VALENTINE’S DAY PLAYLISTS — STAFF PICKS
Whether you’re strictly analog or a digital wizard, creating a mixtape or a playlist, music sets the perfect Valentine’s Day mood. We polled our own staff for the tunes that remind them of falling in love all over again. Jack Firneno, Managing Editor: Sometimes I want a carefree romance again or think about what makes...
STRKING A CHORD WITH ROMANCE – THE MAKING OF GREAT LOVE SONGS
BY JACK FIRNENO PHOTOS COURTESY OF JOHNNY PENA, MARC WHITAKER AND ILLINOIS Turn on any radio station or flip through your iPod. Odds are the majority of the songs you hear and see are about love in some form or another. But with so many out there, what makes a great love song – the...
JARED COSTA – ART AND LABOR, WORK AND PLAY
BY JACK FIRNENO | PHOTOS COURTESY OF JARED COSTA It’s a funny thing about singers who adopt an everyman persona. By the time an artist like Bruce Springsteen or John Mellencamp puts out their first album, their few – if any – years of trudging through a forty-hour work- week are long behind them. Of...
