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ONLY NOISEThe Women of Country Music Offer Wisdom in Times of Crisis

Loretta Lynn's alcohol-soaked pity party for herself in "Somebody, Somewhere" echoes quite a lot of our newly solo Saturday nights. Dolly Parton reminds us all that wealth is a state of being, rather than the (declining) value of our bank accounts. Lucinda Williams asks the simple, but potentially...

Cat Woods

ONLY NOISEA Can Of Earworms

It is unrelenting. Circular. A clump of chains I can’t untangle. It is like that hedge maze in The Shining: I cannot get out of it. I am trapped. Trapped in the ceaseless sax solo from George Michael’s “Careless Whisper.” But why? Why is it stuck in my head, in a perpetual loop? What part of my...

Madison Bloom