
- "A Glorious Dawn" - Carl Sagan feat. Stephen Hawking. Maybe worth a chuckle or two, and a fist-bump for cleverness, John Boswell's AutoTuned Sagan delivers easily my hook of the year. That the tune lands in the existential sci-fi angst/abstraction sweet spot, well, that's just cosmic gravy: - America: A History in Verse by Edward Sanders (Blake Route Press). An omnibus CD containing the first five (of nine) volumes of the Fugs' co-founder's' sweeping project, which reads like a warmer and more playful version of Howard Zinn's [...]