¡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 overview of one of my fave ever groups! A great excuse to...
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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.
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 a while, and being in need of distraction from the news and locked in one...
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.
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 of the late, great artist the song pays tribute to! Check it out if this...
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.
In case you missed it! I'm so proud to share my profile on Lowell George from Oxford American's new Southern Music Issue. Lowell is beyond a paradox and writing about.
As a longtime admirer of the critic, literature professor and decorated poet Joshua Clover, I was delighted to recently be a part of a panel discussion regarding his new book-length treatise on Jonathan Richman's world historic classic "Roadrunner." Clover's book is the first in a...
In case you missed it, over at Pitchfork I wrote about the new vinyl reissue of John Prine's wonderful 2005 LP Fair & Square. He was the funniest, most humane.
Lawyers Guns & Money favorites the Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera turned twenty (20!) on 9/11/2021. Patterson Hood's account of the crazy, inspired thought process behind this novelistic masterpiece is.