New Directions In Music

An Afternoon with Depeche Mode

Getting to see the world from another person’s perspective through music that has some meaning to them

Jan 5 • Marshall Bowden

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December 2025

In 10 Tracks: Christmas Edition

Songs that I look forward to hearing a maximum number of times in December

Dec 13, 2025 • Marshall Bowden

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December Will Be Psychedelic Again

Magic Fig/Valerian Tea and Melody's Echo Chamber/Unclouded

Dec 10, 2025 • Marshall Bowden

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Mix Tape Mania/1972: Bowieverse vs Taylorverse

A Side: Glam influenced rock/B Side: Singer-songwriter

Dec 1, 2025 • Marshall Bowden

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November 2025

In Ten Tracks: U2

In Ten Tracks is not a best of or greatest hits or even necessarily a list of favorites. They're songs by an artist that stuck with me for various…

Nov 25, 2025 • Marshall Bowden

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'Stage Fright' & 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'

The ploughboy will always feel the pull of the city, but sometimes it turns out that’s not the place to be.

Nov 19, 2025 • Marshall Bowden

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Donna Jean Godchaux: In Memoriam

May the four winds blow you safely home

Nov 13, 2025 • Marshall Bowden

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Jack DeJohnette: In Memoriam

If a music is a craft that one works to develop over a lifetime, then Jack DeJohnette was surely a master craftsman.

Nov 3, 2025 • Marshall Bowden

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October 2025

Selling Subversion by the Pound

Van Gogh's madness and culture as field trip

Oct 23, 2025 • Marshall Bowden

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The Dream Syndicate/Medicine Show: (I Know What You Like)

Deluxe reissue of group's second, long unavailable, album

Oct 16, 2025 • Marshall Bowden

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Dinah Washington: Two Gems From the Mercury Years

Dinah Jams and After Hours With Miss D are Dinah Washington’s jazziest albums as the singer cuts loose with a solid cast of jazz all-stars.

Oct 9, 2025 • Marshall Bowden

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The Grateful Dead/Blues For Allah

50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition and Angel's Share releases

Oct 3, 2025 • Marshall Bowden

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