music commentary

When the idea of writing about this album came up, I have to admit I was only familiar with the addictive single “I Love It.” It was a guilty...

Not many people need to write songs anymore. Most of us (humans) just need some kind of validation of the self, and everyone knows that being in an...

I was sitting around my apartment the other day, minding my own business while listening to Earth, Wind & Fire, when suddenly, and seemingly from...

I will confess that it was in the spirit of a perverse gamble that I agreed to review this album; Talkhouse editor-in-chief Michael Azerrad asked...

Oneohtrix Point Never's previous album, 2011's Replica, was received with much critical acclaim, and this is the first from OPN...

I am listening to Siberia on a loud, bass-heavy boombox, and out of the corner of my eye I am watching for whales out of my family friend’s...

Full disclosure: I am partial to the female musician. I don’t qualify for “GBG” status — those individuals known to us in lady bands as the...

One of my earliest memories of diving into the deep end was the first evening I went to a "youth club." In a dusty church hall, under colored mood...

Party jams. Seems like a cop out on my part to write it. But this is a record about good times gone hairy + maybe a bit scary. The feeling of...

I talk about death in my comedy because it is something real, but also something that we don't necessarily like to talk about. That's why death...

There is something enormously satisfying about 2 Chainz, and his most recent offering, B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME is concomitantly released with...

“This ain’t nothin' to relate to.” Pop music has enough victims. I don’t mean to say that pop music itself is some kind of toxic malignancy — this...