ACL 2023 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music

At A Closer Listen, we make a clear distinction between winter music and music that is released in winter.  Winter music is evocative of the season and latitudes in which snow and ice take up permanent residence.  The catch is that some

Drum & Lace ~ Frost EP

There’s an amusing story behind Blue Monday (not the world’s incredible top-selling 12″ record of all time by New Order, which didn’t make any money because the die-cut sleeve was so expensive, but the holiday), which we missed by a