Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
When author Tony DuShane was a nervous young man struggling with being a Jehovah's Witness, his extremely religious father lost his mind and punched five…
Imaginary wishlist: Great reads of 2009
2009 was an excellent year for book lovers, even if publishers became as entrenched about withering economic changes as much as the cowering music industry.…
Vagabond Holes
A couple of years ago Domino Records reissued five glorious double-disc treatments of The Triffids' obscure oeuvre, little known jewels from the one band every…
Live Nude Elf: A Carrie Bradshaw for malcontents and the elvish
She's a young woman in the big city writing a column about sex. She learns a lot with her friends, goes through scandalous relationships and…
McSweeney's New Fiction at Bumbershoot
This panel was of great interest to me since getting fiction published through McSweeney’s would be a dream come true, so even just hearing this…
Our Noise: The Story Of Merge Records to be released September 22nd
Warning: This is an ecstatic early plug for the upcoming fan-dream book, Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label that Got Big…
Audio Oasis: An Imaginary Treatise on Sound
You know Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Dan Deacon and other great indie innovators are getting textural and contextual inspiration from somewhere other than what's reviewed…
Michael Muhammad Knight is the Muslim punk Salinger
A Shi'ite skinhead and his female punk-hippie partner in crime abduct a movie star to threaten Hollywood into making films in which Muslims don't all…
Sound Unbound
This is a thick, encyclopedic collection of essays about aesthetics, by people who have a tendency to take structural forms (pop songs, soul music, genre…
Mome Vol. 11, Summer 2008
I have reviewed MOME for Three Imaginary Girls before, and usually a music website is perfectly satisfied with one plug for a comics title. But…