ALL PHOTOS BY JASON GONULSEN But I got smarter I got harder in the nick of time Perhaps writing this is all therapy for me, I really don’t know. Enjoying music in 2018 — specifically new music — has become a challenge. Your “best albums” list is going to be different from mine, I get … Read more
Sure, Taylor Swift may have shared the stage with Stevie Nicks the other night at The Grammys. And she may have tried her best to do the hippie dance. But, other than gazillions of album sales and that Grammy she won for “Album of the Year,” I say she’s got nothing on Jill Andrews. (Seriously, … Read more
Feature interview by Jason Gonulsen “It was intentional on my part,” Joy Williams tells me via phone from Venice Beach, California, where she now lives part-time with her husband (and manager), Nate Yetton, and son, Miles. “I felt like it was important to start where I left off, and I’m glad that I did.” Williams … Read more
PHOTO BY JASON GONULSEN To keep all you Ryan Adams fans updated. Happy Friday! Shake it off. Just finished. Spooky It sounds like it could have been in True Detective in a driving scene or smthng. pic.twitter.com/VwsrrZttQm — Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) August 7, 2015 “All You Had To Do Was Stay” as heard on the … Read more
Because it’s Friday, and you needed another Ryan Adams / Taylor Swift update! Guitar coda of “I Know Places” … Well, the beginning part anyway #1989 @taylorswift13 pic.twitter.com/C0nhDp68GP — Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) August 14, 2015 “I Know Places” #1989 Another rad taylorswift jam. Having killer times w cstavish @totally_tod &… https://t.co/yNr1Uwl5ID — Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) … Read more
Photo by Jason Gonulsen The drought was the very worst When the flowers that we’d grown together died of thirst Just last week, a dog named Marvin was lost. There were flyers posted. There was his distraught owner walking the neighborhood, barely able to spit out a complete sentence before he became emotional and started … Read more
Tossing, turning, struggled through the night with someone new And I could go on and on, on and on Lantern burning, flickering in my mind for only you But you are still gone, gone I was a hater. Not of Ryan Adams, but of Taylor Swift — and I was the worst kind: I hated … Read more
Here’s your first taste, Ryan Adams and Tay Tay fans! You can pre-order 1989 beginning tonight at 9PM PST.
Photo by Jason Gonulsen Taylor Swift. I never took her seriously until I saw this. Of course, her pop album, 1989, sounds nothing like that. So why did I care? Because I love (some) pop music, and Swift took her onslaught of hooks on the road in 2015. It was absolutely amazing. There were so … Read more
I love Taylor Swift completely and totally. I love 1989 from start to finish; it is unironically one of my favorite albums of 2014. I love “Blank Space” and its smart and strange and kind of vicious lyrics, its bizarre and amazing attendant video. I can’t wait to see Taylor and Vance Joy on tour together … Read more
As a passionate fan of music, I was delighted to find Act As If’s “There’s a Light” earlier this year — so much, that we at Speakers in Code made it a Pajammy Jam of the Day back in April. It’s a feel-good tune, with the road ahead of us viewed as a positive one … Read more