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.
¡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.
Jennifer O'Connor (photo by Amy Bezunartea) 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.
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.
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.
Happening now at The LA Review of Books: a video premiere for my band The Paranoid Style's new single “Barney Bubbles!” Plus a great talk with Paul Gorman, the curator.
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.
