Friday Link Session
Check out our friend Pete David of the Payroll Union and Andrew Heath of the University of Sheffield in a nice, little interview, talking about music, history, the new Payroll Union album, and their upcoming collaboration. Read a 1990 essay on hip hop by the late David Foster Wallace and co-author Mark Costello at The … Read more
The Payroll Union: There Are Songs to Be Sung
Our favorite musical history professors are back. Pete David & the Payroll Union have dropped the “Pete David &” from their name (though lovely Pete David himself remains) and have released a new EP, Your Obedient Servant. The band from Sheffield continues to lay moody, moving music rooted in Americana traditions under stories of … Read more
Pete David & the Payroll Union: Ghosts Came By and They Told Us to Go
Recently, while listening to a band whose genre was listed as “Americana” but who were not from any of the Americas, let alone the United States, I likened Americana music in the ’10s to Irish music in the ’90s – a genre named for a country, rapidly filling with non-native practitioners. But that phenomenon … Read more