Other Writing
A not-quite-exhaustive catalog of everything I've published since 2015. Podcast appearances are linked at the bottom of the page, too.
2024
- Interview with Dickie Landry, Other Plans gallery
- Dave Harrington, Skull Dream, Pitchfork
- 200 Stab Wounds, Manual Manic Procedures, Pitchfork
- Head Hunters at 50:
How Herbie Hancock Cut Loose and Made One of the Greatest Albums of All Time, LA Phil - Amaro Freitas, Y’Y, Pitchfork
- Mary Timony, Untame the Tiger, Pitchfork
- Mannequin Pussy, I Got Heaven, Pitchfork
- Fabiano do Nascimento/Sam Gendel, The Room, Pitchfork
- “I Will Never Die, Pt. 2,” Los Angeles Review of Books
2023
- War, The World is a Ghetto: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition, Pitchfork
- Full of Hell/Nothing, When No Birds Sang, Pitchfork
- André 3000, New Blue Sun, Pitchfork
- Salmon Graveyard, Salmon Graveyard, Pitchfork
- The Books’ The Lemon of Pink Turns 20, Stereogum
- Leo Takami, Next Door, Pitchfork
- Sprain, The Lamb as Effigy or Three Hundred and Fifty XOXOXOS for a Spark Union With My Darling Divine, Pitchfork
- A Requiem for the Dead, The Ringer
- Remembering Jazz Giant Wayne Shorter With 6 Essential Tracks, Pitchfork
- Portrayal of Guilt, Devil Music, Pitchfork
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra, V, Pitchfork
- Sublime, Sublime, liner notes for Vinyl Me Please
2022
- Willie Nelson, Live at Budokan, Pitchfork
- Ganser, Nothing You Do Matters, Pitchfork
- Red Hot Chili Peppers, Return of the Dream Canteen, Pitchfork
- Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros., Live in Colorado, Vol. 2, Pitchfork
- Basher, Doubles, Pitchfork
- Mamaleek, Diner Coffee, Pitchfork
- Blood Incantation’s Time Wave Zero is a Death Metal Record Without the Death Metal, The A.V. Club
- Garcia Peoples, Dodging Dues, Pitchfork
2021
- Parquet Courts, Sympathy for Life, Pitchfork
- Full of Hell, Garden of Burning Apparitions, Pitchfork
- Aenigmatum, Deconsecrate, Pitchfork
- Steve Gunn, Other You, Pitchfork
- Stone Temple Pilots, Tiny Music…Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop (Super Deluxe Edition), Pitchfork
- Catch Prichard, I Still Miss Theresa Benoit, Pitchfork
- Carlos Niño & Friends, More Energy Fields, Current, Pitchfork
- Matt Sweeney / Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Superwolves, Pitchfork
- Wau Wau Collectif, Yaral Sa Doom, Pitchfork
- Mogwai, As the Love Continues, Pitchfork
- Thin Lizzy, Jailbreak, Pitchfork (Sunday Review)
2020
- Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto, Pitchfork
- In Conversation: Deftones’ Chino Moreno Has Finally Achieve Balance, FLOOD
- Jackson / Baker / Kirshner, So Glossy and So Thin, Pitchfork
- Spencer Zahn, Sunday Painter, Pitchfork
- Dan Deacon, Well Groomed (Original Score), Pitchfork
- Gordon Koang, Unity, Pitchfork
- Carlos Niño & Friends, Actual Presence, Pitchfork
- George Clanton & Nick Hexum, George Clanton & Nick Hexum, Pitchfork
- Modern Nature, Annual, Pitchfork
- TENGGER, Nomad, Pitchfork
- Betting It All on 311, The A.V. Club
2019
- At the End of the End of the Decade Lists, The Outline
- In Acid for the Children, Flea Thumps and Pops His Way Toward Profundity, The A.V. Club
- Before Brian Eno Made Music for Airports, Ernest Hood Made Music for Neighborhoods, The A.V. Club
- On Ghosteen, Nick Cave Invites Us into His Bright Abyss, The A.V. Club
- 1999 Was Cash Money’s Turn to Shine, The A.V. Club
- Sublime’s Legacy is More Complicated Than the Bros (and the Haters) Would Have You Think, The A.V. Club
2018
- Beastie Boys Book Lets the World in on the Trio’s Inside Jokes, Pitchfork
- After Soaring for 5 Volumes, Knausgaard Brings My Struggle in for a Rough Landing, The A.V. Club
- Kid Cudi Lifts Kanye Up on Kids See Ghosts, The A.V. Club
- Domenico Lancellotti, The Good is a Big God, Pitchfork
- Is Everything Awesome? A Philosophical Inquiry with Nick Riggle, FLOOD
2017
- Miguel and Pussy Riot Party at the Brink, FLOOD (Cover Story)
- POW! Twelve Albums that Influenced Check Your Head, FLOOD
- Oasis: FORM Arcosanti Offers Streams in the Desert, FLOOD
- A New Day Dawning: How Check Your Head Invented the Beastie Boys, FLOOD (Cover Story)
- Bitte, Baby: Riot LA and Comedy in the Age of Trump, FLOOD
2016
- A Tribe Called Quest, We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service, FLOOD
- At the Edges of the Edge of the World: Is Icelandic Music Over?, FLOOD
- Under the Influence: Jonathan Lethem
- Pissed, Destroy, Etc.: On Joe Corré’s Sex Pistols Pyre and the “Death” of Punk, FLOOD
- In Conversation: Sérgio Dias of Os Mutantes Talks the Olympics, Brazilian Politics, FLOOD
- Lift Off: Pitchfork Fest Gets Jazzy and Transcendent, FLOOD
- Face of Fela: The Art of Lemi Ghariokwu, FLOOD
- The Only Thing Missing Was the Goals: Brazil and Ecuador Face Off at the Rose Bowl, FLOOD
- Chance the Rapper, Coloring Book, FLOOD
- Drink American: What Budweiser’s Rebranding Says About Our National Devotion to Irony, FLOOD
- Radiohead Are the Internet’s Master Controllers, FLOOD
- The Whole Truth: ESPN, FX, and OJ, FLOOD
- Shine A Light: Savages and the Unblinking Love-Rock of Adore Life, FLOOD
2015
- Bitter Rivals: Sleigh Bells’ Derek Miller on LSU Football, Leonard Fournette, and Alabama, FLOOD
- Loving You is Complicated: Kendrick Lamar’s Kunta’s Groove Sessions, FLOOD
- Sans Viande: A Vegetarian Guide to Montreal, FLOOD
- Finding Life in a City on Fire, FLOOD
- Desire Lines: POP Montreal 2015, FLOOD
- Wyld Stallyn: Bojack Horseman Sneaks Tragedy in Through Comedy’s Hollow Body, FLOOD (cover story)
- Stay Cool: 10.0 Years of Pitchfork Music Festival, FLOOD
- Shards: Six Reflections on Philip Glass’ Words Without Music, FLOOD
- LIVE: Sufjan Stevens is Trying to Break Your Heart, FLOOD
- Bill Fay, ’70s Jesus-Freak Folk, and the Secular World, Pitchfork