This edition of ON the Beat was originally emailed to subscribers on January 5, 2023. To receive Josef Woodard’s music newsletter in your inbox each Thursday, sign up at independent.com/newsletters.
A common symptom felt by cultural addicts, professional and otherwise — sometimes known as “listomania” — may be a variation on SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and stubborn, calendar-driven habit. Come the shift of the calendar, we look back with fondness and disappointments at what has come in the past 12 months, as a kind of overview and a clearing of the deck before the next year’s arts harvest. In the last ON the Beat column ( here ), we surveyed live music’s happy returns in 2022.
Moving onto other media, here are further observations from the Top Tenning salon.
Art in Our More Than Fair Town
