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Back in the heat of the New York summer (remember when it was hot out? Me neither), I spoke via Skype with August Darnell, a/k/a Kid Creo...

Today in the Village Voice is my feature on the return of Kid Creole and the Coconuts . Such a pleasure to chat with the man (my full tra...

In a friend's water closet reading stack sits a book by William Cooper . I don't believe I have seen that name since 1991, the...

Nothing says welcome back to school like this series of photos from an Iggy and the Stooges gig at a high school, circa 1970.

The last of my New Age interviews (finally) and one of the most insightful. Douglas Mcgowan is the force behind Yoga Records and a spate of...

The peg for the New Age story stems from a Zamfir sample that Animal Collective used for their Fall Be Kind EP from 2009. Yet their love an...

Researching New Age music and its reincarnation, it became imperative to chat with Greg Davis. (As introduction, I had to come clean on wri...

This fall, the RVNG Intl. label will release another entry in their highly ambitious FRKWYS series, this one documenting a studio meeting b...

As Oneohtrix Point Never, Daniel Lopatin has staked out a previously uninhabited/ inhospitable ground between bracing electronic noise and ...

This past Sunday, I wrote a large piece for the LA Times about what I dubbed "The New Age of New Age,"  the wave of new artists ...

So good that I have to re-post and re-crank this song for the 4th of July. And some 7 1/2 minutes into this is the official video for it...

"I'm a helluva guy. I think yer a lovely lady."

I just reviewed the recent reissue of Paul McCartney's half-baked (take that in many ways) solo album, McCartney II , for Resident Advi...

This is yet another Father's Day that I did not celebrate. And when Emusic pitched its writers on songs about fathers, I bristled at th...

Today I have a story on the off-Broadway musical based on The Shaggs.  My tone might be slightly acerbic, but in no uncertain terms, I have...

From the band formerly known as "Nails on a Chalkboard" (as well as Games), I did a brief chat with Ford & Lopatin's Joel...

It came out a minute ago, but since I finally received my copies over here, I should state that I wrote a brief set of notes about the alie...

Oh right, my profile  on Brooklyn's Mountains ran this week at the Voice. 

This week, I wrote a feature for the Wall Street Journal about The Story Collider , a variant on The Moth storytelling model that involves...