Blooming: A CMJ Roundup
The New York CMJ Music Marathon is run by, you guess it, CMJ: a heavy-hitting online and print publication that…
Category: Reviewed
The Occult Magic of Purity Ring’s Shrines
I left the recent Purity Ring concert with two predominant thoughts. One, that magic might actually be real, but real…
Horror’s Next Step
I understand I am late to the game in voicing my opinions about The Cabin in the Woods. The movie…
Free From Tiny Screens: Jack White
Removing light-blue sheets from various instruments onstage, each roadie at the Jack White concert sported suspenders, a blue tie, and…
Bob Dylan’s Hellfire and Brimstone Storm
Old. Irrelevant. Washed up. Out of touch. Creatively dead. Anyone who has followed Bob Dylan's career over the past half-century…
Breaking the Chains of Pop: The Jesus and Mary Chain live at the 9:30 Club
“Oh, that’s just my hearing aid,” Jim Reid slurred in response to the shrill attack of feedback that emanated from…
INSIDE THE JEWELRY BOX: Kristina Marie Darling’s “Melancholia (An Essay)”
“To wake from a dream—to begin a series of portraits instead” ~ Kristina Marie…
Review Review: Bloc Party’s Four
The personal pronoun "I" appears a dozen times in the review in reference to me (it also appears several times…
Review: Mounting Evidence by Dr. Paul Rea
“Although this rendering reflects serious sleuthing, what you’ll find here is less a research treatise than a detective mystery in…
Show Review: Okkervil River at the Jefferson
I am inclined to tell you these things largely because my sangria-addled mind was almost totally unable to recognize and/or…