Out in the Arizona desert, FORM Festival has built its reputation on scarcity, taste and the kind of lineup you commit to rather than discover by accident.
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in 1959, and became an obsessive music fan as a teenager, writing countless letters to U.K. music magazines, running New York Dolls and Sparks fan clubs, singing with the punk band the Nosebleeds, and clubbing in Manchester’s gay bars. Morrissey met guitarist Johnny Marr at a Patti Smith show in […]
Glen Hansard loves being Irish. Heâs well aware that in todayâs current political climate, itâs a taboo thing to say because we live in an overtly nationalist world. But he canât help himself. âAll of our rivers are named after goddesses,â he says in his thick Dublin accent. Thereâs passion in his voice as he […]
I was living in the Boston area in 2013 during the great Massachusetts State Song Debate. The Bay State already has quite a few: Arthur J. Marsh’s 1954 classic “All Hail to Massachusetts,” Arlo Guthrie’s “Massachusetts” (under the “Official Folk” category) and at least one more, including Lenny Gomulka’s banger “Say Hello to Someone...