Every year is a good year for music. 2025 is no different. Getting the tap on the shoulder to be a contributor to Aquarium Drunkard this past spring meant that I also participated in the 2025 version of AD’s annual Year in Review compilation. Its existence is conclusive evidence of my opening statement. Personally, I’veContinue reading “Favorite Albums of 2025”
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2024 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN – March 23, 2024
Click here to find all of Recliner Notes’ coverage of 2024 Big Ears Festival. The rain let up at some point on Friday night, so attendees of 2024 Big Ears Festival were spared a second day of soaked clothes and dampened spirits. Because your humble narrator “overran his coverage” for my first day at thisContinue reading “2024 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN – March 23, 2024”
Planets
This post was originally published on May 21, 2023 and was updated on July 29, 2024. “I do think that songs are little utopias for people to live in for three or four minutes.” Bill Callahan shared this sentiment during a 2022 interview with Uproxx to promote the release of his album YTI⅃AƎЯ, and itContinue reading “Planets”
Finite
The Aboriginal Australians have a central story that encompasses the beginning of the world known as the Dreaming or Dreamtime. This narrative describes a spontaneous act, or “that moment when the world first came convulsively into being, thrown up in an explosion of energy by ancestral spirits.”1 Dreamtime is a single concept of religion andContinue reading “Finite”
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