Midnight Oil’s Time Has Come Again
Midnight Oil taught me that citizens not only need a soundtrack for resistance, but we also need to resist.
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Jon Brion’s Meaningless: An Appreciation
Jon Brion is well known as a successful composer of film scores, but his 2001 self-released album, Meaningless, a lost power-pop classic, should be better known.
We’re Not Groupies, We’re Band Aids: How the Fans Loved and Destroyed One Direction
The millions of young women in One Direction’s fan base made the band – and made sure that they would never be artists in their own right.
The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’: Oh, That Magic Feeling
The Beatles’ Abbey Road still fills me with the sense of wonder and fascination it did when listening to it over and over on my dad’s turntable.
Beware Soaring Yarmulkes! Jon Madof and Zion8 Are Making World Music for a New World
With Zion80, Jon Madof is not making a departure so much as a logical, if inspired, continuation of the ground he’s covered the past decade.