music commentary

I've been waiting for this album for quite some time. The first Mount Kimbie album, 2010's Crooks & Lovers, made quite an impression...

When I was in ninth grade, I had a pink lava lamp set up in my closet that illuminated the small walls with curvy color and atmosphere. The nearly...

I remember the spring I turned 18, when the universe seemed to be opening up to let me in, and, at the same time, making sure I knew I couldn’t go...

Not even halfway through the first song, and a dense wave of nostalgia runs down my spine. Oh Tricky, how you remind me of being a bitter backwoods...

I have a thought in my head that I wrap around myself like a warm blanket whenever I am completely overwhelmed. No matter how bad things get, if...

This isn't my first review of a CocoRosie record. I have sat alone with my best headphones and thought. Just like this. And I have choreographed...

The UK at the end of the '90s was an awful time for music. Brit-pop had died — some would argue the death was deserved — at some point during 1997...

I’m on the B41 bus cruising north on Flatbush Avenue through Brooklyn towards my homestead. (Or am I really headed to Peppa’s Jerk Chicken?)

"Ladies Love Cool James" was ill as hell when he popped out the couch in full couch camo in Toys, the movie that predicted drones like 20...

In the March of my 23rd year, I was laid up at my parents' house in southeast Texas, on a liquid diet consisting mostly of Vicodin. I couldn't...

It’s four o’clock in the afternoon and I’ve just arrived home from Daft Punk's offices in the heart of Hollywood, on La Brea near Sunset, where I...