June 27, 2009

Some Things I've Written:

ALARM Magazine

Broken Social Scene Dazzle Chicago

Donkey by CSS

Eyes at Half Mast by Talkdemonic

The Fantomas Melvins Big Band: Live from London 2006

Hercules and Love Affair

Interview: Calexico Discusses Beautiful New LP Carried to Dust

Miami Ice by Icy Demons

Migration by Takka Takka

Pitchfork Music Festival

The Watson Twins: A Melting Pot of Sounds on New LP


Beyond Race Magazine

Body Language Vol. 7 by Matthew Dear

Drone, Drugs and Harmony by I Love You

 

Dossier blog

Ay Ay Ay by Matias Aguayo

I Love Hot Dogs


Newcity

Review: Diverging Matters” at Finestra Art Space

Review: Barbara Wakefield at Dubhe Carreno

Review: “The Telephone Show” at Barbara & Barbara Gallery

Review: “Kay Rosen” at Gallery 400


The New York Times

I took a day off life to see the world in a better way


Sadie Magazine

The Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century


This Recording

Familiar Contortions (on New York No Wave)

More Talented Than Jane Birkin (on Francoise Hardy)

Reading Ishiguro in Chicago (on Kazuo Ishiguro)

So Summer (On summer songs)

A Spike Lee Grew in BK (on Do the Right Thing)

A Sound Once Forgotten (On nu disco)

The Top 20 Albums of 2008


TimeOut Chicago

A cure for the summertime group show blues?

“Feminist Interrogations” asks tough questions

Outside the MCA, Peace Salon gave customers a buzz


VenusZine

Band of the Month: Frauke

Band of the Month: Her Girl Friday

Beach House shows Chicago a “lovelier” evening

Box of Bees by The Arch Cupcake

Buzz kill

Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles

Danielia Cotton emerges as the tremendous Rare Child for a stale scene

Genre clashing is the standard for Brazil’s Telepathique

Glamorous punks The Long Blondes won’t “drive you home”

Holy Hail makes music to reflect on in a “post-Obama” world

Hospice by The Antlers

It’s OK to be a little confused by Free Blood

Leader of the pack

LP by Discovery

Miike Snow by Miike Snow

No “broken hearts” here

No “small” feat

Post-Nothing by Japandroids

A pre-Thanksgiving “Bamboo bangaa”

Quisqueya Henriquez

Reader of the Week: artist Anna Christina Trotter

Reader of the Week: musician Josie Outlaw of Philadelphia

Satellite Party: A party built in space

Shattered glass

A stormy dance party welcomes Australia’s Cut Copy

Stuck on Repeat EP by Little Boots

Super Animal Brothers III by EAR PWR

Sustainable style

Sydney-based techno-pop duo the Presets knows how to please “my people”

Three-dimensional design

Troubled, Shaken, Etc. by Sian Alice Group

Unconventional comfort

Yelle: The feisty French electro-pop singer tells it like it is