As part of The Ringer's coverage of the music of 1999, I made the case for Wilco's surpassingly peculiar mood storm Summerteeth as the best album released that year. Check it out when you have a chance! In the late 1990s, a vogue for ’60s...
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Hellos and goodbyes! Over at Oxford American, I ponder The Who's 1982 Farewell Concert and debut the title track from my band, the Paranoid Style's new LP A Goddamn Impossible.
The golf champion trophy. Over at The Ringer, I reflected on Jean Van de Velde's collapse on the 72nd hole of the 1999 Open Championship. Recommended for golf fans or.
Billboard Magazine's 1985 Year in Music & Video As part of The Ringer's coverage of Season 3 of Stranger Things, I wrote about the exceedingly fine year in popular music that was 1985, and the healthy and diverse ecosystem that made it possible. Check it...
Over at The Southwest Review I've submitted to a thorough interrogation by the great novelist Owen King, and also premiered a new Paranoid Style track entitled "Turpitude"! Anyone who wants.
Timothy Bracy, reporting from the Sports Desk of The Paranoid Style: Let me tell you how I typically watch the Nationals. I do not watch on TV, because I like.
Over at The Ringer I wrote about the strange and timeless charm of the Rolling Thunder Revue and Bob Dylan becoming the carny he was always meant to be! Check it out in advance of the new Scorsese documentary. The compelling mythos and famous optics...
Let’s discuss The Dirty South, the fifth record by the unaccountably brilliant American institution known as the Drive-By Truckers, which turns fifteen (15!) this summer. The Dirty South is an.
Let’s discuss Lawyers, Guns & Money, whose remarkable blog turns fifteen (15!) this weekend. Now look folks: I'm the new girl and while my day-to-day trade is education and public.
In the third installment of my Oxford American Column, "A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life" I wrote all about the Meat Puppets and the 1985 SST Records tour. I also debut a new Paranoid Style song - a tribute to They Might Be Giants done...
Over at the Ringer, I wrote about the wonderful and hilarious What We Do in the Shadows, a show about vampires on the FX network. It's also about the horrors.
By nearly any metric, the litigator-turned-venture-capitalist Bruce Gibney counts as one of the clear-cut winners to emerge from the terrifying corporate-tech duopoly of the past three decades. An early investor.