december 2020 edition.
Sounds
- Mighty Sparrow, “Leave the Damn Doctor”
- Cheekface, “Listen to Your Heart. No.”
- The Strawbs, “Part of the Union”
- Ink Spots, “Somebody’s Rocking my Dreamboat”
- The Harptones, “The Masquerade Is Over”
- “Blue” Gene Tyranny, “Leading A Double Life,” Out Of The Blue (40th Anniversary Remaster
- Maria Chávez, Gray Sound Session
- Tim Daisy, Room To Breathe
- Dayna Stephens, Right Now! Live at the Village Vanguard
- Suemarr, “Candy Says” and Minstrel
- Ragas Festival WKCR-FM
- Give The Drummer Some with Doug Schulkind, Playlist from November 20, 2020
- Chris Bohn presents Adventures In Sound And Music
- James Gormley presents Adventures In Sound And Music
- Amended Podcast, “Embers and Activism”
- The Dig Podcast
Words
- John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field
- Pankaj Mishra, “Grand Illusions,” New York Review of Books, 19 November 2020
- Casey Nelson Blake, Daniel H. Borus, and Howard Brick, At the Center: American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
- Alan Liu, Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age
- Sheila Liming, “Fighting Words,” Los Angeles Review of Books
- James Livingston on “Ain’t Called Jacobin for Nothin’: On the Constitution of Revolution, USIH Blog
- John Mackintosh, “The Past Is Now: On Amin Samman’s History in Financial Times,” Los Angeles Review of Books
- Sarah Jaffe, “The Living Is Easy,” Bookforum
“Walls”
- Feliciano Centurión — Abrazo Íntimo al Natural, directed by Mon Ross
- Rodney McMillian, Body Politic, Vielmetter Los Angeles (h/t Natalie Haddad, “Rodney McMillian Deftly Treads the Line Between Politics and Aesthetics,” Hyperallergic)
- Jenny Holzer, You Be My Ally
“Stages”
- Stephen Petronio Company, Virtual Bloodlines Festival Premiere: Rainer & Paxton
- Jon Langford and WIll Oldham, Fitzgerald’s Presents Song-for-Song
- Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel, Citizen MKE
- Mars Williams presents: An Ayler Xmas Vol. 4 (Night 2), Constellation
Screens
- Arhoolie at 60
- Steve McQueen’s Small Axe Series: Mangrove; Lovers Rock; Red, White and Blue
- The Crown, Season 4
- Designated Survivor
- Il Candidato
- Killing Eve, Season 3
- Kimberly Mack with Emily Lordi, Fictional Blues, Popular Music Books in Process Series