The following request would probably be more appropriate — and potentially more effective — on Twitter, but it’s a cause too near and dear to my heart to relegate to the trenches of social media discourse.
Author: Steven Strauss
Me and My Random Thoughts
Me and My Girl, the final production of this Encores! season, is very…Encores!
Wrote Too Soon…
After listening to the first two songs of Ski Mask the Slump God’s BEWARE THE BOOK OF ELI, I quickly wrote it off with this snide derision:
Cohesive Diversity
First and foremost, an album must be cohesive.
Single(s) of the Week
If you have an aversion to reading the word shit, tread no further here.
HANNAH (Andrea Pallaoro)
With Hannah, Charlotte Rampling further cements herself as the Queen of wordlessly-anguished loneliness.
Revision Vision: A QUIET PLACE
If A Quiet Place was a play, I would say it’s in desperate need of a dramaturg to devise richer dramatic manifestations of the aural concept.
This Week in Music
I got around to only two albums this week, one great and one…not so great:
An “Original” Postscript
I concluded my recent post about expanding our conception of artistic originality by quoting, gulp, Kanye West.
Sound Hound
Back in 2016, there was a concert performance of Ragtime inside the Registry Room on Ellis Island.
