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  • Episode 463: Raphael Cormack!

    Episode 463 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s episode, theater scholar Raphael Cormack and I discuss the allure of Arabian music, the revolutionary times in Egypt between the world wars,… Continue reading

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  • Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #19: Silica Gel’s May Day

    Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #19 by Stephen McClurg Silica Gel: May Day (2020) Silica Gel’s May Day opens with the title track, a lilting version of an estampie by twelfth century troubadour de Vaqueras. The liner notes say, “We hope our rendition, with drums-a-pounding and whispering voices reminding you of all you love but cannot possess allows you… Continue reading

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  • Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #18

    Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #18 by Stephen McClurg Christopher C. King’s Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe’s Oldest Surviving Folk Music (2018) In an interview, Christopher C. King said that he doesn’t listen to music after 1940. The least generous image that came to my mind was a Mr. Show segment in the… Continue reading

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  • Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #17

    Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #17 by Stephen McClurg J.J. Anselmi’s Doomed to Fail: The Incredibly Loud History of Doom, Sludge, and Post-Metal (2020) A music history flavored with memoir, Doomed to Fail could be a user’s guide for anyone interested in metal and its hideous progeny. Along with histories of the guitar and distortion effects in… Continue reading

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  • Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #16

    Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #16 by Stephen McClurg Dua Saleh: Rosetta EP  (2020) The songs on Dua Saleh’s Rosettasurge through rap, pop, and rock–sometimes in the same track. Considering the namesake of the EP is Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Dua Saleh’s Sudanese-American Musilim background, the record expresses the desires, joys, and challenges of a multi-hyphenated existence. A video… Continue reading

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  • 452: Grace Elizabeth Hale!

    Episode 452 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). This week, I talk to historian Grace Elizabeth Hale about how Athens, Georgia helped launch an indie music revolution with the B52s, REM, Pylon, and… Continue reading

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  • Episode 432: Kyle Eagle!

    Episode 432 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). This week, I talk to podcaster Kyle Eagle about music and everything. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at… Continue reading

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  • Episode 430: Jared Silvia!

    Episode 430 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, I talk to writer, musician, and producer Jared Silvia about the connections between music and writing, the history of synth-pop,… Continue reading

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  • Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #14: Sweating to the Goths

    Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #14 by Stephen McClurg Sweating to the Goths In middle school, I couldn’t elude the yearly discussion of the science fair project on how different music affects plants. In English classes, someone would try to recycle their report as their English research paper. Today, there is keen interest in the… Continue reading

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  • Aesthetic Drift #22: Celestial 57

    Aesthetic Drift #22 by Chelsey Clammer Celestial 57   The stars vibrated above me. Within me. Synchrony. At 2 a.m. I would walk back to my truck at seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old, having come from a concert, the music still clamoring along my bones. Late ’90s, downtown Austin, where my favorite band, Sister 7,… Continue reading

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