AsthmaticKitty.com, September 22, 2007
Nothing Gets Between Me and My Calvin: An Appreciation of K Records' Founder Calvin Johnson
AsthmaticKitty.com, February 19, 2007
Trondheim, Norway: A Review of the City with Brandon Stosuy via "Chatcast"
Coolfer.com, April 25, 2006
One View on the Chuck Eddy/Village Voice Situation: Guest blogging at Coolfer.com
Coolfer.com, May 20, 2005
A River Named Derci: I'm out of here ladies and germs.
Coolfer.com, May 18, 2005
Some random bullshit about country music & the influence of Bruce Springsteen, et. al.: As of Friday you won't have this Famous Freelance Writer to kick around anymore!
Coolfer.com, May 16, 2005
Anatomy of the DFA hype.: There were some good comments about yesterday's post about EMI's deal with DFA.
Coolfer.com, May 15, 2005
Billboard proof of the rock revival! EMI's DFA deal not retarded!: May I offer this no-frills Sunday post
Coolfer.com, May 11, 2005
Spooning w/ the big boys.: What's with this blog, Mr. Coolfer?
Coolfer.com, May 09, 2005
The Mountain Goats used to be good, now they're really really good.: If you thought my self-promotion was bad, wow, well check this Huffington Post shit out!
Coolfer.com, May 07, 2005
Direct retail accounts; plus, a Coolfer world record!: There will be more typos than usual in this post because i can't spell very well + it's a long post, and I just don't want to deal. Sorry.
Coolfer.com, May 06, 2005
Prince also has a song called "Controversy.": Thank you "Confounded" for my first piece of Coolfer.com hate mail
Coolfer.com, May 02, 2005
Hi-Fi Listening Party for PELA - Weds, May 4th 9-11pm: thatz how it iz here in the blagosfeer
Coolfer.com, April 29, 2005
What's on the desk of a famous freelance writer.: You told me I should feel free to self-promote. I have done this.
Coolfer.com, April 27, 2005
Why interactivity rulz.: How the hell do you come up with random stuff to post about like three times a day?
Coolfer.com, April 25, 2005
Why interactivity sucks.: Another interruption from the blogosphere
Coolfer.com, April 22, 2005
The New Rock = Grunge Mach 2*: We're in the midst of a full blown rock revival.
Coolfer.com, April 20, 2005
Edgar Bronfman = Indie Rock Kingpin: Indie rock would not exist if it were not for his beneficent capitalistic ways
Coolfer.com, April 18, 2005
Hello from Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo. If You Love Me, I'll Like You.: It is I, Alec Hanley Bemis, famous freelance writer person. (Sarcasm alert!)
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The Psychic Hipster (November 2007): Blackouts, Sellouts, and Freakouts
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The Psychic Hipster (August 2007): Summer Lovin', Happened So Fast
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The Psychic Hipster (June 2007): Math Rock, M.I.A., and the Secret of iTunes Plus
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The Psychic Hipster (May 2007): The World According to Bjork, Aoki, Tweedy and a Gaggle of Teenage Guitar Girls
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The Psychic Hipster (May 2007): Rappers Who'll Make You Dial for Dollars And Post-Feminist Pop From One-Hit Wonders
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The Psychic Hipster (March 2007): Take You Higher! Featuring Prince as Joni, Emo as jock-jam
LA Weekly, February 28, 2007
The Psychic Hipster (February 2007): Sales Go Soft. Shins Go Limp. Rock Critics Go Limper.
LA Weekly, January 31, 2007
The Psychic Hipster (January 2007): Hip-hop is dead...and other reports that have been greatly exaggerated
LA Weekly, December 27, 2006
The Psychic Hipster (December 2006): The Year Blogs Got Lame, Business Got Hip and Nostalgia Was King
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The Psychic Hipster (November 2006): Baby Bands, New-School Show Tunes and the Rise and Fall (!) of Yindie
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The Psychic Hipster (October 2006): Heady Metal, Britain's Favorite DJ, and a Defense of Americana's Best Killers
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The Psychic Hipster (June 2006): Summer Songs, Blues Hollers and Genre Actions
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LA Weekly, March 08, 2006
The Psychic Hipster (March 2006): Rock Out. Get Sprung. Reconsider K-Fed.Say Goodbye to Love Monkey.
