In the last week of 2016, we're featuring just a few of the songs that, for whatever reason, never got their due this year.
Horse Jumper Of Love writes fitting music for the shortest days of the year. The Boston trio's slow, syrupy rock songs feel heavy and dark. When the songs shimmer — in twisting riffs or in singer Dimitri Giannopoulos's sweet, sad voice — they're less like the flash of a Christmas tree and more like the glare off a snowbank. Read More...
Top 10sBooksStories are lived in bodies, and made in them, and these books – from memoir to fiction, poetry and beyond – illuminate a central part of human experience
In some ways, every book is about the body. No one lives apart from theirs, and so no writer, speaker or character exists fully removed from the simultaneously fragile and indispensable fact of a corporeal existence. Stories are lived in bodies and made in them; language itself is created in breathing and muscle, in gesture, contraction, release. Read More...
By early 1970, The Beatles were on their last legs as a band. The previous September, during a particularly hostile meeting, John Lennon had told the other members of the group that he was leaving.
That didn’t strike anyone present as a big surprise. After all, a disgruntled George Harrison had quit the group for a while during the Let It Besessions earlier in ’69. Meanwhile, everyone in the band (Ringo included) had solo projects going. Read More...
