When Kurt recently interviewed Bill Flanagan about his novel, Evening’s Empire, we presented a challenge to listeners: write music to fit the lyrics of “He’s At War” — a horrible song by Flanagan’s fictional character Simon Potts. The entries are posted on YouTube, and Flanagan returns to discuss them and pick a winner.
Oh, say can you compose a new anthem? Well, the jury’s still out on that. A few weeks ago we began our listener challenge to create a new national anthem with the hopes that people would write new lyrics and music for song that could take the place of the Star Spangled Banner. With so […]