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Revisiting Back to Black: You Know I’m No Good

This installment is part of a retrospective on “Back to Black,” the most acclaimed album of Amy Winehouse who passed away 10 years ago this July. I’ll revisit one track every month in order of their appearance on the album Amy left nothing out of her autobiographical second album. She didn’t fantasize too heavily, orContinue reading “Revisiting Back to Black: You Know I’m No Good”

Revisiting Back to Black: Back to Black

This installment is part of a retrospective on “Back to Black,” the most acclaimed album of Amy Winehouse who passed away 10 years ago this July. I’ll revisit one track every month in order of their appearance on the album Banging piano keys don’t typically make for a song anybody would consider “hard,” but thisContinue reading “Revisiting Back to Black: Back to Black”

Revisiting Back to Black: Rehab

This installment is part of a retrospective on “Back to Black,” the most acclaimed album of Amy Winehouse who died 10 years ago this July. I’ll revisit one track every month in order of their appearance on the album Career making and earth shattering, this “song of the summer” lives in each of us ‘rentContinue reading “Revisiting Back to Black: Rehab”

2020 in Music

This written piece is accompanied by my year end playlist “2020 Triumphant” available on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0VLfiJz3w9dBPlzt4iGKqO Music did not take a break in 2020. From big-name collabs that would’ve been recorded at separate studios even without a pandemic, to slow-burners that were obviously recorded from home by artists losing sanity just as quickly as the rest of us,Continue reading “2020 in Music”

Lady Red – A Sparkling Tribute

With so many talents and so many reasons to love her, Lady Red Couture deserves more than one professional identifier. A powerhouse musician is only one such role, but one worth highlighting The first time I met Lady Red was outside Fubar. I had just finished dinner at Laurel Hardware next door and my friendsContinue reading “Lady Red – A Sparkling Tribute”

Chromatica – A Deeper Love

I’ve been all over the map with Lady Gaga. From the earliest feelings of fascination, intrigue and amusement with her cheeky stunts, to the fatigue of her public thirst that would follow. It rounded out years later when it all came into picture, and the world of onlookers came to realize that– surprise!- she wasContinue reading “Chromatica – A Deeper Love”

Songs to Get Us Through

I had every intention of taking an extended pause on this blog. I haven’t been feeling 100% “100,” as it were, and I felt like it was showing. I only want to put out there what will uplift, inspire and invoke meaningful thought, all through my thoughts on music. We all know what’s going onContinue reading “Songs to Get Us Through”

Feature Friday: Wings of Love – LIV

Never heard of LIV? No surprise there. They were a quick project composed of Lykke Li, Miike Snow and Peter Bjorn & John. They only made four songs together over the span of a few years starting in 2016, but each of those songs is something special. The most memorable is “Wings of Love,” which soundsContinue reading “Feature Friday: Wings of Love – LIV”

That Time I met…

Robyn I can’t overstate the importance of Robyn in my musical life. She gave me some much needed relief in the wake of Amy Winehouse’s death and helped me to process so many times– good and bad- throughout my 20’s. And that’s what I told her when I met her. Here’s how it happened… My RobynContinue reading “That Time I met…”

Feature Friday: Eh, Eh – Lady Gaga

Call it a throwback. Call it a reach for obscurity. This “deep cut,” as it were, reeks of the earliest stages of Lady Gaga, who had just barely stopped going by “Stefani” at this point in her career. It’s easy to forget how many good tracks came out of Lady Gaga’s debut album “The Fame,”Continue reading “Feature Friday: Eh, Eh – Lady Gaga”