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The Bowie Effect (Or, Remembering the Music of 2016)

Posted by Lance Davis - January 17, 2017 - A Giant Dog, Car Seat Headrest, Chance The Rapper, Connections, David Bowie, Dexateens, Dwight Yoakam, Gleeson, Moana, Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Keith

“Something happened on the day he died Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried (I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar)” –David Bowie, “Blackstar” I know, I know. Why didn’t I do my Favorites of 2016 IN 2016? Didn’t we just get rid of that stupid, death-ridden year? […]

The Pitfalls of the City are Extremely Real

Posted by Lance Davis - February 20, 2011 - Backsliders, Bicycle Thief, Bob Forrest, Chris Hillman, Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, Flaco Jimenez, Gram Parsons, Iris Dement, Merle Haggard, Warren Zevon, Willie Nelson

Like California, Los Angeles has been rebuked and scorned in book, film, song, musical, vaudeville, pretty much every medium dating back to protozoan wall art. It’s easy to hate LA. I don’t have much of a problem with the city, beyond traffic, but the entertainment-industrial complex is a whoremaker chewing up everything in its […]