
Author: Elizabeth Nelson

Hello! In case you missed it, over at Pitchfork I had the pleasure of revisiting Graham Parker’s 1979 masterpiece Squeezing Out Sparks. Check it out if this sounds like your cuppa Earl Grey. Alo
Reasons to be cheerful, reasons to be sad. Today would have been the 80th birthday of the astonishingly brilliant, visionary artist and graphic designer Barney Bubbles. Bubbles — who was born Co

It’s been twenty-five years, give or take, that the world has enjoyed the highly specific miracle of the Drive-By Truckers and no one is more shocked than them. Their remarkable new LP Welcome 2
Let me tell you a story about three renegades and the pact they made eighteen years ago to improve the world. When David Watkins, Robert Farley and Scott Lemieux banded together to create this blog, t

¡Hola! Over at Stereogum, I tried my hand at ranking Yo La Tengo’s studio albums. Features where you’re supposed to rank LPs are always a bit silly, but I enjoyed writing this career over
The brilliant New York-based singer/songwriter Jennifer O’Connor has been authoring tremendous albums of hope and longing for more than twenty years. Her newest release Born at the Disco is a re

Well, we haven’t done one of these for a while, and being in need of distraction from the news and locked in one of my periodic bouts of pathological procrastination (sorry editors! sorry everyb
Happening now at The Southwest Review: an in-depth conversation I had with historian and novelist Robert McCrum about P.G. Wodehouse’s World War II apostasy. Plus a premiere of a new song from m
- Brown-Brown Alliance
- LGM Film Club, Part 341: Johnny Cash as John Brown
- Images from American History, Part 22
- Just repeatedly asking the same questions on page A1
- Hard Out There for the Union Busting Scumbags
- LGM Podcast: The Hunt for the Peggy C
- Protect the Tongass
- College Board Names Ron DeSantis Its Arbiter of Acceptable Content
- Tom Brady and work as vocation
- DeSantis’s hired goons complete takeover of once legitimate university