Swinging Modern Sounds #92: Perfection
You will now find some version of the list below. It is imperfect.
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Rick Moody
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Rick Moody is the author of six novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and a volume of essays, On Celestial Music. His most recent publication is Hotels of North America, a novel. With Kid Millions of Oneida, he recently released the album The Unspeakable Practices (Joyful Noise recordings).
Swinging Modern Sounds #91: In Four Equal Parts
Part of what makes Belly important and lasting, that is, is that they really think and feel a lot.
Swinging Modern Sounds #90: Haikus for Pets
If you like Owen’s haikus, and even if you don’t, you’ll really love his album.
Swinging Modern Sounds #89: In Praise of Tom Petty
Because Petty was so prolific and so popular, the intense craftsmanship of his body of work has been hiding in plain sight.
Swinging Modern Sounds #88: Music for the Masses
The interview, like the project Iso Omena, is both funny and revealing.
Swinging Modern Sounds #87: The Low and Dishonest Years
[T]hese are albums to distract you from the horrors taking place daily in the theater of American political life.
Swinging Modern Sounds #86: Transcendentalism!
The point is not to control the medium, the point is to interact with the medium, to find out what’s natural to it and what’s native to it and work with that, respond to that.
Swinging Modern Sounds #85: The Introduction of the Pitch
It seems like it’s the point of this piece to draw attention to the fact that these instruments are wounded; it shouldn’t be something that tries to hide it.
Swinging Modern Sounds #84: Music for Spaceships
Perhaps space is an inevitable resting place for music of this kind, because time is completely different when conceived of in the vastness of space, and not only because of relativity.
Swinging Modern Sounds #83: On George
There really is not a day that doesn’t go by that I don’t stop at some moment and think about George Harrison.
Swinging Modern Sounds #82: Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark: A Symposium
...yet she did what she did, and in the process made the most successful album of her career.
Swinging Modern Sounds #81: On Cultural Preservation
The Lost Boys had their moment in the media, but these people, these survivors, not boys at all and not lost now either, are still here, living lives, growing and changing and thinking and reflecting.