...and wants to be free.

A visual review of music and life as the year ends.

Amped up classics for your holiday needs

An excellent one,this. From the artists’ own work to their recommendations, it’s all gorgeous. Take a look.

‘Bob Dylan released Christmas in the Heart in 2009, and the world’s reaction was somewhere between ” . . .” and “WHAT?”’

Of course the Felice Brothers named their Christmas album “Felice Navidad”. I mean, why wouldn’t you?

Like being run over by a cement mixer... in a good way.

Ain’t no party like a Leeds music party ‘cause a Leeds music party don’t stop... even though some of its better bands break up and leave us bereft. 

“[...] so vivid I can almost taste the snakebite and black.”

JJAMZ reinvent themselves as PHASES and share some TRON-like synth-disco. (All the caps. All of them.)

Photo credit: Liza Mitchell

Happy Thanksgiving/Thursday, all.

“... if a Zen garden had hands and could use a keyboard.”

“The thing that really stood out: despite the heat, and the impatience, they had ’em dancing all the way to the back.”

Pig-themed yacht rock. You read that right.

Enter the creepy cinematic aesthetic of punk noir with Dignitary.