#Music
Art & Culture10 of 19
Here I am again, for the second year in a row, sharing my list of top 10 albums of the year before the year ends. Even if you, reader, are not impressed, I am.…
December 28, 2019 · 3 min read
Art & Culture10 of 18
Before I launch into my top albums of 2018, can I first get some acknowledgment that this is the first time since 2010 that I'm putting out my "best of" list…
December 29, 2018 · 3 min read
Art & Culture10 of 17.
It's been awhile, hey? Truth is, between parenting and working full-time, I just don't have much time for anything else. It bums me out, but it is what it is.…
January 9, 2018 · 4 min read
Art & Culture10 of 16
Let's just pretend for a moment here that we're not already halfway through March and I still haven't posted my top albums of 2016. But really, is anyone…
March 16, 2017 · 3 min read
Art & Culture10 of 15
So sometime in January I promised my Twitter followers that my top 10 albums of 2015 list would be published before month's end. But if you're reading this,…
February 22, 2016 · 5 min read
Art & Culture10 of 14.
This year saw a lot of good music, but my own personal experience is that there was not a lot of great music—music that made me want to listen again and again,…
January 1, 2015 · 8 min read
Here & ThereHelsinki: Sibelius Monument
Since studying music at university in the early 2000s, the name Sibelius has been familiar to me. However, I associated the name with the song composition…
June 30, 2013 · 2 min read
- Art & Culture
Hamburger Schule I.
A story that I often find myself telling German musicians during interviews is that of when and how I first got into German music. More often than not, this is…
October 26, 2012 · 3 min read
Life & TimesSnail Mail Surprises.
Living in a foreign country has definitely been a whirlwind experience, but now that I’m - as of today - officially nine months into the whole thing, my life…
April 13, 2012 · 3 min read
Art & Culture10 of 11.
I realize it’s already a few weeks into 2012, which means that I’m relatively overdue on my best of 2011 list (at least, by blogger world standards)… I was…
January 16, 2012 · 10 min read
- Life & Times
Concert-going, part 1.
One of the ways I’ve been spending my time (my evenings anyway) is by checking out the local Berlin nightlife. No, no, I don’t mean discos. I’m not certain if…
August 22, 2011 · 7 min read
- Art & Culture
Swedish Music
Swedish radio is a bit of an anomaly to me. Not only is the programming quite different from how it is in the states (stations that play songs our mainstream…
January 7, 2011 · 2 min read