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18 Books to Read at/in the Water in 2018

BYT at largeJuly 12, 2018

Grow your mind while you destroy your skin ...

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Your Best July

BYT at largeJuly 2, 2018

Your best month of explosions ...

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DREAM JOB: Tamar Adler, Author of “An Everlasting Meal” and “Something Old, Something New”

Megan BurnsJune 7, 2018

How the author went from being an editor at Harper's Magazine to pursuing her passion for food full time....

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2018 Book Expo: What Books Are We Most Looking Forward To In The Coming Months

Svetlana LegeticJune 5, 2018

Tales of love, loss, laughter, murder and adventure. A little something for everyone...

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BYT Interviews: Jay & Mark Duplass

Kaylee Dugan and Jenn TisdaleMay 8, 2018

Jay is dead!...

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BYT Interviews: Rob Lowe

Jenn TisdaleMay 4, 2018

If Rob Lowe was an ice cream flavor he would NOT be Pralines & Dick...

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BYT Weekly: What We Read, Thought, Felt

Matt ByrneApril 13, 2018

A chance for boys to look inside The Wing and the definitive Rock, Paper, Scissors power ranking ...

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BYT Weekly: What We Read, Thought, Felt

Megan BurnsApril 6, 2018

This week we read about how racists are taking over paganism, and zombie raccoons are taking over an Ohio town....

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Your Best April

BYT at largeMarch 30, 2018

A month of fools, baseball, rain and 2001 ...

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Spoken Words with Split This Rock’s Joseph Green

Diana MetzgerMarch 27, 2018

"Art is one of the best ways of telling a story. It's super important. It is the food for our intellectual discourse."...

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BYT Weekly: What We Read, Thought, Felt

Brandon WetherbeeMarch 16, 2018

There are no good video game movies but there are good Roxane Gay comic books ...

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A Study in Intimacy: Sally Mann @ National Gallery of Art

Svetlana LegeticMarch 5, 2018

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BYT Weekly: What We Read, Thought, Felt

Marissa RubensteinMarch 2, 2018

You've made it! You survived the week! Here's what to take with you......

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Your Best March

BYT at largeMarch 1, 2018

31+ ways to avoid lousy Smarch weather ...

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“Dumb Blonde” Honored by Library of Congress

Brandon Wetherbee and Nicholas KarlinFebruary 27, 2018

“We have to love the differences.”...

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Your Best February

BYT at largeFebruary 1, 2018

The following contains 28+ picks to have your best February....

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ver a two-decade career, Snow Patrol has carved out a unique place for themselves. Since their 1998 debut, Songs for Polarbears, which Pitchfork hailed as “an impressive piece of work,” their melancholy anthems of heartbreak and separation have mended hearts, and the band has racked up an impressive number of critical and commercial accolades, including 15 million global album sales, 1 billion global track streams, 5 UK Platinum Albums, and are Grammy and Mercury Music Prize nominated. They emerged as heartsore musical prophets in the shadow of grunge and shallow pop, striking a chord in the minds, memories and hearts of listeners over six groundbreaking, confessional albums.

Eyes Open, released in 2006, was the biggest-selling album in the UK that year; they went on to headline such festivals as the prestigious T in the Park. But after their Fallen Empires tour ended in 2012, band members — guitarist, vocalist Gary Lightbody, guitarists Johnny McDaid and Nathan Connolly, bassist Paul Wilson, and drummer Jonny Quinn — decided to stop for a while.

“We were exhausted at the end of the tour,” says Lightbody. “We went from album to tour, album to tour for 10 years.

We needed to take a break. And it just kind of kept extending. It wasn’t that we planned to take six years off by any means.

“We all started living our own lives and realizing that we actually had lives outside of the band, a band that we still had an awful lot of fondness for and that we did want to come back to, I just perhaps needed more time than I first thought,” explains Lightbody.

“I do think the rest of the band would have been ready to record at any point over the last five years. But they never showed frustration or anger. Never did they say, ‘Hurry up and write the songs, mate.’”

In the interim, Quinn started a family and began putting in more

Sebastian in 2014). Connolly formed and fronted Little Matador, the band he started with a number of other prominent Irish and American musicians, including Dave Magee from Lafaro and Gavin Fox from Idlewild. Wilson signed on as the touring guitarist in Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mendel’s band Lieutenant, and produced a number of bands, including L.A. newcomers Broken Arrow. McDaid wrote songs and produced such diverse artists as Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran and Pink, and executive-produced Kodaline’s third album, due out this year.

Lightbody put the finishing touches on The Ghost of the Mountain, the second album by his Tired Pony side project with members of Belle and Sebastian, R.E.M, Reindeer Section and Fresh Young Fellows. He then moved to Los Angeles and began writing songs for movies (including “This Is How You Walk On” for 2017’s Gifted), and doing a number of high-profile co-writes with Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and One Direction. Songs that weren’t pulled from his own psyche were less painful to craft, and went a long way into healing what he considered to be writer’s block.

And at his website (www.garylightbody.com) he posted 15 cover versions of favorite songs by the likes of Ryan Adams, Bon Iver, Tom Waits and Glen Campbell.

But something else unexpectedly stimulated his writing even more. Two years ago he quit drinking. “Drinking was the only place I could hide from myself and if I was drunk I wasn’t depressed, just the next day but that could be remedied with more drink.” But he didn’t want that anymore.

“I’d been writing songs for years about love, been down that road so many times before: love, the end of love, the beginning of love. Mostly the end of love, to be honest. And I just knew that this album had to be something different. I hadn’t been in a relationship for some time and had no material to draw on. I had to look both deeper inside myself and out into the wider world around me and both seemed to be in chaos.”

Which is what he did for Snow Patrol’s seventh album. Titled Wildness, it taps into something raw and primitive.