Photo Credit: Erica Beckman Sometimes I think of how life must have been for you here What life could have been like for you here What life should have been like here with you On November 9th, 1938, Clare Burson’s grandmother, Helga Rabinowitsch, left Leipzig, Germany, for the United States. Rabinowitsch fled moments before the … Read more
I am still on my return journey to the world of the living after three days with no sleep, and while it was a beautiful weekend, I need some rest. Mountain Oasis may be over, but thankfully I was able to capture some pictures to document the madness. Here for you today is a sampling of my … Read more
We’re ankle deep in the 21st century by now, and the whole “festival” thing is starting to sound a bit passé, don’t you think? Mark my words, in the not-so-distant future music summits will be all the rage, leaving the music festival behind as a relic of the past. The way I understand it, the … Read more
All photos by Dylan Newcity I’ll be laughing out loud I’ll be laughing with everyone I see Can’t believe how strange it is to be anything at all The reverence surrounding Jeff Mangum is daunting. His once cult following has become more akin to a legitimate religious cult, whose zealotry has only grown more fevered … Read more
When Elizabeth Ziman of Elizabeth & the Catapult responded back with her 10 to Spin playlist, our first one of 2012, her theme of “Awesome Broken Voices” intrigued me. I started listening to Ziman’s voice back in 2010 when we featured “Go Away My Lover,” taken from her 2010 album, The Other Side of Zero, … Read more
“My band played here a lot in the ’90s when we had lots of female fans, and fuck, they all were cute/ now I just sign posters for guys in tennis shoes.” The above lyric from Mark Kozelek’s newest entry to the Sun Kil Moon catalog strangely, and sadly, hit home for me after attending … Read more