Other Writing and Appearances
A not-quite-exhaustive catalog of everything I've published and everywhere I've spoken since 2016.
Appearances
- NPR's 1A, discussing Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
- The New York Times Popcast, discussing André 3000’s album New Blue Sun
- Bonefish, discussing André 3000
- Bandsplain, discussing 311
Writing
ESSAYS
2024
- Modes of Transportation, Hearing Things
- Listen Deeply (introduction to field recordings), LA Phil
- “True Believer,” Los Angeles Review of Books
- Head Hunters at 50:
How Herbie Hancock Cut Loose and Made One of the Greatest Albums of All Time, LA Phil - “I Will Never Die, Pt. 2,” Los Angeles Review of Books
2023
- The Books’ The Lemon of Pink Turns 20, Stereogum
- Remembering Jazz Giant Wayne Shorter With 6 Essential Tracks, Pitchfork
- Sublime, Sublime, liner notes for Vinyl Me Please
2019
- At the End of the End of the Decade Lists, The Outline
- 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
- POW! Twelve Albums that Influenced Check Your Head, FLOOD
2016
FEATURE REPORTAGE/INTERVIEWS
2025
2024
2023
2020
- In Conversation: Deftones’ Chino Moreno Has Finally Achieve Balance, FLOOD
- Betting It All on 311, The A.V. Club (3/11 Day in Vegas in the first days of Covid)
2017
- Is Everything Awesome? A Philosophical Inquiry with Nick Riggle, FLOOD
- Miguel and Pussy Riot Party at the Brink, FLOOD (Cover Story)
- 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
- At the Edges of the Edge of the World: Is Icelandic Music Over?, FLOOD
- Under the Influence: Jonathan Lethem, FLOOD
- In Conversation: Sérgio Dias of Os Mutantes Talks the Olympics, Brazilian Politics, FLOOD
- Face of Fela: The Art of Lemi Ghariokwu, FLOOD
- Shine A Light: Savages and the Unblinking Love-Rock of Adore Life, FLOOD
RECORD REVIEWS
2025
- Steve Gunn, Daylight Daylight, Pitchfork
- Anna von Hausswolff, Iconoclasts, Pitchfork
- Natural Information Society, Perseverance Flow, Pitchfork
- crushed, no scope, Pitchfork
- Nine Inch Nails, Tron: Ares OST, Pitchfork
- Jehnny Beth, You Heartbreaker, You, Pitchfork
- Ganser, Animal Hospital, Pitchfork
- Deftones, private music, Pitchfork
- No Joy, Bugland, Pitchfork
- U.S. Girls, Scratch It, Pitchfork
- Youth Code, Yours, With Malice, Pitchfork
- Emma-Jean Thackray, Weirdo, Pitchfork
- Miki Berenyi Trip, Tripla, Pitchfork
- Panda Bear, Sinister Grift, Pitchfork
2024
- TV on the Radio, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (reissue), Pitchfork
- Geordie Greep, The New Sound, Pitchfork
- Garbage, Version 2.0, Pitchfork (Sunday Review)
- Dave Harrington, Skull Dream, Pitchfork
- 200 Stab Wounds, Manual Manic Procedures, Pitchfork
- 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
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
- 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
- Portrayal of Guilt, Devil Music, Pitchfork
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra, V, Pitchfork
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
- 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
2019
- 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
- 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
2016