Steve Says

Following what I thought was a quite strong year for new music in 2023, I found 2024 a bit lacking — as all three recorded music categories ...

I once again listened to hundreds of new records in 2023 and I’d say that it had the most that I really liked — if not loved — since 2019. T...

I continued to seek out and discover a lot of new recorded music this year and, while I don’t think it will ever excite me the way it did wh...

I try not to live in the past too much so, as always, I kept searching out new music throughout this past year. While I don’t know if music ...

This year was typical in that I listened to hundreds of new albums. I don’t have to tell you why it was atypical, as COVID-19 impacted all o...

San Agustin is an unassuming small town in the Andes Mountains of western Colombia, but it’s surrounded by what’s said to be the largest ...

I’d heard of Poland’s Wieliczka Salt Mine cathedral and, as long as travel bans are lifted by the end of June, I plan to visit it as part...

I’ve been fascinated by the clifftop monasteries that balance precariously  in the Meteora region of central Greece since seeing them in ...