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When I worked at Pitchfork (well...define "work" where there's no pay), I was odd man out when it came to hyping The Arcade...

Fun games we played while at Kutsher's Country Club for ATP: Watch Nick Cave Engaged in Normal Activity : eat breakfast, play arcade g...

  Pic from the way sweet Sam Beam-Sufjan-Akron/Family chorale. My ATP coverage wrap-up for Spin , touching on the Flaming Lips' glowing ...

  Tomorrow, I'll be back at the Dirty Dancing meets The Shining resort that is Kutcher's Country Club for another round of the ATP...

Capping an inadvertent week of interviews, I conducted my second interview with DJ Harvey for Resident Advisor , in anticipation of the man...

Twice this year, I've had massive, highly-anticipated interviews fall-through. The first was with Christian Fennesz , slated to run in T...

A minute or so ago, I conducted an interview with obscure/ obscured British folk guitarist Wizz Jones , right as many of his contemporaries ...

Interviewing Jane Birkin tomorrow morning. As one might imagine, I'm really looking forward to it, even if I can't find a translatio...

In the August issue of SPIN, I contributed a few entries to their feature, "100 Greatest Bands You've (Probably) Never Heard....

Tonight, I'm filling in for my friend Gerald (Other Music) at Stanton Public in the LES, which should be fun. And free. And crispy cool...

Generally, I distance myself from my early internet writings (especially for Pitchfork with their "go steal the record off of Soulseek ...

BTDubya, on Saturday night I'll be DJing a stack o' sweet tracks for the Animal Collective After-Party at The Bell House starting ...

Part Two of my Idjuts interview, stemming from my Skype chat with them and Dimitri From Paris that ran as "Paradise Garage Regained...

2009 has been a fairly resplendent and wondrous year. Somewhere in my Top 100 greatest moments of the year thus far is the fact that I was a...

David Byrne: Bicycle Diaries A few years earlier I had been reminded that the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, was a hab...

José Donoso: The Obscene Bird of Night "Boy was to grow up believing that things came into being as his eyes discovered them and died w...

I haven't had health care in the 21st century. Instead, I have the God-given, American-brand freedom to practice alternative medicine te...

The September Issue directed by R.J. Cutler Made by the same folks that did The War Room , a shot of the interior of Vogue 's offices as...

As seen in the New York Times ! Just don't be intimidated by the quote that Treehouse is for "serious technoheads" as --simply...

Been buying up heaps of tunes while out on the road, so thought I'd laundry-list a few recent favorites: Talking Heads: Speaking in Tong...