Last Friday, Rhino Records re-issued the Replacements' 1984 classic Let It Be as a deluxe box set—a remaster of the original LP, a disc of alternate takes and a live show from the Cubby Bear in Chicago. It's a pretty glorious package. And I wrote...
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Hey, in case you missed it, I’m so thrilled to have written the liner notes for Rhino’s new reissue of the Replacements' all-time classic Let It Be. It’s an LP.
Photo by Deborah Feingold Hi friends! In case you missed it, I was thrilled to write about one of my all time fave records for my first New Yorker piece..
Sometimes, when I can't face my deadlines, I have this conversation with myself: "Hey Beth, that review/feature/cultural meditation isn’t going to write itself. Every minute that ticks by is one more minute where you elect to marinate in decadent mediocrity. How many times have you...
Barney Bubbles' Imperial Bedroom cover art as interpreted by Hamell on Trial (and featured in the Paranoid Style's hit video "Barney Bubbles." Well, we haven't done one of these for.
Ari Surdoval’s debut novel is a teenage fever dream of stunted ambition and enduring hope. Following the escapades of a group of adolescents in New England raised under the storm.
I was hoping to avoid this, but I guess in my heart I knew it would probably have to happen. And anyway, it was the least I could do for the future of the country. But, at the same time, when you possess a magic...
In case you missed it, I wrote about the rad new reissue of the Replacements' Pleased To Meet Me over at Pitchfork, a punk record infused with producer Jim Dickinson's.
Over at The Ringer I wrote about the fortieth anniversary of Elvis Costello's Get Happy!!, a remarkable record released in the aftermath of a humiliating controversy that nearly cratered his.
Over at The Ringer, I wrote about the 35th anniversary of The Talking Heads' amazing concert film Stop Making Sense and the ways in which David Byrne and Jonathan Demme's overlapping, visionary sensibilities helped to explain America in the weird 1980s. Shot for shot, pound...
Over at The Ringer my buddy Adam Nayman and I got deep into the weeds and chose our twelve favorite tracks from the new sixty song Replacements' box set Dead.
“turning little liars into heroes, it’s what they’ve always done:” The Mekons Rock ‘n’ Roll turns 30
Over at The Ringer, I wrote about the 30th anniversary of The Mekons Rock 'N' Roll, a record which utterly blew my mind the first time I heard it many.