'
The Loving Story's tale of this Supreme Court victory lays out both its legal and moral import, and then turns back to Richard and Mildred Loving in intimate, evocative images.
14 Feb 2020
Film
Jerry Hopper's 'Naked Alibi' Draws Comparisons to Douglas Sirk's Films
Although it's fair to state that Jerry Hopper is no Douglas Sirk, it's also true that their careers tangoed around each other, as seen in Hopper's Naked Alibi.
13 Feb 2020
Film
Lurking and Smirking: Anthony Perkins and Charles Bronson Match Wits in 'Someone Behind the Door'
If we judge a film by keeping us on the edge of our seat, 1971's Someone Behind the Door, starring Anthony Perkins and Charles Bronson, is a success.
12 Feb 2020
Film
The Unspeakable and Unshowable: 'The Story of Temple Drake'
If you had seen The Story of Temple Drake in 1933 -- which would have been your last chance to see it for decades -- you would have known that Paramount didn't dare name the notorious novel it was based upon.
11 Feb 2020
Recent
Music
29 Black Music Documentaries for Black History Month 2020: #14. Mariah Carey Is Christmas: The Story of "All I Want for Christmas Is You"
There hadn't been a Christmas hit since 1958's "The Chipmunk Song". Then along came Christmas-loving Mariah Carey.
16 Feb 2020
Music
BeauSoleil's Michael Doucet Steps Out with Lâcher Prise for "Water Water" (premiere)
Cajun music legend and BeauSoleil founder Michael Doucet releases a video for "Water Water", recorded with his new adventurous, roots music quintet, Lâcher Prise.
14 Feb 2020
Music
Plugging Into the Third Mind
Alt-rock supergroup the Third Mind launches a musical adventure that brings Alice Coltrane and Roky Erickson together and doesn't forget the guitar solos.
14 Feb 2020
Film
For Valentine's Day, the End of Anti-Miscegenation Laws: 'The Loving Story'
The Loving Story's tale of this Supreme Court victory lays out both its legal and moral import, and then turns back to Richard and Mildred Loving in intimate, evocative images.
14 Feb 2020
Music
"A Certain Kind of Dream Quality": An Interview with Donovan Quinn
Donovan Quinn's (Skygreen Leopards) first solo album in seven years explores memory, love, and loss in no uncertain psych-folk terms.
14 Feb 2020
Books
Love Songs: The Hidden History (Excerpt)
What do evolutionary biology and its founding father, Charles Darwin, have to do with love songs? As it turns out, quite a lot. Enjoy this excerpt of Ted Gioia's Love Songs: The Hidden History, courtesy of Oxford University Press.
Ted Gioia
14 Feb 2020
Music
French-Algerian Rocker Rachid Taha Leaves 'Je Suis Africain' As His Final Work
Algerian rock legend Rachid Taha's legacy of innovation lives on in the posthumous release Je Suis Africain.
14 Feb 2020
Music
Parachute For Gordo's New Post-Rock LP Is Driven By Percussion, Not Guitars
Parachute For Gordo's new LP, Best Understood By Children and Animals, diverges from the band's art-punk past. The result is an enthralling, throbbing, and incredibly percussion-driven document.
14 Feb 2020
Music
Euglossine Creates a Gleaming Electronic Vista with 'Psaronius'
Underground electronic artist Euglossine's latest album, Psaronius, contains surprising warmth among the digital flash.
14 Feb 2020
Film
Jerry Hopper's 'Naked Alibi' Draws Comparisons to Douglas Sirk's Films
Although it's fair to state that Jerry Hopper is no Douglas Sirk, it's also true that their careers tangoed around each other, as seen in Hopper's Naked Alibi.
13 Feb 2020
Music
Brooding Goth Meets Post-Punk on Bambara's 'Stray'
On Stray, Bambara peel the curtain back further on their reality. Haunting and deeply evocative words are sewn into a dark tapestry of atmospheric, brooding goth meets post-punk on an album that lingers like the rough outline of an aging scar.
13 Feb 2020
Books
Flip It Over: An Ode to the B-Side
We determine what song is worthy of the "A" or "B" side -- not the music industry. On Will Stockton and D. Gilson's 33 1/3 B-Sides.
13 Feb 2020
Music
Jacoti Sommes Gets Spacey and Soulful with the Irresistible 'Travel Time'
Ohio-based producer Jacoti Sommes creates a warm sonic world where trippy vibes coexist with funky jams on his typically strange, lovable new album, Travel Time.
13 Feb 2020
Music
Nada Surf Get Philosophical on 'Never Not Together'
Never Not Together is the best record Nada Surf have made in quite a while, as it sees the indie rock/power pop group stress the need for more empathy in the world.
13 Feb 2020
Culture
Critical Noir: Confessions of a ThugNiggaIntellectual
If you need to know what the boundaries of diction are, listen to my reformed ghetto-ass.
13 Feb 2020
Music
The 10 Best Sappy Love Songs of the 1970s
Just in time for Valentine's Day... If you were a child of the 1970s, you no doubt grew up hearing these tunes on your parents' eight-track player and car radio. The songs on this list are sappy, high-drama love ballads -- and for that they're being celebrated.
13 Feb 2020
Music
Needshes Perfectly Capture Teenage Obsession on "Love"(premiere)
Uzbekistani band Needshes' new single is a playful indie track that quickly locks into a tight, funk groove. Have some "Love" for Valentine's Day.
13 Feb 2020
Music
Unconditional Arms Fuse Post-Punk and Post-Rock on "You're Just As Desperate" (premiere)
Featuring members of Wavves and the American Scene, Oakland's Unconditional Arms deliver an inspired instrumental that bodes well for a bright musical future.
13 Feb 2020
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