Outside the Joy The Detroit Cobras

Outside the Joy The Detroit CobrasPreview Outside the Joy is filled with poems that sear with lyric clarity about grief, love, survival, and wonder amid personal loss and environmental collapse. Tracing losses both interpersonal and universal from a mothers failing heart to environmental and economic decline ravaging ancestral homelands OUTSIDE THE JOY is a compendium of abundance in a world rife with want. With a voice as singular as it is illuminating, Awad explores the sharp

the late Seymore Stein

and life on the road

WEDNESDAY KNUDSEN – An overview of the work of this genius rural Massachusetts-based contemporary zone folk goddess

we go into detail about why the mysterious Seymour Glass from Bananfish matters so much

more evolved place

with a tremendous evaluation of his most important work by the great music writer Andy Beta as the cover feature

as it contains no covers

The latest Icons column finds Michelle Dove exploring the work of Chicago’s beloved Douglas McCombs

marrying the heavy and ethereal in a way that only this group has been able to facilitate

Sixties Davies British Invasion through 80’s British Bunnymen post-punk

well-illustrated tour diary of a brief jaunt with these noise greats

a place where grizzly teeth-rattling noise and explode like fireworks one moment before gliding seamlessly into melody-laced sugary pop hooks and the kind of considered songwriting that truly belies their age