Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 45
Worse than ever……. This blog was set up as I retreated to the shed at the bottom of my garden to teach my lessons as we plunged into lockdown nearly two years ago. This morning I […]
Sufjan Stevens
AUK's Chain Gang
AUK’s Chain Gang: Sufjan Stevens “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.”
Last week, Russell Murphy remembered ‘This Bird Has Flown’, the 40th anniversary tribute album to The Beatles’ ‘Rubber Soul’, and shared with us The Yonder Mountain String Band’s version of George Harrison’s ‘Think for Yourself’. Another […]
Columns
Shuffle: Funeral Music
These dark days of the global pandemic have not in any way increased the number of times I think about the music I want to be played at my funeral. I have been thinking about it […]
News
Nick Drake and Wilco appear on “This is Us” soundtrack
If you’re a fan of the mawkish show then why not soundtrack your own life with its original music? Pitchfork reports:”The music from the first season of “This Is Us”—NBC’s tear-jerking, time-jumping drama series about a […]
News
Sufjan Stevens announces new live album
And one with pictures too, like watching Nigel Farage broadcasting on LBC (but with slightly less casual fascism). Pitchfork reports: “Sufjan Stevens has announced a new audiovisual live album, Carrie & Lowell Live, due out April 28 […]