anearful

There are number of releases at least adjacent to rock and pop that have been energizing me throughout 2021. Get into these albums (and one ...

The year's halfway point is a good opportunity to take stock of the music that has been animating my year, some of which I haven't h...

For the last four or five years, there's been an increasingly bitter battle over what it means to be an American. There are some of thos...

Some of the hardest work of writing AnEarful is choosing what to share out of the many, many recordings that come my way. As ever, the cream...

There was a sound. It was coming from over there, traveling through air to me, here. It was music and it was LIVE, being played right in fro...

The combination of words and music is as old as language and songs continue to be astonishing transmitters of thoughts, ideas, and feelings,...

There are times when unremittingly bleak music can provide necessary catharsis. At other times - like our current moment, I believe - a more...