Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s by...
For financial reasons, I was only able to swing one day of Fun Fun Fun Fest so I’m blogging while many in this fair city are catching some good music in Waterloo Park. Although, admittedly, if you’re...
View ArticleGrace of My Heart gets a “meh” from me
Last night, my friend Erik came over with a copy of Allison Anders’s 1996 feature Grace of My Heart. As it’s loosely based on Carole King’s life and I read Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us this past...
View ArticleBack to the piano, songwriters
Last week, I whiled away a Sunday morning on Marc Lawrence’s Music and Lyrics. My partner, anticipating that the 2007 rom-com was going to be a shitshow, voiced his displeasure by asking, “You realize...
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