The Best Songs of the 2010s: Hana Zara, “Day of the Dead”

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Nov 072019
 
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“Day of the Dead” is as much a short story as a song. And like many good short story writers, Hana Zara offers enough evocative details to sketch a few narrative outlines while leaving much of the specifics to the imagination. Continue reading »

The Best Songs of the 2010s: Vedora, “Lowdown”

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Nov 062019
 
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Greil Marcus first coined the term “the old weird America” to describe the strange sounds on Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music collection. He connected those ’20s and ’30s folk and blues recordings to Bob Dylan and The Band’s “basement tapes,” which drew these dawn-of-recording-technology sounds and songs into the pastoral country-rock 1960s. Continue reading »

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