Anyone who doesn’t know that I spend a ridiculous amount of time listening to, thinking about, talking about and writing about music really, really hasn’t been paying attention. I will talk about music, and why I love it, and musicians I’m fixating on, and how it makes me feel, with anyone who will listen. That…
Tag: stories about songs
(and i feel fine)
The first album I ever bought for myself was R.E.M.’s Green. On tape. I was — 9 or 10, I think. I loved the hell out of that album, and it led me, in middle school, to newer R.E.M., and in high school, to older R.E.M. They were the first band I ever said, “That’s…
punch brothers @ cat’s cradle
I saw Nickel Creek just once, at the Vic in Chicago, almost — God — 8 years ago. I genuinely have no idea why I decided I wanted to see them back then, because while I always enjoyed them, I was never what you would call a huge fan; I suspect it was because it…
love is a mix tape
jason isbell acoustic @ the berkeley cafe, originally uploaded by minervacat. My music collection, these days, is primarily digital. I still own a ton of CDs — they slide around in the backseat and under the front seats of Azula the Little Red Toyota of Doom, they’re stacked on the bottom shelf of one of…
one for sorrow, two for joy
August And Everything After is 17 years old this year. I think, for a lot of people close to my age, that album was formative. I was 13 when it came out. I loved it relentlessly and fiercely and as though it was something entirely my own, despite the fact that the video for “Mr….
brand new kind of photography 