Hey friends. I had the fortunate luck of publishing a couple of things on the same day and wanted to share them here in one convenient location. The good folks at the Atlantic let me go long on Neil Young, the Ditch Trilogy and the...
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Hello! In case you missed it, over at Pitchfork, I published a long meditation on Bob Dylan's 'Desire' LP. A taste: He would never make another record like it鈥攊ts circumstances.
As I cast my Monday evening gaze all around I can see that I am once again drowning in unmet deadlines, bobbing insensibly in a riptide of obligations of which.
I mean, I get it. Ed Sheeran is pretty much like Marmite -- you either love him or hate him. Anyway, over at the Washington Post, I wrote about the current lawsuit against him and the crucial need to protect songwriters from predatory litigation: "If...
Hello! In case you missed it, over at Pitchfork I had the pleasure of revisiting Graham Parker's 1979 masterpiece Squeezing Out Sparks. Check it out if this sounds like your.
Reasons to be cheerful, reasons to be sad. Today would have been the 80th birthday of the astonishingly brilliant, visionary artist and graphic designer Barney Bubbles. Bubbles -- who was.
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 him proved hilarious and sad in equal measure. Check it out if that seems like...
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.
In case you missed it, over at The Ringer, I wrote about the 50th Anniversary of Carole King's Tapestry. One of my favorite albums and a towering landmark of radical.
The Oxford American's Music Issue is about to hit the shelves of whatever internet bookstore you buy your magazines from these days, and I have written a piece for it, which is now online! It's all about Charlie Daniels, he of the formidably weird life...
Over at The Ringer, I wrote about Guy Stevens, Federico Garcia Lorca and the fortieth anniversary of The Clash's 'London Calling', an album whose clear-eyed humanity is as generous and.
Over at Oxford American, I wrote about the sad and singular Marvin Gaye and his 1976 concert film shot in Amsterdam. A profoundly unusual genius who accomplished an extraordinary amount.