Reckoning/Reveling – Ani Difranco The writing bug first bit me in 11th grade. I was taking a Journalism class, and for our final exam my teacher gave me two options: interview the gym teacher about the track-and-field team, or write a short story. I had no idea what went into writing a short story,...
The Marshall Mathers LP – Eminem Confidence is like a mountain. Standing at the bottom, the apex looks a mile away. When you’re down, the higher up you have to look, the more unreachable it seems. Some like the challenge; they feed off it. Others, it’s just as easy to say the hell with...
Supergroups are all the rave this decade. Velvet Revolver. Audioslave. The Raconteurs. Chickenfoot. Next in line are the Monsters of Folk: Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, super-producer Mike Mogis, Retro-Nuevo troubadour M. Ward, and My Morning Jacket front man Jim James. If the gold standard is the Traveling Wilburys—and it is—the Traveling Wilburys they are...
After nearly twenty years and five albums as the front man for The Wallflowers, Jakob Dylan has gone solo. At first glance the album’s title, Seeing Things, could look sort of ominous with song titles such as, “Evil Is Alive And Well”, “Everybody Pays As They Go”, and “War Is Kind,” considering who his...
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