by Charles Norman | Aug 13, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Rainsticks – Atlanta Traffic I equate films with sand castles. You get a bunch of mates and you go down and you say, ‘I’m gonna build this great sand castle,’ and you build it. And then the tide comes in and in twenty minutes it’s just...
by Charles Norman | Aug 11, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Chazzy Lake – Glasses In the middle of the nights when she used to play snake and ladders with a man, someone was sobbing helplessly in the deserts. — Lukhman Pambra, My Perverted Thoughts And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large...
by Charles Norman | Aug 9, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Hayward Williams – Fades Away Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I’m a mix-tape, a cassette that’s been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape. — Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape All...
by Charles Norman | Aug 7, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Matthew Barton – When I Was Young It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards… Life at any given moment cannot really ever be fully...
by Charles Norman | Jul 30, 2020 | Features, Music
Furry Lewis – Judge Harsh Blues The Mississippi Delta is a great wedge of alluvial floodplain — the dirt that’s laid down when a river comes out of its banks — that begins just below Memphis, reaches 90 miles across at its widest, then tips out at Vicksburg...
