For the second installment of my Oxford American column, "A Goddamn Impossible Way Of Life" I wrote about persona, pro wrestling, Neil Young, Bloomington, Indiana and the absolutely bonkers 1973 Elvis Presley network special Aloha From Hawaii. Check it out! Ultimately, the success of Aloha...
Author: Elizabeth Nelson
Over at the Ringer, the film critic (and my friend) Adam Nayman and I endeavored to explain what makes R.E.M.'s Reckoning such a timeless masterpiece, on the occasion of its.
Let’s discuss Learning to Crawl, the extraordinary third album by the Pretenders which was released thirty five (35!) years ago this year. To say that Learning to Crawl was brought.
Over at the Ringer, I wrote about the 30th anniversary of Say Anything... It's a tremendous movie which I feel has gotten even more interesting over time, brought to the screen by an auteur director whose career strikes me as rather mysterious. It is no...
Let’s discuss Gram Parsons’ Grievous Angel, arguably the single most towering achievement in the occasionally maligned genre of country-rock, which has in point of fact yielded some of the most.
In the first installment of my new Oxford American column "A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life", I reflected on my strange, early and pivotal exposure to the great 1983 Lou.
Let’s talk about Slow Train Coming, Bob Dylan’s late 70s embrace of gospel music, which turns forty (40!) years old this year. It remains the signature baffling moment in a six-decade career full of them. For certain fans, the cognitive dissonance between the firebrand, Beat-influenced,...
Let’s discuss Spike by Elvis Costello, another curious album in a formidable catalog which is experiencing its 30th anniversary. By 1989, Costello was understandably listing a bit beneath the weight.
Let’s talk about Don't Tell A Soul, The Replacements’ 1989 album which turns thirty (thirty!) this week. I was a little young to be hip to the ‘Mats at the.
On the occasion of the new Coen brothers movie, LGM is pleased to welcome back Elizabeth Nelson, frontwoman of the great band The Paranoid Style, to talk all things Coen with the critic Adam...