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.
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.
Two decades after his toy shop-Bowie breakthrough Streethawk: A Seduction, Dan Bejar remains as protean, ambitious and gloriously distracted as his foundational hero. Over the course of the last twenty.
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.
It's Superb Owl weekend, so I am going to indulge myself a bit with a niche post and piggy back off of Erik's NFL Hall Of Fame musings. It's a.
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.
