Daily Newsletter, December 29, 2022

After an ever-changing pandemic shut us all down for what seemed like an eternity, a bright spot opened up in 2022. Artists began releasing a plethora of new music to help us cope with our unprecedented experiences. The downtime allowed the creative minds time to work. And work they did. New album after new album […] More

Nobody was prepared for the arrival of Before and After Science, but it’s hard to imagine a world without it. Brian Eno’s previous output offered nary a

Giles Martin talks to us about his work on the new deluxe editions of The Beatles' 1966 masterpiece, 'Revolver.'

On Todd Snider's third (official) live album, "Return of the Storyteller"

Interesting.

The one tenet that seemed to unite the music industry leaders, journalists, and historians who authored the following books is that music is a healer as

The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Our favorite docs of the year, from Moonage Daydream to Fire Of Love, prove filmmaking is in the midst of a nonfiction resurgence

It’s been more than 60 years since Rod Serling first showed up in black-and-white on television screens across the country and introduced us to “a series of imaginative tales that are not bound by time or space or the established laws of nature.”

In my realm, the most sophisticated, intelligent, difficult thing anyone can do is create something mysterious. It could be a poem, a photo, a movie, a song, a symphony, or a piece of painted wood. What's most important is the mysteryand that experiencing the mysterious creation inspires in the observer a desire to probe its hidden realms, to somehow figure it out. Human cultures are founded on mysteries: Mysteries incite art, inspire science, and facilitate dreaming.