Saturday, March 23, 2024

On 'Tigers Blood,' Waxahatchee is in her anti-eras era

<em>Tigers Blood</em> is songwriter Katie Crutchfield

Katie Crutchfield's gorgeous sixth album affirms that real lives are lived not in clear chapters, but as a zig-zag of pitfalls and revelations one can only hope to learn from.

(Image credit: Molly Matalon)



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Saturday, March 02, 2024

Rediscovering the rigor of composers Julia Perry and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Composer Julia Perry, photographed in Florence, Italy, in 1957 after she won her second Guggenheim fellowship.

A new album, American Counterpoints, reasserts the importance of two 20th century Black composers whose work has been neglected.

(Image credit: David Lees)



* This article was originally published here