I see these stories. The good guy comes. He gets there in time. He saves the girl. Saves the town. Saves himself. Fine. But what if he doesn’t? What if […]

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I am doing too many things at once,keeping a small weather systemabove my head. A song in one hand,a deadline in another,three unanswered lettersbalanced on my nose,a tour rolling toward […]

By two in the morning Eddie had played forty minutes of music, sold three CDs, lost his phone charger and agreed to sleep in the basement of a man named […]

Halfway through making his record, Marlon developed carpal tunnel. He blamed the piano, then the computer, then age, then the piano again. His wrist hurt when he played octaves. Occasionally […]

I worked a few years ago with a musician who was shitty to work with, mostly because he lied. Not enormous lies. Just the kind that slowly makes working with […]

Sandy who owned the Peter Pan died, which is a rotten trick even for Peter Pan, a place whose very name suggested nobody was supposed to get any older in […]

Dave Davies isn’t waving a little progressive-rock flag saying, “Look everybody, I’m in five.” The basic pulse can be heard as five beats to the bar, often felt less as […]

Kurt Vonnegut loved musicbecause it had the decencynot to explain itself. Nobody askswhat position it takeson capitalism. The drummer hits the snare. A trumpet plays B-flat. So it goes. Vonnegut […]

Judee Sill put Jesusin the passenger seat beside desire, heroin, Bach,and whoever hadn’t called back. No seatbelts. Her chords kept opening doorsbehind other doors, a hymn becamea love song, the […]