On Music

“Strong Weekend: The primeval power trio adds an athletic sense of conflict to shoegaze” (9.8.10)
“Serene Velocity: Blues Control’s mobile minimalism” (10.28.09)
Remembering the Lemonheads (6.10.09)
“It Take Two: Windy & Carl’s ambient, celestial-waxing pairing isn’t as blissful as it seems” (5.27.09)
“Talk About the Passion: Slumberland Records turns twenty” (3.7.09)
“Another Blue World: Odawas score a synth-pop beauty with The Blue Depths” (2.17.09)
“Daughters of the Drone: Celebrating a different kind of singer-songwriter+2008 Top Ten” (12.17.08)
Suarasama: Fajar di Atwas Awan (11.26.08)
“Songs in Silver: Avocet’s experiments in resonance” (10.8.08)
“New Lost Blues: Going further at the first Frisco Freakout” (10.8.08)
“Bittersweet Symphonies: Erstwhile June Brides vocalist Phil Wilson yields Industrial Strength pop” (7.16.08)
“Sketches of Spain: Peter Walker communes with a new muse” (7.9.08)
“A Drone Supreme: Local duo Barn Owl soar on volume and tone” (6.25.08)
“Valet: Brave drones, bell chimes, distant drums, and Naked Acid” (6.11.08)
“New Foragers: Jack Carneal’s Yaala Yaala Records pipelines the sounds of Mali” (6.11.08)
“Weekend Warrior: M83′s Saturdays=Youth is a synth-laden paean to Molly Ringwald’s ’80s” (5.20.08)
The Microphones: The Glow, pt. 2 (reissue) 5.20.08
“Mothers of Invention: Brooklyn savant-rockers Dirty Projectors blaze a path less taken” (4.9.08)
“Reveille in Reverb: Baltimore duo Beach House show Devotion can be a dream (3.12.08)
“World of Echo: Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox takes a solo flight as Atlas Sound” (3.5.08)
“Elastic Band: Cryptacize dials up cosmic sing-alongs on Dig That Treasure“ (2.27.08)
“James Blackshaw: Young acoustic shaman in rare stateside appearance” (2.6.08)
Cat Power: Jukebox (1.16.08)
Baby Dee: Safe Inside the Day (1.16.08)
“The Stranger: Music’s mystery man Jandek comes to town” (1.9.08)
“Bold as Love: Entrance’s visionary death-letter blues” (1.2.08)

“Grievous Angel: Possessions, obsessions made visible” (12.12.07)
Vashti Bunyan: Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind (12.5.07)
“Do you believe in White Magic?: The witchy duo shines on with Dark Stars“ (11.21.07)
Goldie Winner: Wooden Shjips (11.7.07)
Thurston Moore: Trees Outside the Academy (10.24.07)
“More Sad Hits: Another dream date with Damon and Naomi” (10.10.07)
“Fresh Air: Life after Smog with Bill Callahan” (10.3.07)
“After the Goldrush: A New Series Excavates the Unknown John Phillips” (9.19.07)
Paula Frazer and Tarnation: Now It’s Time (7.25.07)
Greg Ashley: Painted Garden (7.4.07)
“The Hot Rock: Battles Blasts off with Mirrored“ (6.26.07)
“Wayfaring Stranger: Finding Marie Sioux” (6.20.07 )
“This Magic Moment: YACHT’s Jona Bechtholt believes in you, dancing” (5.1.07)
“Gary Higgins: Redheaded stranger” (5.1.07)
“Raising the BARR: The Life and times of multitasking multimedia maven Brendan Fowler” (2.28.07)
Papercuts: Can’t Go Back (2.14.07)
“Follow that Bird: Keeping house with The Finches” (1.24.07)