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    Life After the Apple

    Oct 02, 2021 4 minutes
    —TOM MOON

    Drummer, composer, and bandleader Nate Smith is reliving the mid-pandemic moment when he realized his life had to change. He’d been traveling frequently, recording in L.A. and elsewhere, while paying premium rent on a New York studio apartment. “Even during COVID, I was in motion a lot, and one time I looked at my calendar and realized I was coming back to New York to dump my suitcase and do laundry. I was just changing clothes in New York.”.

    Smith’s lease was up. Expiring along with it was his faith in New York as a place to thrive doing creative work. He looked around at the quickening pace of the creative exodus and decided it was time to move. He’s still adjusting

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