December 7, 2024
All art contains politics, no matter how overt or covert or messy or inconsistent they may be. This is inevitable because all expression emanates from a particular world view, and every world view is ultimately political.
July 18, 2016
RIP Alan Vega of the band Suicide. I’ve had a crush on him all this time. Goodbye, Alan, goodbye. 2016, you are a pitiless year.
America, America / Is killing its youth:
July 8, 2016
For friends in America in these terrible days, a favourite from my childhood, probably because of the combination of Ann Peeble’s voice and the sound effects of the production.
July 4, 2016
Back row standing: Suzannah Norstrand, Melba Moore, Marjorie LiPari, Lynn Kellogg, Emmeretta Marks. Middle row: Natalie Mosco, Lorrie Davis, Diane Keaton. Front row sitting: Shelley Plimpton, Leata Galloway
Progress isn’t a straight line, so feminism isn’t on a straight line either.
April 24, 2016
Purple is associated with mourning as well as all the better known things—royalty, magic and spirituality etc. Somehow I’d forgotten this until Prince died.
I am so gutted by this news, I don’t even know what to write.
November 7, 2015
I was there; I should know. As one caption to this video read, very accurately, “this is what it was like 24/7.”
I went looking for clothes the other day but everything was 80s, badly printed shirts and high waisted jeans the colour of skim milk.
March 9, 2015
This is a superb and historically important album, a compilation of music by indigenous musicians in Canada 1968-1985. It’s telling that I had only heard one of these tracks before hearing the album; it points to a disturbing lack of airplay of native music during those years.
February 25, 2015
What did ancient Babylonian songs sound like? Possibly something close to this. Composer and performer Stef Conner and the Lyre Ensemble have put out an album of songs they believe are close to ancient Babylonian songs, using the original poetry.
February 6, 2014
Oh 1973, I am so happy to see you yet again. Last week it was Sensations Fix, and then yesterday someone posted Sangue Latino by Secos & Molhados.
January 7, 2014
Noel Gallagher by photographer ©Andy Willsher, reprinted with permission
Rolling Stone: Did you see that [Arcade Fire has] asked people to wear formal wear or costumes at their shows?
