singer songwriter – Page 2

Daily Dose: Tiny Ruins, “Me At The Museum, You In The Wintergardens”

Nobody feels old at the museum.

Daily Dose: Norah Jones, “Killing Time”

How can it take so long?

Daily Dose: Jeremy Dutcher, “Ancestors Too Young”

Jeremy Dutcher is a Wolastoqiyik member of Canada’s Tobique First Nation. A composer, an activist, an ethnomusicologist, Dutcher is an absolute force. NPR even called him a leading light in the country’s Indigenous Renaissance in 2018. I’m just beginning to discover what he’s creating and I’m very much impressed.

Daily Dose: Serge Gainsbourg ft. Jane Birkin, “Je t’aime…Moi non plus”

News spread over the weekend that Jane Birkin has passed away at the age of 76. Few people have had more of an enduring impact on my sensitivities than Birkin, and her daughters–Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon–are a constant source of kindred inspiration to me. I won’t even get into how she reminds me of my mother, which is a long way of saying…this one hits home.

Daily Dose: Florence + The Machine, “…Mermaids”

In a century that feels increasingly godless, a post-religion era, we each choose our own saints. I choose Florence in my search for cheerful oblivion. And dancing like I’ve never danced before.