LA Weekly, January 23, 2006
The Psychic Hipster (January 2006): Babyshambles, Dueling Indie Babes, and 50 Cent Does Bat Mitzvah (No Shit)
LA Weekly, January 05, 2006
The Psychic Hipster (List Issue 2005): Hipsters Must Die: 10 signs of the (Yindie) apocalypse
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The Psychic Hipster (December 2005): Blogs & iPods & Jay-Z & (Non-Ironic) Metal: The Hipster's musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis
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The Psychic Hipster (November 2005): Bubblegum Hip-Hop and a Band with Three Test Icicles
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LA Weekly, September 01, 2005
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LA Weekly, June 02, 2005
The Psychic Hipster (June 2005): The debut column
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Miscellaneous Projects, February 17, 2009
Appreciation | Red Hot's Dark Was The Night benefit compilation: Commissioned as a written accompaniment to the album
Miscellaneous Projects, July 29, 2008
Some Words About Migration: On the occasion of Takka Takka's new album
Miscellaneous Projects, July 18, 2008
Appreciation | Don't Look Back: Sebadoh's "Bubble & Scrape": For ATP's Don't Look Back US concert series
Miscellaneous Projects, May 20, 2008
Bio | About Human Skin: Some Words About Vincent Moon's "A Skin, A Night"
LA Weekly, February 27, 2008
What Would Crass Do?: Jeffrey Lewis Interprets England's Crustiest Punk Band.
AsthmaticKitty.com, September 22, 2007
Nothing Gets Between Me and My Calvin: An Appreciation of K Records' Founder Calvin Johnson
Miscellaneous Projects, September 17, 2007
Bio | Toasting the Immoralists: Some Words About Devastations' Yes, U
Miscellaneous Projects, May 29, 2007
Liner Note | White Russians and gay bars, poets and songwriters, Hollywood dreams and lo-fidelity cassettes: Remembering Jason Morphew's "Holding Merle Haggard" (LP reissue liner note)
Miscellaneous Projects, March 21, 2007
Bio | Some Words About Boxer: About The National's fourth album
LA Weekly, March 14, 2007
Trondheim Rock City!: Scandinavia's biggest rock fest, featuring Aryan cuties, a Nazi bowling alley and the prime minister's glam grandson
Miscellaneous Projects, June 28, 2006
Insound | Brassland's Best Records: A Musical Education
Miscellaneous Projects, June 05, 2006
Insound | Hi Insound customers: An introduction to Brassland Records
Coolfer.com, April 25, 2006
One View on the Chuck Eddy/Village Voice Situation: Guest blogging at Coolfer.com
LA Weekly, December 01, 2005
Busking for Stardom: What matters for buzz bands these days is becoming the next blog thing
Los Angeles Times, August 28, 2005
The Soft Revolution: Today's folk songs are being sung--very quietly--by a generation that's had it with sex and drugs and doing it in the road
Miscellaneous Projects, March 15, 2005
Catalog Essay | Equivalents: Essay for the catalog to Quintin Rivera Toro's exhibition Un Espacio Libre (translation A Free Space), Museo de Arte de Caguas, Puerto Rico
LA Weekly, September 24, 2004
A Small New Future: On the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers
LA Weekly, September 02, 2004
3 Myths About the Recording Industry Debunked: What you really need to know to make it in the music business today
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Man and Machine: Used Car Assurance
LA Weekly, May 22, 2002
Dreaming, Grieving, Making Music: Neil Young and Loren Connors rock & roll over
LA Weekly, March 27, 2002
Playtime: Are video games creating a new reality, or is interactivity turning everything into a game? A disquisition on life at 125 million polygons per second.
LA Weekly, February 13, 2002
Queasy Sick Wonderful: What it means to love records
LA Weekly, December 05, 2001
The Sound of Music: Listening after 9/11
LA Weekly, September 13, 2000
Loving and Leaving the Phonograph: Why Napster, extraterrestrials, Southern hillbillies and Dick Clark mean more to the future of music than copyright and the Recording Industry Association of America
LA Weekly, February 02, 2000
The Devil in Miss Spears: The fire in our loins, the bottom of our broken hearts
LA Weekly, April 09, 2008
Brian McBride, Drone Musician and USC Debate Coach: An Interview: Resolved: Stars of the Lid play very slowly.
LA Weekly, October 17, 2007
Awesome Music: What might the classical music establishment learn from pop?
LA Weekly, August 22, 2007
The World According to Hutz: Sufism, Chernobyl, Little Richard madness and other adventures in cultural fusion with Gogol Bordello's mastermind
LA Weekly, July 18, 2007
Slint's Return to Spiderland: Brian McMahan on the return of his band...and party music!
