Natti Vogel is an artist who can transform you. He knows the secrets of music because his soul has been coalesced with the soul of instruments. Violin was taught at 3 years and piano self taught at 10. A musical prodigy, you ask? Not merely so. He is a musical prodigy with messages to bruit. […]
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My dad gave me Patti Smith’s Just Kids for Christmas earlier this year, but it took me forever to get around to reading it. I didn’t know much about Patti Smith’s life, although I had once been a huge fan of her music. I knew her from Tom Verlaine on television, which coincidentally looks like […]
In case you’ve never heard of him, Daniel Johnston is one of the most influential singer/songwriters of the last twenty-five years. But, to understand the music, one must first attempt to comprehend the man. Born in 1961 in Sacramento, CA, and raised in West Virginia in a Christian Fundamentalist household, Johnston began recording “lo-fi” pop […]