David Porter’s 20,000 Things I Love: Self-Imposed Exile and Fatherhood (Part One)
Tuesday night I reorganize my record collection; I often do this at periods of emotional distress....
Author: David Porter
The Secret Rooms Where His Voice Still Consoles Us: A Look Back At Bruce Springsteen’s Working On A Dream
I am a 45 year-old American from a bedroom community in northeastern New Jersey now residing...
David Porter’s 20,000 Things I Love: Marshall Crenshaw
(Photo courtesy of Geoff Tischman) In 1982, following the release of his eponymous debut, a young...
David Porter’s 20,000 Things I Love: Air Traffic’s Fractured Life
Marrying the crispness of British New Wave to the force and melodicism of Britpop, Fractured Life,...
20,000 Things I Love: The Gutter Twins’ Saturnalia
“So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and...
20,000 Things I Love: Paddy Casey
“Starting on my long journey back to America I had gone for my last and favourite...
A Pirate Looks At Forty: Todd Snider’s Peace, Love and Anarchy
B-side collections are often difficult propositions, unless you’re the kind of slaverous, slobbering fan who bought...
Navigating The Hammered Heart: Justin Currie’s What Is Love For?
(Order Justin Currie’s new album This Is My Kingdom Now here) One of Scotland’s Great Gentlemen...
Offering Your Demons The Adjacent Barstool: Michael McDermott’s Noise From Words
Whatever happened to Michael McDermott? He came roaring out of Chicago in 1990-1991, all of 20...
Pop Song As Hanging Garden–Pete Yorn’s Nightcrawler
Welcome to the third Pete Yorn album. Nightcrawler isn’t as outstanding as musicforthemorningafter (2001), but it’s...