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125 Years of Waking Up Stanford TAPS' Production of Spring Awakening
Once we see these things, we cannot unsee them. Read more…
The Food: Solange - “F.U.B.U.”
This is not a earworm that anyone can squeal out to their little heart’s content because it “Gives me life!” or because “That’s my jam!” Read more…
SUPERGROUPS: your week 5 playlist
When stars collide. Read more…
Political Classics: “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) The Relevant, Paranoid Thriller That Will Scare You Silly
It is propulsive, addicting filmmaking of the highest order. It demands our attention, choking and grabbing us by the coat lapels in the process. Read more…
22, A Million: Bon Iver’s New Album ≈ Folk × Yeezus + ∞duality
This is not your “Skinny Love.” This is not your “Holocene.” Read more…
THE SKY IS FALLING: your week 4 playlist
Songs for a wet day. Read more…
BUT I LOVE IT: your week 3 playlist
Songs we love by artists we hate. Read more…
Is Our Art as Polarized as Our Times?
In times of great strife, artists have risen to the challenge of creating work that helps their communities make sense of the upheaval around them. Read more…
DUETS: your week 2 playlist
The best 1-2 punches.
TOM JOBIM & ELIS REGINA – “Águas de Março” – as described by nick burns
It’s the most pure and otherworldly of all the bossa nova standards, the catchiest (“Girl from Ipanema” notwithstanding) and the most happily inscrutable, seeming to exist—not unlike Dylan’s “Mr Tambourine Man”—outside the boundaries of genre, mood, lyrical convention or meaning: is it a sad song? a happy one? Elis and Tom are certainly cute, playing cat and mouse with the mic, but the words and the notes mix melancholy and joy: the titular rains of March, Regina sings, […] Read more…