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Basemental Farewell: Was I a Music Critic?

Basemental Farewell: Was I a Music Critic?

by Will Meyer | Sep 10, 2019 | Articles, Basemental, Columns, Featured

Editor’s note: This is Will Meyer’s last column as the author of Basemental.  A music critic is something I’d never thought I’d be. I hardly knew anything about music, I certainly was no authority. I was a little surprised when former Adovcate editors...
Basemental Farewell: Was I a Music Critic?

Basemental: Ruth Garbus sets Earth-loving lyrics to earthy chords

by Will Meyer | Aug 27, 2019 | Articles, Basemental, Columns, Featured

Brattleboro singer-songwriter Ruth Garbus strikes a deep place in the human psyche. Her strange earworm melodies and narrative lyrics have a way of lodging deep. This is especially true for Garbus’s new album, Kleinmeister — German for “small master,” which is set to...
Basemental: P.U.M.K.S. Is Not Dead

Basemental: P.U.M.K.S. Is Not Dead

by Will Meyer | Aug 15, 2019 | Articles, Basemental, Columns, Featured

Jesus Vio’s new album Dutch Science kicks off with the mother of all questions: “Do You Believe?”: The vamping, minimalist, proto-acoustic track wryly asks “Do you believe in Halloween?” before declaring that “P.U.M.K.S. is not dead,” introducing the irreverently...
Basemental: Ugly Realities of Sustaining Life in the Cul-de-Sac

Basemental: Ugly Realities of Sustaining Life in the Cul-de-Sac

by Will Meyer | Aug 1, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Featured

Woodblock printmaker, sculptor, and quilter Eli Liebman and I went for a walk recently. Traversing the edge of North Street to the dike in Hadley, Liebman was fixated on the implied violence lurking beneath the surface of quaint, suburban life — from the colonial...
Basemental: No need to dig beyond Kurt Vile’s riffs to enjoy

Basemental: No need to dig beyond Kurt Vile’s riffs to enjoy

by Will Meyer | Jul 25, 2019 | Articles, Basemental, Columns, Featured, Music

When The New York Times profiled Kurt Vile in the fall, they titled their piece “Kurt Vile, Indie Rock’s Charming Riddle.” The implication, of course, was that the long-haired indie rocker had a Rubik’s Cube to decode, something to latch onto underneath the...
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