Sometimes, we listen to old stuff. Today, I talk about something by Michel Fugain for A Year In December. At some point this year, I had an apple pie. I don’t remember the details of the dessert but I know that I had apple pie because I listened a lot to Michel Fugain’s 1972 hit […]
Friends – Glorietta
Friends make the best music. Today, I talk about something by Glorietta. The one time I saw Matthew Logan Vasquez perform live was at Delta Spirit’s final show. When it came time to perform ‘California,’ a soaring electrical anthem that is probably the band’s most well-known hit, he instead handed it off to Kelly Winrich, […]
You Break My Heart – The Milk Carton Kids
Most bands change. That includes The Milk Carton Kids, my subject today for A Year In December. Artists grow out of their styles. Laura Marling, The Tallest Man On Earth, all the way back to Bob Dylan. Countless songwriters have opened up their sound by moving away from the acoustic guitar. Although the first question […]
Lo Que Construimos – Natalia Lafourcade
Today, for A Year In December, I talk about something by Natalia Lafourcade. I don’t remember the specific book in the Hitchhiker’s series by Douglas Adams though it might have been So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, the protagonist Arthur Dent learns bird language. After a while, he realises it’s incredibly boring and […]
Listening In – Dr. Dog
Today, I talk about something by Dr. Dog for my music series called A Year In December. The first time I heard of Dr. Dog was on the radio. For whatever reason, the DJ decided to introduce the coming song by saying that he knew a lot of people, including Pitchfork writers, who didn’t like […]
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