There and Wanting

What we do, what two mistimed people have always done, only ever has one ending. It will never be clearer than it is right now.

Music, Personal EssayGuestOctober 22, 2022St. Vincent, William Faulkner, MUNA, Mitski, Yumi Zouma, Grimes

Songs for the Sforzando Issue (a selection)

The songs our team has been spinning as we work to curate your—& our own—burning & cracking & aching into something beautiful for you.

Shining Out in the Wild Silence: Writing in the Space Between Poetry and Music

I find myself now more and more prolonging these moments of genrelessness: a few breaths in, filling my lungs with clarity.

Music, LiteratureAmrita ChakrabortySeptember 18, 2019Jamila Woods, David Berman, Mitski, Sufjan Stevens, St. Vincent, Pat Pattison, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Tupac, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell

Singing While Rome Burns (A Selection of Music for the Apocalypse)

I’ve found a catharsis in musicians’ emotional responses to the strife in the world right now, and in their visions of what might spring from the ashes.

Selections, MusicAmrita ChakrabortyJuly 30, 2019Hozier, Mavis Staples, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, James Brown, Janelle Monáe, Cage the Elephant, Sufjan Stevens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bastille, Florence + the Machine, the 1975, Donald Trump, St. Vincent, Leonard Cohen, Richard Siken

That Summer Feeling (a selection, a remembering)

The summer of 2016 belongs to “Self Control,” white brick walls, the rumble of the MARTA train—to the warmth and the horror of being alone in a city.

Selections, MusicLexi CovalsenJuly 15, 2019Richard Ayoade, Matt Berninger, Alex Turner, the National, St. Vincent, Sylvia Plath, the Front Bottoms, Frank Ocean, Lorde, Rostam

IV: Grazioso | Uncomposed: "Through Everything"

When she was younger, my grandmother danced cour for a local ballet company.

Columns, Music, Personal Essay, HistoryLydia EileenNovember 15, 2017uncomposed, Dalton Day, Green Day, Pink + White, St. Vincent, My Chemical Romance