DEATH & TAXES BY DANIEL CAESAR Story by Patrick Stafrace
With the exception of evening joggers and trend-spotters playing Pokemon Go, Rosalind Park laid dormant. Too exhausted to call home and too cold to trawl through the reservoirs of online music, I launched a playlist on Spotify.
DECEMBER 1963 (OH WHAT A NIGHT!) by FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS. Poem by Kristin Henry
Music is a fast ride./With the first rolls/of that old drum intro/I was snared.
DEEP RED BELLS by NEKO CASE Story by Rijn Collins
My heart hurts as we head towards Port Arthur. So much can depend on one moment; the café we walk into, the car that stops. And as we drive, I tell you about my moment.
DENIS by BLONDIE. Story by Robert Lastdrager.
I sat before the drum kit and just marveled, before playing along to my Blondie 7-inch single Denis as loud as my record player could go.
DEPRESTON by COURTNEY BARNETT Story by Thomas Robinson
For once, people in Los Angeles and London and New York might be sitting around listening to a song about where I lived, rather than my sitting around listening to songs about all the places that they live.
Descent Into The Maelstrom by Radio Birdman
Earl O'Neill Beverly Hills 2209, 1982I had a direct line into the rare chances that rock and roll might gift me. Radio Birdman to The Clovers, Kinks, MC5, to the best friends I’ve ever known.