Kate Bush is the haunt of a stained glass temple after hours, a melodious cathedral. Her music is its own sort of church — hymnal in its movement. She is not the subdued female artist nor does she have the synthetic vulgarity that permeates much of the music scene. Her …
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Pretty Graves
A girl checks her reflection in the tinted glass of an ambulance This is a magazine Six-inch heels grinding across a board of rusty nails This is a magazine The flatlands in skin This is a magazine Palm trees in short skirts This is a magazine Mine lights in gaunt …
Read More »Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Previously Unreleased Interviews with The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. WNYC History Notes
Read More »Dead or Alive? Is good music becoming extinct?
As 1:17 a.m. rolled in, I still had nothing written on paper. My plan was a sweeping clever critique of pop culture as we know it in 2012; to ask the question in this new millennium–can rock n ‘roll survive? I’d start with the recent atrocity called the American Music Awards, …
Read More »Django Unchained: “The hero can’t dead till the last reel!”
The first time I saw “The Harder They Come,” I was mesmerized. I was barely thirteen and living in Barbados in the late 1970’s. My friend Ian and I snuck into a movie theater. There he was — Jimmy Cliff. He looked like the rebels we looked up to around our way, …
Read More »Rock ‘n’ Roller Raquel Barrientos talks music, art, inspiration and the unwavering spirit in all of us
Growing up I had two barbies. One of my Barbie’s head snapped off because I played with her hair too much. My family was poor. My mother, like her father before her, came from tough, French-Canadian stock. My mom put my Barbie’s head back on with a casing nail. I …
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