Writer, runner, creative director
No relationship to Penelope, Sylvia Pérez Cruz is a Spanish musician and this perfect little song feels like it has influence from a Ravel string quartet. I recently learned that Spotify has a hidden feature that allows you to translate lyrics inline with the original language. Very useful if you’
Fast women, slow horses. Tom Waits sings Jitterbug Boy, a song with a less referenced subtitle — Sharing A Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and The Mug and Artie. Basically a murderers row of the 1970s LA street poets, drunks, and drunk poets.. This song, in my
Simi, Contemporary Nigerian R&B with hints of retro highlife. Her voice is pure and pleasing. I would like to find more music like this. Unissued excerpt from Duck Rock (Malcolm McLaren). Sung by Malathini & the Mahotella Queens (uncredited, unfairly on the original record). It’s too bad
Sardinian folk music: Maria Dolores Biosa with polyphonic choral backup. Rare and beautiful. 17 monthly listeners on Spotify. Spazzy, minimalist, frantic dancehall - Pon de Floor, Major Lazer (Diplo). Beyonce later lifted the beat (brilliantly) for Single Ladies. Eric Wareheim directed the strange and explicit video for the song, which is
New Orleans brass bands, Greek folk, Louisiana rap, songs of Angola, Beyonce live, early aughts R&B, Michael Giacchino Pixar soundtracks (he's versatile, prolific) and of course, some 60s reggae tracks. Also, I've been enjoying Caroline Shaw's musical interests. She has several playlists
Chess mindset, dance mindset. Solomon Burke, Cry to Me. The way she drags her foot across the floor. Guy Ritchie’s Man from UNCLE; a movie with stronger visual craft than narrative craft. A Useful Ghost. Plot: a dead wife is reincarnated in the form of a vacuum to protect
Sometimes, the brilliance of an artwork is not the object itself, but how it changes the space around it. So it is with coffee beans. Coffee, naturally on its own, smells and tastes delicious. And yet, coffee can be made to taste exponentially more delicious. Similar to pairing wine with
Lost British folk. Jon Mark, 60s folk-rock, later transitioned to new age. ~1,000 plays on spotify. Should be many thousands more. Japanese jazz/hip hop from saxophonist Uyama Hiroto (aka Hiroto Uyama). Cerebral but accessible. The Ethiopians, Fire a muss muss tail. According to jamaicanpatwah.com, “This saying
I saw a video of Alela Diane dancing alone in the sunshine to this song, which is the appropriate way of listening. The lyrics are reminiscent of the narrative of Eternal Sunshine and still sound fine in lyrical form. Voice and looping violin. “Who are you really / are you really
1. Late January or early February is a good time to visit Disney World. Flights are cheaper (especially if you fly on weekdays) and hotels seem a little less expensive. Lines may be slightly shorter but they are never short. There may be no hack for short lines other than
These are the songs that I loved in January 2026. Northern Soul, Sardinian Polyphonic choral music, Balkan Brass bands, New Orleans Bass Bands, South African choral, and rare Bossa Nova from Brazil. The artist cover is by Paul Reed, associated with the Washington Color School (Alma Thomas, Kenneth Noland, Sam
Vampire Weekend on Myspace. What year might this be? 2006 is my best guess. Their mastery of melody visible right from the jump. Vampire Weekend palm wine. Pair myspace with this one. Vampire Weekend samples palm wine star S.E. Rogie, from Sierra Leone. Note that lyrics to this song