Zac Pennington
Introducing: Popular Music’s “Sad Songs”
Zac Pennington premieres a track, and talk the “Gena Rowlands routine.”
Introducing: “Hideout”
A song premiere and breakup letter from Comedienne, or the artist formerly known as Parenthetical Girls.
Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks the Weeknd’s Kiss Land
“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...
Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks Van Dyke Parks’ Songs Cycled
Opinions are fickle things. What appeals to the pleasure centers at first blush doesn’t always maintain stamina. Likewise, the longer it takes for...
Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks Taylor Swift’s Red
The first heated argument I had on the topic of Taylor Swift began in the latter months of 2009. These were heated times — post-Kanye, after...




