We Have an Issue: Check It Out
Cover by Zeke Barbaro / Getty Images. Photos courtesy of the artists. In late March, mere weeks into the pandemic that we've carried into another year, Music Editor Raoul Hernandez launched a Q&A series with local musicians. He called it Checking In, a name that carried special resonance for him. It was directly inspired by the language we were all using in those disorienting first days of COVID-19, when the days were full of worried calls and texts and emails: I just wanted to check in. "I've always viewed journalism as social work," he told me on Monday, as we hung around...