Though it was composed by a Russian and choreographed by a Frenchman in 1892, The Nutcracker is a decidedly American phenomenon. Somewhere in the mid-20th Century, the Tchaikovsky ballet caught on to become a stateside holiday …
Ask Alejandro Escovedo how he is capable of leaping between so many musical modes — with intense performances that have him breaking hearts one minute, snapping guitar strings the next — and he often answers: “I have a good …
Early in the process of choosing the All-TIME 100 Songs—as we editors and writers wrangled over the choices in email chains that grew longer than the extended mix of “Nights in White Satin”—I thought it would be fun to create a single song out of all 100, a pop-tune mash-up spanning 88 years. The video you see above is the end result.
