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…
Thomas Pynchon loves my band!
Thomas Pynchon, the celebrated and notoriously reclusive 72-year old author of such books as Mason & Dixon and Inherent Vice (which was just published last…
Elizabeth Goodman writes the book on Cat Power
Elizabeth Goodman, a former editor at the missed rock magazine Blender, has written a very compelling biography of Chan Marshall, the artist we collectively know…
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…
The Believer's new Music Issue has hell of a mix tape
Every year the beautifully-printed magazine The Believer, which features some of the most thought-rattling, heartfelt oblique essays you'll ever read and terrific artwork by cartoonists…
Girls Guide to Rocking comes to Vera
Jessica Hopper, one of my favorite rock critics to read - and not "even when I disagree with her" but especially when I disagree with…
Fretboard Journal take podcasting up a notch with John Roderick
The folks at the Fretboard Journal are my heros. Issue after issue they pack each quarterly publication with beautiful pieces geared towards the smarty pants…
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…
"Yeti #3"
A recurring conversation I've had with many people in the past few years has been, "Hey, where the hell's the new "Yeti?" We were speaking…