Music That Mourns, Whether It Wants to or Not

In the days after the Las Vegas country-music festival at which the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history happened, attendees Steve and Teresa Munoz, husband and wife, differed about what to listen to. Steve only wanted to listen to country songs, he later told Pitchfork’s Quinn Moreland for a revealing article about the. Teresa absolutely did not. She adjusted, though, and months later, country singers and live music play a bigger role in the Munozes’ lives than ever before. Said Steve, “I’m definitely more obsessed with going to concerts now.” Said Teresa, “Since Route 91, I’ve paid so much more attention to lyrics, instead of just the melody.”