#anniversaryoftheweek
— Janis Joplin, Get It While You Can
On this day in the year 1971, three months after her death, Janis Joplin’s album (fourth overall) Pearl was released.
What’s your favorite song on this album?
Category: Suggestions of the Week
Quote of the Week, #4
“It’s easy to do sex, but it’s not easy to do love in whatever form. And if you can’t love, you can’t live, no matter how smart you are: things end up being jangly, hollow, and ultimately worthless. The idea that you just go through life, leaving behind wives and mistresses and abandoned children, and doing great art – for me, that can’t be a way to live. Social responsibility starts with the people who are around you, and you can’t endlessly be discarding things. […] The male push is to actually just discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space. But you know, love is also about cleaning up your mess, staying where you are, working through the issues; it’s not simply romantic love at all.”
– Jeanette Winterson in an interview for the Guardian (Claire Armitstead, 25.07.2021)
Song of the Week, #3
— Fatoumata Diawara – Nsera feat. Damon Albarn
Destination. Amazing song and a visually stunning video.
What’s your song of the week?
Quote of the Week, #3
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
— James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Song of the Week, #2
— Benjamin Clementine, Delighted : from his forthcoming album And I Have Been, out 28 Oct 2022 on Preserve Artists Co.
… The consequences are yours The frequencies are yours The possibilities are yours Cause the vision is yours … We lean, We learn, We earn, We turn, We burn Then start again Cause we’re delighted …
What’s your song of the week?
Quote of the Week, #2
The revolution is about going to the playground with your best girlfriends.
– Bikini Kill #1, 1990
Song of the Week, #1
— Tamino, You Don’t Own Me : from the upcoming album Sahar
In the anticipation of the album’s release (this Friday!), we’re soaking in these haunting lyrics in haunting melodies with his always incredible voice. Enjoy the song and the video above!
What’s your song of the week?
Quote of the Week, #1
Passion can make drama out of inert stone.
— Le Corbusier, Towards an Architecture (1923)
Music releases that made our year (so far)
Something happens in those moments when you are with a friend or a complete stranger, driving through crowded streets or empty roads, sharing a late night drink and a few smokes, or just passing by, and one of you puts on some music to which the other one instantly replies Oh I love this song!. A connection, a subtle yet strong form of intimacy, or maybe companionship as we like to call it. Sharing good music is one of the greatest universal joys, and one of our most essential joys, too, so we’re starting here, with some of our favorite releases of 2022 (it’s a rank-free list!). This year’s been good, looking at it from this perspective.
Love our selection? Have any suggestions of your own? Let us know below and share the wonder.
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