Zoë Lance.

  • Gold Star for the Internet: KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic”

    On weekday work mornings, I listen to music to focus myself and tune out ambient office noise. There are two things that happen to me quite often: 1. I end up listening to the same bands and records over and over and over again. 2. I feel like a slug from 8 a.m. to about…

  • Tune Time: October & November 2016

    Here’s what I’ve been listening to for the past two months: Bon Iver’s 22, A Million. 1. I was an extremely casual fan of Bon Iver before 22, A Million came out, but the YouTube lyric videos pulled me in. I knew enough about Justin Vernon to know that his music swirls in the indie folk…

  • Tune Time: August & September 2016

    Here’s what I’ve been listening to for the last two months: Frank Ocean’s Blonde. Let’s get the obvious out of the way — Frank Ocean’s Blonde is a masterpiece. It withstood all of the hype, and was the best way to cap off the summer. I was instantly hooked the moment I heard the first few seconds…

  • Tune Time: July 2016

    I listened to some really good music — some longtime favorites, some new-to-me tunes — in the month of July. Let’s get into it. Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. I really cannot believe that it’s taken me this long to listen to The Dark Side of the Moon from beginning to end,…

  • Tune Time: June 2016

    Here’s what I listened to in the month of June: Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense. Imagine the Zoë you know and love today as a 15-year-old, combing through the CD section at her local public library looking for music she can take home and put on her iPod nano. One of those CDs happened to…

  • Tune Time: May 2016

    Here’s what I’ve been listening to lately: Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home. I realized recently that I don’t listen to a lot of Bob Dylan, and that I needed to fix that to keep my rock cred. I decided to start with Bringing It All Back Home, his fifth album. This is best known…

  • Tune Time: April 2016

    Here’s what I’ve been listening to lately: The Last Shadow Puppets’ Everything You’ve Come To Expect. I’m a pretty big Arctic Monkeys fan, so I will basically listen to anything that concerns Alex Turner. I loved this side project’s earlier album, and was so into the first single that I planned to buy tickets before…

  • Gold Star For The Internet: NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts

    In my travels across the Internet, I stumble upon many gems that when I see them, I wonder where they’ve been the whole time. One of these gems I want to share is NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts. Back when I had a much longer commute, I loaded my phone up with as many podcasts about…

  • Tune Time: March 2016

    At any given moment in my day, there’s a very high chance that I’m listening to music: on my phone, in my car or via my record player. (Shocker: I’m listening to music as I’m writing this post.) Music — and talking about music — has been a very big part of my life for as…

  • Link Party: 3/7-3/11

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. These two professors programmed a computer to analyze the works of authors with and without MFAs, and when they looked at the data their results were Not Good. 2. When you listen to music, you’re never alone. 3. I relished in reading about Iris Apfel’s recent week in Paris.…

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