Adrian Spinelli April 1, 2021
Flock of Dimes builds on Jenn Wasner’s 2016 solo debut with “Head of Roses.” Photo: Rick Kern , WireImage 2017
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NEW ALBUMS
Flock of Dimes, “Head of Roses” (Sub Pop)
The second release from Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak’s solo project beautifully builds on the foundation of her 2016 debut, “If You See Me, Say Yes.” Where her first album was an excellent singular effort, “Head of Roses” is co-produced with Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn and it’s the best material from the North Carolina artist’s prolific musical universe in years.
Episode 475 Noble Rot & Landlady
Aired: Sunday, March 14th 2021
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HOSTED BY Finger on the Pulse
Noble Rot magazine hit shelves in 2013, and nothing has been the same in the world of wine writing ever since. Irreverent, informative and just good fun, amongst Noble Rot’s pages the boundaries between gastronomy and the creative arts often melt away, and you’ll find stories like a compare-and-contrast tasting of French and California wines with Brian Eno. Dan Keeling, the magazine’s co-founder, joins us for the first half of the show to share with us Noble Rot’s new book,
Brooklyn songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Adam Schatz is an active member of Man Man and Father Figures, and has also recorded with Vampire Weekend and Those Darlins. In 2011 he started the solo project Landlady, and has since released three full-length albums. There’s a new Landlady album on the way, and Adam stopped by to play us some songs.
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A DISTINGUISHED writer and editor, Joseph Lee Wood, was also a former Eagle Scout and passionate birder, who, the day after his arrival to the Unity ’99 journalism conference in Seattle, Washington, rented a car and drove to the Nisqually entrance of Mount Rainier, nearly ninety miles southeast, with binoculars in hand. He shared breakfast at the Westin Hotel with then Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley, along with seven other journalists and scholars, including Harvard professor Cornel West. He scheduled to meet a colleague the following day and then left for a short hike in the park.
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