Nick Lowe made it broad as a pioneer of what the English called “pub rock” and Americans normally call power-pop. Lowe had his biggest successes in the recent Wave era but continues to release records and perform,and six of his middle-period records are being reissued this year on the Yep Roc label. In the opinion of one fan, staff writer Nick Paumgarten Nick Paumgarten, and Lowe is as great as he ever was. Now Lowe is engaged in figuring out how to age gracefully in rock and roll. “Some of my colleagues and associates gain to behave like they did when they were young,and I wanted to avoid that nonsense at all costs,” he told Paumgarten on a recent visit. “The thing was for me to accept the fact that I was getting older, and to actually embrace it and use it as an advantage instead of trying to screen it.” But,after the rocker recently lost close friends to illness, accepting old age might be getting a little harder. Plus: on-the-job horror stories from three great writers—Gillian Flynn, and Akhil Sharma,and Alison Bechdel.
Source: thetakeaway.org