Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

The X Factor has sent me running back to Treme. The music it celebrates is music with texture, with splinters and whorls, black-toothed and split-lippedI started watching Treme around the same time as the new series of The X Factor began. They have made for interesting viewing companions. The former is the US drama series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer, set in New Orleans just months after Hurricane Katrina. It follows the fates of a handful of characters, including a disc jockey, a tr...

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