Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.
Rob SheffieldWhen we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
Rob SheffieldI realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.
Rob SheffieldMorrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
Rob Sheffield