by Van Sette | Jun 14, 2018
Like so many people, I have a lot of feelings about Tupac Shakur, a man and artist who needs no other introduction, so I won’t provide one. What’s kept me from sharing those feelings until now is that, as a white woman, I haven’t felt it entirely appropriate to muse...
by Van Sette | Jun 1, 2018
Etta James was a soul singer with an earthy and mighty voice, and the penchant for delivering heart-wrenching ballads. Through her music, Etta taught us a thing or two about love and romance; that intimacy takes trust, that relationships can end seemingly out of...
by Van Sette | May 25, 2018
This weekend celebrates the 51st anniversary of The Beatles’ 1967 release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the original concept albums and an aural experiment that changed the landscape of song recording. It wasn’t much earlier than 1967...
by Van Sette | May 24, 2018
Bob Dylan is a musical poet, spending a lifetime delivering on the very definition of folk music by bringing us the news of the day in bleakly hopeful and oftentimes downright heartbreaking lyricism. He’s a fine musician, but there’s no doubt his medium is...
by Van Sette | May 11, 2018
If nothing else, the new Arctic Monkeys album lives up to its name. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino travels either through space or time, or probably both, to host us in something of a 1970s, space-age, Bowie-like resort of the utterly chillest quality. The band...
