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Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered [MUSIC] May-August 2024
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Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered [MUSIC] May-August 2024

We are seeking essays for our May-August 2024 All Things Reconsidered music series. These essays analyze and contextualize classic albums in music history.

Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – FILM Winter 2023-24
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Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – FILM Winter 2023-24

We are seeking essays for our Winter 2003-24 All Things Reconsidered film series. These essays analyze and contextualize classic movies in history.

Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – FILM Autumn 2023
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Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – FILM Autumn 2023

We are seeking essays for our Autumn 2023 All Things Reconsidered film series. These essays analyze and contextualize classic movies in history.

Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – MUSIC Autumn 2023
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Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – MUSIC Autumn 2023

We are seeking essays for our Autumn 2023 All Things Reconsidered music series. These essays analyze and contextualize classic albums in music history.

Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – April/May 2023
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Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – April/May 2023

We are seeking essays for our April and May 2023 All Things Reconsidered series. These essays analyze and contextualize classic albums in music history.

Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – February/March 2023
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Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – February/March 2023

We are seeking essays for our February and March 2023 All Things Reconsidered series. These essays analyze classic albums in music history.

Brandi and the Alexanders View Present Through Past on ‘REFLECTION’

Brandi and the Alexanders View Present Through Past on ‘REFLECTION’

Whether the songs concern racism, family matters, or dancing, one feels the music as well as hears it in Brandi and the Alexanders’ REFLECTION.

Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – September 2022
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Call for Papers: All Things Reconsidered – September 2022

We are seeking essays for our September 2022 All Things Reconsidered series. These essays analyze classic albums in music history.

Guided by Voices Are Subversively Uplifting on ‘Tremblers and Goggles by Rank’

Guided by Voices Are Subversively Uplifting on ‘Tremblers and Goggles by Rank’

Guided by Voices’ lasting power stems from Robert Pollard’s poetic observations, but on Tremblers and Goggles by Rank, the highlight is the hard-hitting and capricious music.

Penelope Isles’ Genre-Hopping Rarely Rises Above Pastiche on ‘Which Way to Happy’

Penelope Isles’ Genre-Hopping Rarely Rises Above Pastiche on ‘Which Way to Happy’

Penelope Isles love a lot of different music, and they spend much of Which Way to Happy approximating those influences and not quite establishing their sound.

Eight AmericanaFest Best (and Not So Great) Moments

Eight AmericanaFest Best (and Not So Great) Moments

There were hits and misses at AmericanaFest 2021 in Nashville, but organizers made a valiant effort to ensure the festival allowed us to hear live music again.

Amy Helm’s Band Bond with Dad Levon Stirs a ‘Flood’ of Memories on Third Solo Album

Amy Helm’s Band Bond with Dad Levon Stirs a ‘Flood’ of Memories on Third Solo Album

Carrying on a family tradition of folksy musicality with joie de vivre, Amy Helm rambles on as a performer enriching the same stomping grounds where her father firmly planted his roots.