The Debut Album Project: June (“The New Americana”)
June found us turning our focus to America: specifically in an attempt to broaden the musical definition of the term Americana. For far too lRead More…
Tag: Silver Jews
An Introduction to David Berman
Anyone with more than a passing familiarity with Pavement should know the name David Berman. A college friend of Stephen Malkmus and Bob NastanovRead More…
Welcome to Pavement Month
In one of the first articles for Strange Currencies, I professed my love of R.E.M.. I’ve since doubled down on the claim that they are my favoritRead More…
Top 100 Albums of the 1990s – Part 2
What kind of self-respecting website would Strange Currencies be if we didn’t take an incredibly complex decade of music, and reduce it to a Read More…
A Century of Song: Part 28, 460 – 441
A Century of Song is an attempt to summarize 100 years of popular music through 1000 carefully chosen tracks. Included within this list are Read More…