Aesop Rock
Aesop Rock gives Jacksonville some quality hip hop – the kind so good that even shoegazer Jessica Whittington can’t appreciate.
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Best Coast
Best Coast sells out The Social, but Jessica Whittington and one of the Bethanys squeeze in, stick thier hearts on their sleeves, and resist calling their exes.
Wavves/Best Coast
Indie rock’s boyfriend/girlfriend pair Nathan Williams and Bethany Cosentino of Wavves and Best Coast teamed up for a short co-headlining tour that stopped in Tallahassee, Florida. Jessica Whittington whittled her way into the sold-out show and liked about half of what she saw… but which half?
Nina Simone: The Biography
The distance between Eunice Waymon and Nina Simone is explained and explored for Jessica Whittington in this somewhat dry biography.
Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah
Tim Footman’s biography describes the sexual, intellectual, depressing romantic that is Leonard Cohen, leaving Jessica Whittington no choice but to put a little whipped cream on it and eat every word with a spoon.
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
There’s only one man whose swagger can quiet a crowd of 600,000 people on the cusp of rioting. His name is Leonard Cohen , and once again the poet/musician surfaces from images of the past.
Leonard Cohen
Live in London (Sony). Review by Jessica Whittington.
Love
Out Here + False Start (Collectors’ Choice). Review by Jessica Whittington.
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