SML’s Spontaneous Music Live
Today is the release day for the latest SML album, Spontaneous Music Live. I first heard it in March while driving to Big Ears because I received an advanced preview copy and I’ve been excited for this day when everyone else could hear it. It’s my favorite album of the year. Will it hold on…
“The Dream of the Gentle Flood”: Thomas Pynchon, Brian Wilson, Neil Young & Los Angeles
Listening to Simon Joyner and Tyler Wilcox’s recent conversation about Neil Young’s song “After the Gold Rush” for All One Song: A Neil Young Podcast, I recalled that I had written an interpretation of the same song in an unpublished essay exploring the recurrent imagined image of the flooding of Los Angeles in the work…
2026 Big Ears Festival, March 26-29, 2026
Over-use of the word “community” can quickly turn the most open-hearted music lover into a cynic, especially those wary of corporate appropriation at every turn. Yet it’s hard to describe the people who attend the annual Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN as anything but a community. Big Ears attendees can’t wait to tell you…
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