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...
80s music
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.
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 of his own legend. In his twelve-year recording career EC had rendered classic songs at...
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.