Miranda Sound’s Western Reserve at 20 Years Old: “Time Travelers Stuck In Time”
In 2006, four musicians from Columbus made a record about the pull of home and the cost of leaving it, about a war sold on lies, about warmth that drains away so slowly you never notice it's gone. Twenty years later, Miranda Sound's Western Reserve reads like prophecy. It wasn't foresight. It was precision, a band describing its own time and place so carefully that the description still holds while the world keeps turning.
A Complete Unknown (2024)
A Complete Unknown isn't really an argument for who Bob Dylan was — JB Minton's thesis is that nobody's there, that Dylan has always been a vessel for the art rather than a man you can pin down, and everyone who loves him ends up telling their own origin story instead of his. His is thirty years long: a Time-Life box set bought sick with pneumonia at nineteen, a Time Out of Mind CD that wrecked him sideways, a burned-out bartender who made him promise to go back and start with Freewheelin'. The film, he argues, is worth what it opens up in you, not what it claims to explain.