The Ladder and The Moon
Part A: Express an early memory: I must have been about six years old. My family was still living at 526 Hermitage in Deerfield, a
October 14, 2018
Part A: Express an early memory: I must have been about six years old. My family was still living at 526 Hermitage in Deerfield, a
I didn’t get a chance to listen to any of Jade’s music before her performance today, so I was really going in blind. Jade and
I love writing and recording songs. It’s one of those activities I lose myself in, consistently imagining, creating, honing, and sculpting language and sound into
Last week I became enamored with the Recamán sequence and over the weekend I decided to use it to create a poem. The beginning of
This Saturday, Maureen and I went to see George Ezra play a mini-concert at Chicago’s Elbo Room on Lincoln Ave. George has been very successful
A friend of mine asked me once “Can you ever write a simple song?” My lyrics have quite often been very cryptic and I think
Yesterday I put the finishing touches on my next album, Reality Jockey. All the songs are totally done, and it’s now time to decide the
Last week, Death Cab was featured in the WXRT Studio X show, sponsored by Goose Island. The band has just released their 9th studio album,
I’ve always considered the recorded versions of my songs to be the definitive ones. It’s taken me a long time to appreciate that playing the
I get the impression that Billy Corgan put a lot of energy in crafting this extremely detailed Smashing Pumpkins show. I also get the feeling