Cotton Mather’s Robert Harrison gets brownie points for ambition. Death Of The Cool (The Star Apple Kingdom) comprises 11 of the 64 songs he’s been writing in an extended fit of creativity inspired by the I Ching, the ancient Chinese divination text—one tune per hexagram (or reading). Seriously. Harrison will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.
Whit Williams: Words in new Cotton Mather songs that are bound to resonate with Joe Sixpack and Jane Winecooler:
at·ta·ché
en·sconced
so·bri·quet
