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A Live Music Retrospective

May 7, 2010 9 min read Music & Performing Arts Patty Griffin Stryper

[http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RyanAdams06.jpg]Ryan Adams in concert (Image via Wikipedia [http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RyanAdams06.jpg]) I’m pretty sure my first concert was Stryper [http:

An Unlikely Guide Points The Way Home

Apr 16, 2010 5 min read Music & Performing Arts music sunglasses Supertramp

It is early in the morning on my deadline for this column; I was up before the dawn. I’m notoriously late in delivering my work to the editor, which is probably why

So Dark You See: The Music of John Gorka

Apr 2, 2010 6 min read Music & Performing Arts

“If you’ve just heard the records, you might think I’m a really sad, somber . . . depressed guy.” In fact, John Gorka has perhaps mastered knowing when to be serious, even somber, and

Art Meets Town

Mar 5, 2010 4 min read Music & Performing Arts

Art and artists have historically tenuous relationships with their native geography. Think of Hemingway and the other American ex-patriots of the Lost Generation. Think of my friends and family who have moved away

This Pain Is Not For You

Feb 19, 2010 4 min read Humanity Music & Performing Arts

Does sad music demand any ethical responsibilities of its listeners? Can we use sad music any way we see fit? Or does the disclosure of pain oblige us to think carefully about the

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