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”
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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”
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”
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: Linger – The Cranberries
This song is one of my earlier music memories. I recall visiting my (way) cooler older cousins for the summer and latching onto everything they did. It was all so much grander in the bigger metropolitan area that they lived in versus the dorky suburbs that I came from. I was in single-digit aged atContinue reading “Feature Friday: Linger – The Cranberries”
I'm Just Gonna Dance All Night 