Mark Mordue·Jul 12, 2020RushmoreSinister and rousing, Donald Trump’s Fourth of July speech at the foot of Mount Rushmore will go down as one of the great political…
Mark Mordue·Mar 30, 2020Living in the Time of DylanSo Bob Dylan releases a new song. It’s nearly 17 minutes long and rides off the assassination of JFK. And yet it seems to be about…
Mark Mordue·Jan 19, 2020The New BrutalismWhat brutal times are these? Leaving the cinema after viewing Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You, the story of a northern English family…
Mark Mordue·Jan 3, 2019Nick Cave — Premonitions of LoveI’m in a conversation inside a car inside a song. I say we’re inside a song — as much as a car or a conversation — because the lyrics to…
Mark Mordue·Feb 10, 2017Bruce Springsteen’s Rock & Roll SalvationMy desire to see Bruce perform is a yearning to be young—tonight he returns that love
