Nick DeRiso / August 11, 2010 5:39 am
by Nick DeRiso Crowded House, beginning with their engaging breakthrough 1987 hit “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” were shot through with a complexity, and a melancholy, that belied their own supposed goals of becoming pop stars. Yet, in the wake of the 2005 suicide of drummer and co-founder Paul Hester, never have they had so much to be melancholy and complex [...]
Mark Saleski / July 28, 2010 3:45 pm
by Mark Saleski Music obsessives and “regular” folks alike know of the song/memory retrieval phenomenon — you hear a song and instantly remember where you were the first time you heard it. The speed and clarity of detail associated with the song can be quite amazing. There have been claims that odors produce even stronger connections. This is almost true [...]
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