Columns
Shuffle: Conservatism
As we get older, we tend to get set in our ways, we become more conservative, often with a big C. I read somewhere that we set our patterns for our future at quite a […]
Articles by David Cowling
Columns
Shuffle: Toomey, to you: an appreciation of Jenny Toomey
Jenny Toomey was prominent on the Washington DC Hardcore scene in the early 1990s, she played in several bands including Choke, Geek and most notably in Tsunami. It’s not this part of her career that […]
Columns
Shuffle: Obscurity Knocks!
My last column covered the creation of a playlist culled from the mass of tracks on my iPod. I painstakingly worked through the 33,000+ tracks, and in doing so there were many explosions in my […]
Columns
Shuffle: The Late Summer Holiday Playlist
This year along with millions of others, we’ve had to think differently about the kind of holiday that we will be going on. Normally we unthinkingly (well there is a bit of thought about where […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Joe Henry “Trampoline”
If it wasn’t for this album, Joe Henry would be a minor footnote in any history of Americana that I might write, perhaps more memorable for being Madonna’s brother-in-law. His early records were serviceable and […]