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. Check it out if this seems like your cup of watery domestic: Likely because Westerberg...
Author: Elizabeth Nelson
As I cast my Monday evening gaze all around I can see that I am once again drowning in unmet deadlines, bobbing insensibly in a riptide of obligations of which.
Strike up the music, the band has begun! It's LG&M Fundraising Day. A lot of people ask me: Elizabeth, do you think LG&M Fundraising Day should be a federal holiday?.
I mean, I get it. Ed Sheeran is pretty much like Marmite -- you either love him or hate him. Anyway, over at the Washington Post, I wrote about the current lawsuit against him and the crucial need to protect songwriters from predatory litigation: "If...
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.
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.
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 Colin Fulcher in the London suburb of Whitten, Middlesex -- attended the art school...
A very few songwriters have ever as fully inhabited the consciousness of the American mind quite like Merle Haggard. The endless compassion and simmering anger of his greatest songs trace.
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.
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, they were not scions of publishing titans of the Hearst-Pulitzer...
Hello! Got a couple news items for ya, in case you missed them: Over at the New York Times Magazine I wrote about HBO’s highly entertaining “Winning Time,” the ethical.
¡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.