Author: Helena Lynch

There’s something amazing in how people romanticize space. We look at the stars and see love, although there – only vacuum and radiation. In 1984 Limahl sang about the neverending story, and this was not a metaphor, but a literal truth in how synthesizers can stretch time to a state of weightlessness. Forty years later…

Brilliant ideas rarely visit people in moments of triumph. For example, Charles Darwin honed the theory of natural selection not at banquets, but during monotonous walks along the gravel path near his home. But the list of those who caught enlightenment in the most inappropriate (or too mundane) moments can go on endlessly. Often extraordinary…

It is commonly believed that faith is the prerogative of temples. But for Cole Lumpkin it is found elsewhere: “Faith is about trusting yourself. In what you love and what you seek to be. In how intensely you adventure on the path of your life.” Under conditions of progress, the sacred moves onto monitor screens…

Winter in Los Angeles is, to be honest, conditional. January there smells not of snow, but of dust from highways and overroasted coffee. The city lives in a mode of eternal rehearsal – as if everything is still ahead and the main stage is only being built. In such an atmosphere, voices that don’t try…

A rare and fascinating bird has flown into our “net.”EP “In My Rearview” is by Dani LaCour – a songwriter and singer from Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. This release wasn’t made by someone basking in fan attention, but by a woman and mother who’s taken a few hard hits and learned to choose herself again. The record…