This book is one of the many things we discuss. Last week, I sat down with Scott and Robert for a freewheeling conversation focused largely on all things Dylan, at least of recent vintage. This included talking about the 27 disc box set of Bob...
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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.
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—its 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 am both creator and victim. This is very normal for me, procrastination being a...
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.
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 born Colin Fulcher in the London suburb of Whitten, Middlesex -- attended the art school...
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.
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 empathy. Check it out! Nothing is off on Tapestry. Everything clicks. Fundamentally, King is a...
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,.
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.