While watching this year’s RockyGrass Festival, I thought of one of my favorite quotes from the American designer Charles Eames: “The details are not the details. They make the product.” This is a simple yet profound statement. A great book […]
Out of Kalamazoo, MI, have come winds of musical change and sonic transformation. Guys like Paul Hoffman take a mandolin and channel it like an instrument of telepathic immersion. Swimming in a third world where the spiritual erupts and slides […]
Phish – St. Louis ‘93 (6-CD Set) There’s something very exciting about listening to Phish live recordings from 1993 – a crucial year in which the band was transitioning from smaller venues to theaters while also honing the improvisational skills […]
The Colorado bluegrass duo Taarka takes its name from the sound of Indian spices roasting. With these simple facts in mind, their music is just as rootsy and hippie-ish as you’d imagine it to be, and I don’t mean that in a […]
