The political impact of Monday's Supreme Court ruling that three of four provisions of Arizona's immigration enforcement law are unconstitutional — and that a fourth could eventually be found to be — certainly appeared, at first blush, to be a significant political win for President Obama.
When the pianist Esbjorn Svensson died in a scuba accident in 2008, many fans of his group, the Swedish trio known as E.S.T., wondered if there might be some unreleased experiments lurking in a studio vault. There were. Just out is a disc called 301, which was recorded in 2008 during sessions for the group's final album.
The Antlers' 2009 album Hospice was the kind of feat no one would want to duplicate: It was audaciously beautiful and belovedby critics, but its wrenching songs reflect and expound upon highly specific personal losses for singer-guitarist Peter Silberman.
