Eastside View

Radiohead guitarist links up with director Paul Thomas Anderson for a third time.

Range of Light, an album by S. Carey on Spotify

S. Carey lyrics are just....

A bill is being drafted that would end annual testing requirements. What would schools do without them?

Sweet little yellow-haired girl sat down in front of me this week. So shy she could barely look me in they eye, hid cautiously behind those lovely locks. I tried to warm her up before the testing began "do you have any pets?". Sweet babe looked up "yea, we gots some ah' them doggies n horsies. I like to ridin them horsies". Sweet girl was in first grade, rural Texas city. In with me because she wasn't keeping up in school. Let's expand on that.

How would you like to speak in front of an entire class or to a teacher when you still don't have your verb tenses down? When you look at a sentence and can read the second and fourth word. You probably wouldn't like that too much. But as you can guess, the teachers are tired, the other kids are moving faster, and everyone is expecting my sweet yellow head to just catch up. 

Well everyone, she will. But she needs more help than the rest and she needs more attention and she should NOT be left behind or kicked to the side because she doesn't meet the milestones we have arbitrarily chosen. 

Black Messiah, an album by D'Angelo on Spotify

January 15, a playlist by 121765483 on Spotify

Grab a hot drink and a blanket and stay cozy with Brandi Carlile, The Barr Brothers, Sharon Van Etten, and more.

Details on 35 prospective records that are keeping our hopes up for music in 2015, from hip-hop heavyweights Kanye and ...

Records to look forward to in the coming months

Y'ALL. KUTX 89.9 is my jam shit sesh daily in ATX. Like even when I'm not in the car I'm checking their playlists and streaming from my kitchen table. Anywho, these DJs are all so unique and have such a fun and personal style in their music choices and they made a 2014 top album list! I'm agreeing so hard with so many choices and also discovering what I missed in 2014 (goddamn good year in music, amiright?)