Tobias Carroll interview
Wherein I interview Tobias Carroll for the Collapsar.
Razorcake podcast #422
Featuring music by the Proletariat, Bad Leg, Savak, Mary and the Immaculate Rejections and a ton more.
Click here.
Two new reviews
I reviewed D. Foy's "Patricide" for Chicago Review of Books.
Also, here's a review of Louie Cronin's "Everyone Loves You Back" for Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
90's reclamation project #2: The Warmers
I did some writing on Amy Farina's drumming for the Warmers on The Collapsar.
Interview w/Sam McPheeters
I interviewed Sam about his new book 'Exploded View' here.
Review: "Manor Threat" by Ben Snakepit
Here's a review of Ben Snakepit's new "Manor Threat" anthology for Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
Razorcake podcast #416
Here's my third podcast for Razorcake, featuring new music by Dr. Identity, G.L.O.S.S., Bad Leg, Thick Tang, the Ergs! and more.
Review, "A Paper Son" by Jason Buchholz
I review Jason Buchholz's debut novel "A Paper Son" for Cabildo Quarterly.
http://cabildoquarterly.tumblr.com/post/149088963945/book-review-a-paper-son-by-jason-buchholz
Flipping Roger Clemens the bird.
A sordid tale of corporate seats and flat knuckleballs is now available in the new issue of Zisk.
Razorcake podcast #408.
Click here for the newest installment of the Razorcake podcast, featuring tons of new music.
RS 500: "Disintegration"
Click here for a piece on the Cure's 1989 album I wrote for RS 500.
RS 500: "Wild Gift"
Here's a piece I wrote on X's second album for the RS 500.
Queens: Topos 5/13/16 with Jes Skolnik, Brendan Kiernan, Mike Faloon
Get psyched!
Razorcake podcast #402.
Here's my first podcast for Razorcake, featuring all sorts of East Coast hegemony. Dig it!
PunkHistory.org – Punk’s not dead – it’s history
I’m psyched to be on this panel with Sara Marcus, Byron Coley, Tanya Pearson and a bunch of other talented folks. April 8th!
Two new “Swing State” reviews
Protomartyr — The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art)
Let’s face it: the industry expectation is that rock music is for, by, and about young’uns. Protomartyr bucks these expectations. Singer Joe Casey is dealing with the unsexy reality of losing parents, the long look down the decline slope of what comes after age 40. Sonic precedents abound: it’s easy to hear traces of the Fall, Joy Division, Girls Against Boys, but The Agent Intellect is not retro. Rather, the record exists in and ruminates on the now, be it under the well-heeled dystopian umbrella of technology, or, alternately, the crushing mundanity of loss. The weight of this jumbled present is overwhelming, occasionally contradictory and senseless. Rather than back down from the precipice of decline and confusion, Protomartyr has reported the situation as they see it in The Agent Intellect, an uncomfortable, honest and ultimately excellent record.
On the new Protomartyr record.