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In the most recent issue of Paste , I contributed a few blurbs to their 50 Greatest Living Directors feature. Got to re-watch the work of T...

Pointer Sisters: "Automatic" Guilty pleasure of the moment (along with Greg Kihn Band's "Jeopardy" and Dolly Par...

Very buried in tapes to be transcribed. Stacked next to the machine right now are my recent chats with: High Places DJ Harvey Moon Duo ...

"We believe in the importance of what we have just said or written, if for no other reason than that it is impossible to take back the ...

Since Drag City has finally let my captive family go free, I can now state on the internet that I listened to the new Joanna Newsom record a...

Through a confluence of events (like being out of holiday debt), I've had some sweet art pieces enter the house recently. The first is t...

  "Was it something I said?" For some reason, a warning appeared in my email that a two year-old beta blog post had "offendi...

Discophiles, blonde models, and cokeheads, unite! Saturday evening, I'll be chatting with former Voice critic and New Yorker writer Vin...

So I recently had a feature on Yeasayer appear on the magazine racks, only to realize that Anand Wilder and Ira Wolf Tuton roles were swappe...

As WNYU's Beats in Space program neared its 500th episode, I got the chance to hang out with Tim Sweeney a few nights, once when Neuro...

"In America, hardly anybody goes walking. They drive around in cars or they sit outside the house in rocking chairs. If you go walking ...

Since I found myself within spitting distance of the Museum of Creation and Earth History in San Diego the weekend that the Chargers lost ...

Rough couple of days all around: Robert Charles Guidry a/k/a Bobby Charles (February 21, 1938 – January 14, 2010) Jimmy Lee Lindsey J...

I got smashed in the head by one of these construction barricade walls while walking home on Friday afternoon. Ambulance ride, emergency r...

Things I'm already enjoying in the new decade: Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté: Ali and Toumani Beach House: Teen Dream Linds...

Didn't there used to be automated emails sending your Pazz & Jop ballot back your way? Which was helpful, as I almost instantly for...

This fall, I went out west to have some doughnuts and a Styrofoam cup of Orange Bang and hang with Andy Hernandez, a/k/a Coati Mundi, the m...

This week, in celebration of the 500th broadcast of New York underground dance music radio program  Beats in Space , I wrote a feature abou...

Thankfully, I've skipped out on having to quantify and qualify the last ten years of my listening life in the last month or so. Yet in ...

Our Netflix the other night delivered both Kelly Reichardt's ruminative 2006 film Old Joy and Lynn Shelton's more recent and mumb...