You don’t get a MacArthur “genius” grant just for thinking big; you get one because your big ideas work extraordinarily well. Mary Halvorson, who was awarded the grant last year, has earned hers by moving from strength to strength. Ever since she began recording in the mid-2000s, she’s projected a strikingly personal voice on the […]
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Cheer-Accident mastermind Thymme Jones on the upside of Herb Alpert’s nervous breakdown
Current musical obsessions of Cheer-Accident mastermind Thymme Jones, human Top 40 encyclopedia Tony Young, and Reader music editor Philip Montoro
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Tears for Fears’ cover of Robert Wyatt’s ‘Sea Song’ is even better than you’d expect
A bonus cover off of a reissue of 1985’s Songs From the Big Chair is today’s 12 O’Clock Track.
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In Rotation: The Numero Group’s Rob Sevier on Richard Feynman’s Safecracker Suite
Current musical obsessions of the Numero Group’s head researcher, Reader staff writer Peter Margasak, and the Hideout’s talent buyer
