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No one cooks up a genre stew quite as charmingly as they do

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When you're in a groove. You're unwavering, undeviating

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My job is to make everybody feel something

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I don’t believe that jazz will ever really die

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Make music your tool for survival

You don't just watch this performance again, you return to it

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The Song Is Operating On You

We move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy

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The joy you knew before words?

The Question That Haunts Every Christmas

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When the Body Remembers What the Mind Forgot

A nightmare scenario was transformed into a masterclass.

Dec 20, 2025 • Clarion X

What was the most legendary concert experience you have ever had?

Can’t Find My Way Home. Why We Stand on Sticky Floors to Remember Who We Are

Dec 13, 2025 • Clarion X

She was what funk was

About the woman who didn’t need a velvet wrapper because she was the steel itself

Dec 7, 2025 • Clarion X

The Kids, the Grandparents, and the Guitar on TV

How Music Braids Three Generations Into One Long Song

Nov 29, 2025 • Clarion X

Operatita. Velvet wrapped around rebar

The Rebar Is Not What You Think

Nov 22, 2025 • Clarion X

When you're in a groove. You're unwavering, undeviating

where everything you question leads you to new avenues and new routes

Nov 13, 2025 • Clarion X

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The First Voice of Tomorrow

The Acoustic Rebel: Weaponizing Rarity Against Musical Conformity

Nov 1, 2025 • Clarion X

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Life is a series of dissonant notes, beautifully out of tune

The $24 Billion Underground Symphony

Oct 25, 2025 • Clarion X

New Guitar Gods. Creating New Forms of Loneliness

The Anti Virtuosity Virtuosos

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From wartime scrap to emotional healer

A story of pure creative alchemy

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What If We Stopped Asking ‘What Genre Is This?

Genre Orphans: What Happens to Your Identity When Music Categories Die in 2025

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When Hated Songs Predict Who We Become

Emotional Contraband: The Underground Railroad of Feeling

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