I first learned about Howard over ten years ago thanks to a stray comment on MetaFilter, and she’s since become one of my all-time favorite artists. So it’s a nice bit of payback to write up this lengthy MeFi post exploring her musical career in advance of her new album and tour, whose first single “What Now” dropped...
And while Devo may be saying farewell to touring, it’s not entirely the end. A new box set of rarities, Art Devo 1973-1977, is coming in September along with a documentary in production by Tiger King director Chris Smith. However, there’s no sloppy sentiment about retiring from performing from Mothersbaugh. “I’m looking...
In July and August of 1961, Johnny Cash recorded a batch of songs that became the basis for Blood, Sweat and Tears, a record many regard as merely a concept album about working people. But Blood, Sweat and Tears is a concept album about race in America, about the violent enforcement of racial hierarchies in America. It is the...