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Tantalizing overreach, the catchiest hooks this side of #murraystreet , and a heaping helping of “Kim Power” led to one of Sonic Youth’s more underplayed and underrated works: #WashingMachine .
I was and am honored to be able to wo

Hey so it’s kinda late and whatnot but who cares? Algorithms be damned!
This piece ties Death In Vegas’ debut to the sci-fi classic The Island of Doctor Moreau. If that in itself doesn’t make you wanna read it, I honestly don’

Quadrennium is a funny word.
Like the four years we’ve just gone through as a culture, it feels like a much longer time than that. Luckily, Anne from @domesticconjecture and I spent a solid percentage of that time thinking about Frank Ocean&rsq

I wrote a little thing for the great people over at @secretmeetingblog . I’m calling it an “emotional retrospective”; it seems like the only way to engage with the moment surrounding #gotellfiretothemountain ‘s release is by r

On Mellow Gold and its significance in 90s culture. Decades after Dylan’s audience thought he’d sold out, Beck joked at doing the same on his de facto debut. Was he trying to be the new Dylan, only supplanting irony for confrontation? You

“Old world craftsmanship” is a term that has largely fallen out of favor, but it’s what I hear (in a way) when I listen to @anothersky . The melodies fall just so, like tiny Rube Goldberg machines delivering light and warmth to the

So happy I pulled the trigger on @sacredbones ‘ recent pressing of the score from @parasitemovie . The art is insane and the gold vinyl is almost too rad to describe. Can’t wait to spin this while beating my head against “metaphoric

20+ years after I bought the CD version of this in smalltown Kansas knowing nothing more than that I thought the title and cover were dope as hell, I finally have my own OG copy on wax. It sounds absolutely frickin’ ACE and will get a lot of pl

The question of how we write at the functional level is a key to our art and our individual approach. Do you lock into silence or open up to influence? There’s no wrong way to do it, but there are as many methods as there are authors.

So...wh

What ain’t exactly a preview, but ain’t exactly a review? That’s right, friends, it’s another edition of the #thirstyfirsty where I give my semi-formed thoughts an undeserved platform and (perhaps) you take them in for just wh

An amazing soundtrack that has never been pressed on vinyl despite being a perfect addition to almost any collection?! The hell you say!!
I’ve loved this movie since it was released, the soundtrack is a big part of why it works. For your &lsqu

I was SO irrationally afraid of my bike. I thought (for no reason really) that the balance could be a problem after surgery. I worried about my stamina, which is still in-process (but improving!). I worried what would happen if I wrecked and hit my h

I resurrected and reconfigured an older piece on a modern favorite. #tobiasjessojr arrived with one of the more accomplished #singersongwriter debut LPs of the past ten years before removing himself from the performing game in order to write for othe

In the spirit of an old jazz record, #singintomymouth finds #bandofhorses ‘s Ben Bridwell and #ironandwine ‘s Sam Beam uniting to recreate favorite songs from times gone by. Along the way they find ways to pacify the Talking Heads and giv

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