Andrew Shields

Criteria to determine “the best band ever"

Buying a plane ticket in Saarbrücken in the 1990s

The absence of “woke” voices in Susan Neiman’s “Left Is Not Woke” (2023)

Listening to jazz and improvised music as comedy rather than tragedy

Opposition, the transfer of power, and the concept of democracy

Greg Brown’s 1990s visions of the future of technology in “Where Is Maria” and “Whatever It Was"