Music reccos/rants/prayers/curses by critic and co-listener Chris Richards
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Birds of paradise
A record to listen to on Sunday, June 7, 2026.
Sunday morning is a good time for listening. Time feels different and life feels possible. Each Sunday, I publish a short piece about a recording I find most worthy of these listening hours.
Screen off
Not sure if this is what the name is about, but catching a set by the DMV duo Lifted involves being hoisted out of your reality and dropped into another. When I last saw them perform at the Fridge in Washington D.C. back in April, Matt Papi...
Sonny’s crush
I’ve been thinking about Sonny Rollins’ childhood crush for a straight week. He’d been thinking about it for seven decades.
I was interviewing the jazz dignitary — who died last Monday at 95 — over the telephone in 2011, and we were talkin...
Portable predawn
A record to listen to on Sunday, May 31, 2026.
Sunday morning is a good time for listening. Time feels different and life feels possible. Each Sunday, I publish a short piece about a recording I find most worthy of these listening hours.
Hiding the horizon
A record to listen to on Sunday, May 24, 2026.
Sunday morning is a good time for listening. Time feels different and life feels possible. Each Sunday, I publish a short piece about a recording I find most worthy of these listening hours.
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