Category: music
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When I logged in to WordPress earlier I received three messages about the “health” of my web site. Not only did I not understand what the hell it was talking… more ›
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Even though we balked at spending yet more time online, we ended up taking part in at least 43 art events, both in-person and virtually, in 2021. Here are the… more ›
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For the past few years I’ve tracked all the art events that my partner and I attend together. We are avid supporters of the arts. All of them. In 2020,… more ›
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We have been ardent supporters of the arts since our undergraduate days. Last year around this time, a colleague at TheaterJones wrote about seeing over 100 shows, mostly theater, I… more ›
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Anthony DeCurtis’ Lou Reed: A Life is perhaps the worst nonfiction rock-and-roll book I’ve read, and I’ve read Marianne Faithfull’s (though much more likely, David Dalton’s) Faithfull: An Autobiography. Despite… more ›
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On a rain-splattered Saturday about sixty people made their way to an evening of avant-garde sound and performance art in Exposition Park, Dallas, in order to hear, among other things,… more ›
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For the past few weeks I purposely didn’t look up articles about Johnny Marr. I didn’t want to discover that he too, like that other person from the Smiths, had… more ›
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Slowdive Concert, Granada Theater, Dallas, April 2018 I see several concerts every year, and I recently saw Slowdive for the second time live. Near the end of the concert they… more ›
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One of the most unique and talented singers I’ve been listening to for the past five years is Cold Specks. In 2013 she collaborated with Moby on two songs for… more ›
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Kronos Quartet is one of my favorite music groups. I first saw them perform live in 1989 or 1990, and as the cliche goes, they changed my life. I had… more ›