Scott Stroud

Feb 3, 2025 | msn.com | Scott Stroud

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Feb 3, 2025 | msn.com | Scott Stroud

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Feb 3, 2025 | apnews.com | Scott Stroud

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a clipped Nordic accent, Swedish indie folk singer Sarah Klang politely asked the soundboard operator at Nashville’s Blue Room to turn up her microphone. The request, made recently during a rare U.S. performance in the intimate music space attached to Jack White’s Third Man Records, seemed entirely unnecessary. Her voice could fill every crevice of the room, even if she used no microphone at all.

Jan 24, 2025 | epw.in | Scott Stroud

It is well known that B R Ambedkar had great respect for John Dewey, a prominent American pragmatist philosopher and his sometime teacher at Columbia University. Yet no one knows much about what Ambedkar heard in Dewey’s courses, what books he read from the prolific Dewey, or what he saw as useful to appropriate or change, and what he resisted, in Dewey’s philosophy.

Aug 1, 2024 | nwitimes.com | Scott Stroud

Scott StroudAssociated Press Canadian folk-pop trio Wild Rivers takes the name of its new album from the opening cut, “Never Better," but the implied assertion is at least debatable. The band's last full album, “Sidelines," landed in 2022 as a no-skip masterpiece, combining memorable, original hooks with angsty lyrics that made the band's rise to top-tier status seem inevitable. This album, set for release July 26, doesn't sustain those heights all the way through, but that's a high bar.