Preoccupied with music, culture, religion, and liberal democracy. Practicing composition in Greater Boston.
Chris Walton ❌👑
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"I don’t have the energy to get exercised about monoculture. I use my modest platform to lift up music I care about, and I am grateful when others do the same. At the end of the day, what matters most to me is nurturing community, which, as I see it, is the only way out of our political hellscape."
Vampire Fortnight
Introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live (Boston me)
Branford Marsalis Trio
Elvin Jones
Sonny Rollins
Elliot Smith (twice)
Gillian Welch (& David Rawlings)
Frigg
Le Vent du Nord (x2)
Pine Tree Flyers
Lawrence Brownlee (x2)
Pretty Yende (x2)
Susanna Phillips (x3)
You know you’re in Utah when you pass not one but two trucks filled with ersatz pioneer handcarts on the freeway onramp
Told the kids about Air Supply and now, for the first time in decades, I'm listening to their hits and realizing the '80s really planted some ear worms. I've apparently discovered my karaoke set. 😳
"By tying artistic seriousness so tightly to the preservation of older sounds, forms, rituals, and cultural assumptions, the tradition has gradually drifted away from the social, emotional, and historical realities through which most people encounter meaning in music in their contemporary lives." 💯
Introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live (college-era me)
Midnight Oil (twice)
Nirvana
Throwing Muses
Morphine
Timbuk 3
R.E.M. (twice)
Indigo Girls
10,000 Maniacs
Sting
The Cranberries
The droll NYT
Open-to-all Cambridge band School of Honk cofounder Kevin Leppmann: “It’s a profound crisis that most people believe they can’t make music, [that] they can only passively consume it.”
“[W]e’re not saying there are no wrong notes, we’re saying we’re not going to worry about wrong notes.”
Guys, $13 million to make the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool look like a minigolf feature in time for the 250th is an absolute steal! Oh wait…
