Mabel and how it all started (part 3)

There is no discussion. This is one of the best songs of one of the best albums of the last decades. If you have any doubts you just have to listen to it again. I was 20 years old when “Grace” by Jeff Buckley was published but I remember the first time I listened to […]

Beautiful losers (part 3)

Some stories are too sad to be told. The life of JACKSON C. FRANK is one of them. Fire, accidents, stray bullets, depression, alcohol, death, vagrancy,…

Lieven and how it all started (part 3)

The night seemed lost, like so many in that time of student melancholy, until the radio host announced a song by a new band. SPARKLEHORSE was the name.

Beautiful losers (part 2)

KAREN DALTON’s tragic life was marked by addictions, alcoholism, the loss of her children, depression and AIDS. All this darkness turned her into a blinding light when she interpreted the songs of others.

Mabel and how it all started (part 2)

Again, the story begins with a tape recorded by a friend and a song that I could not stop listening to, from a band I had never heard of. The song was “IN THE MOUTH A DESERT” and the band was PAVEMENT.

Lieven and how it all started (part 2)

I had always loved Nirvana. Their noise was a perfect reflection of my adolescent brain. That’s why I sat down, somehow skeptical. Nirvana unplugged?? Without any noise??

A beautiful loser

You will never find a more beautiful loser than Blaze Foley. In this video he plays his masterpiece “If I could only fly” at a wedding, surrounded by drunks. It makes us cry every time we see it. Because there is nothing more beautiful than a gentle defeat.

I either feel everything, or I feel nothing

Our society is not very tolerant to suffering and feeling lost. So apart from having to deal with the beast of depression, you also have to fight the stigma that goes with it. That’s why it’s so very important to raise our voices, share our experiences and normalize the disease.

Strange Fruit

Change the trees into waves, and the South states into the Mediterranean Sea, and you’ll understand why every time we open the newspaper these days we think of “Strange Fruit”, the incredible punch in the stomach in the version of the equally incredible Billie Holiday.

Mabel and how it all started

Do you remember when there was no internet? And we spent hours in record stores and our friends’ rooms searching for new music to listen to. I do.