Month: May 2019

  • #songoftheday / #amlistening = Starbreaker feat. Tony Harnell & Magnus Karlsson – “How Many More Goodbyes”

    “How Many More Goodbyes” is one of my favorite songs from Starbreaker’s excellent third album, Dysphoria. If it’s not one of the best power ballads you’ve heard in ages, then you must be listening to something pretty great that I’m completely unaware of because I can’t think of one I’ve found so touching in a…

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  • #SONGOFTHEDAY / #AMLISTENING = Cœur de pirate: “Ne m’appelle pas”

    Cœur de pirate — a.k.a. Beatrice Martin — has returned already, hot on the heels of last year’s fantastic album, En cas de tempête, ce jardin sera fermé. Whether this is a one-off single or she’s already made, or is making, a new album, I do not yet know. What I do know is that…

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  • MUSIC (GODDESS STYLE): AN INTERVIEW WITH NATHASSIA

    MUSIC (GODDESS STYLE): AN INTERVIEW WITH NATHASSIA

    interview by Michael McCarthy “Synchronize your mind with me, a revelation,” sings Nathassia – channeling the Sumerian Goddess of love and war, Inanna – on her new single “Goddess.” It’s a trippy, electro/pop/dance/world music song that’s so, so good, it’s almost as divine and addictive as chocolate. Just listen to the mesmerizing track once and…

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  • BOOK REVIEW: AMID SUMMER’S NIGHTMARE BY APRIL L. WOOD

    BOOK REVIEW: AMID SUMMER’S NIGHTMARE BY APRIL L. WOOD

    review by Michael McCarthy As the story begins, our heroine, Summer Wormwood, finds herself sentenced to spending her summer at Camp Bitter Tonic. It’s kind of like summer school, but also like a charm school and, more importantly, a school for witchcraft. The students learn everything from cooking to having good posture to walking over…

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