Amy White - Deeper Into Music Contributor

“Vinyl Fetish” was the name of this punk record store I used to frequent in Los Angeles. It was run by a guy named Henry. I’d go in there and Henry would cut my hair. I hadn’t thought about that place for a long time until recently, when the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke...
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In Philip Gröning’s 2005 documentary Into Great Silence we spend almost three hours in the company of monks who’ve taken a lifelong oath of silence in a Swiss monastery. This lush beautiful film gives us a fleeting sense of a life of profound, ascetic quietude. It’s a paradox, of course, for a sound medium...
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Three tunes from the Deeper Into Music archive with a dreamy submerged sound that just kind of pulls you under… Kiara by Bonobo Tweaked electronica. Halting beats. You can feel the gaps. Beeps and blips and faux harps. Swells and grooves. Great interstitial sound. Nice to sometimes barely have vocals. ...
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I used to know the guys in this band called Translator. Their one KROQ hit was a tune called Everywhere That I’m Not, a kind of jetsetter anthem about missed connections. One night in LA some of the Translator guys were heading out to hear a band called Echo and the Bunnymen and invited me...
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Is it possible to rock out to a waltz? The Schramms make me a believer with their song Home on Little Apocalypse. The lyrics - apparently based on a poem by Emily Dickinson - are pretty inscrutable and mysterious: "If my coming were my will I could not belong/'cause my heart isn't...
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Near the end of Cameron Crowe’s self-described love letter to rock and roll, Almost Famous, Elton John’s Mona Lisas and Madhatters plays as Patrick Fugit, serving as the fictional stand-in for the incredibly young Crowe the Rolling Stone writer, seeks out Kate Hudson as the charismatic yet tragic Penny Lane. As with most...
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