LA Weekly, February 14, 2007
Folk, Without the Beards: Meet Grizzly Bear, indie rock's best "gay-straight-straight-straight quadrant"
LA Weekly, January 17, 2007
Stone, Warm, Sober: From laughing gas to nonalcoholic beer: Robert Stone in the '60s and today
LA Weekly, November 08, 2006
Dirty Reggae: The Aggrolites play ska as Jah intended
LA Weekly, October 25, 2006
Too Much Sexy: Pedro Winter and the French funk of Ed Banger Records
LA Weekly, July 19, 2006
A Rasta-Colored Dixie Flag: If '60s turned out to be '90s: Brightblack Morning Light
LA Weekly, May 10, 2006
Mean Snacks and Monkey Shit: Talking bananas with George Saunders
LA Weekly, March 22, 2006
Stratocaster Collage: Glenn Branca's Hallucination City for 100 electric guitars
LA Weekly, February 28, 2006
Chapter and Verse: Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem and John Darnielle on the crossbreeding of literature and pop
LA Weekly, March 07, 2005
Ballads of the Thin Man: alaska!'s Imaad Wasif talks about near-death touring experiences, the pros and cons of tomahawks, and what it doesn't mean to be skinny.
LA Weekly, November 04, 2004
Captain, My Captain: William Shatner on life, love, horses and making a record with Ben Folds
LA Weekly, August 05, 2004
'My Name is Bill...': A Q&A with the anonymous founder of flash mobs
LA Weekly, April 29, 2004
Intima: Q&A with Argentine singer Juana Molina
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Q&A: Bemis prepares to print new 'Jaboni'
LA Weekly, November 14, 2007
Neko Case, Deep Red Belle: She's an auburn-haired Caucasian woman of Ukrainian descent. Is Case also the blackest woman in indie rock?
AsthmaticKitty.com, September 22, 2007
Nothing Gets Between Me and My Calvin: An Appreciation of K Records' Founder Calvin Johnson
Miscellaneous Projects, September 17, 2007
Bio | Toasting the Immoralists: Some Words About Devastations' Yes, U
Miscellaneous Projects, May 29, 2007
Liner Note | White Russians and gay bars, poets and songwriters, Hollywood dreams and lo-fidelity cassettes: Remembering Jason Morphew's "Holding Merle Haggard" (LP reissue liner note)
LA Weekly, January 17, 2007
Stone, Warm, Sober: From laughing gas to nonalcoholic beer: Robert Stone in the '60s and today
LA Weekly, April 19, 2006
Rock & Roll Torchbearer: A profile of Brett Gurewitz
LA Weekly, October 06, 2005
Special Ed: The catman of Atwater
The New York Times, April 03, 2005
Standing Awkwardly at the Edge of His Own Spotlight: A profile of musician Daniel Johnston, and details on the new documentary about his life.
LA Weekly, February 24, 2005
Boys Do Cry: Antony and the Johnsons' uncut emotions
The New York Times, December 12, 2004
Freak Folk's Very Own Pied Piper: A profile of Devendra Banhart
The New York Times, October 10, 2004
William Shatner's New Enterprise: William Shatner has returned to music with a new album, Has Been, produced by the singer-songwriter Ben Folds.
The New York Times, August 22, 2004
And the Band Went On and On and On: A profile of The Polyphonic Spree
LA Weekly, March 11, 2004
The Story in the Soil: The Omaha rock scene, the world of the flyover people, the future of the music business, and one vicious head wound
LA Weekly, September 18, 2003
A Day With The Locust: On the road with the world's most dangerous band. Also, an investigation of death metal, "hardcore," millionaire punks and the mysterious Tijuana zebra
Los Angeles Times, July 06, 2003
Music of Love From an Awkward Soul: The Notwist, a German underground band with hard-core punk roots, casts a wider sonic net and finds more fans.
Los Angeles Times, July 01, 2003
Unapologetic Guilty Pleasure: The New Pornographers' variation on power-pop isn't meant to be deep or connect with the disaffected. Just enjoy the sugar-coated tunes.
LA Weekly, June 05, 2003
From Cheese to Backyard Wrestling: The Business of Backyard Wrestling
Los Angeles Times, June 04, 2003
Flaming Lips: Music With a Menagerie: The pop group, known to encourage audience members to behave like animals, has become an unlikely success story.
LA Weekly, May 15, 2003
Like a Cancer: Neil Hamburger is so inside he could break out
LA Weekly, May 08, 2003
Nightlife: The Journal of Philosophy and Thongs Comes West
LA Weekly, June 12, 2002
Paul Williams, Subjective Artist: A profile of the world's first and most dedicated Dylanologist
LA Weekly, June 12, 2002
Richard Meltzer, Noise Boy: A profile of the inventor of rock criticism
LA Weekly, January 17, 2001
Spare 1 Bdrm. Fully Furnished.: My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.
LA Weekly, December 06, 2000
Dr. Kool's Pop Quiz: Keith Thornton, Ph.d., an old professor from the new school, knows rap is here to test you
LA Weekly, May 03, 2000
Anonymity, Misery, Softness: Can Elliott Smith save pop music?
Village Voice, August 17, 1999
Multi-Personalities on the Mic, All Shook Up: The missing link between Sun Ra and Zapp?
LA Weekly, March 07, 2007
Illuminating the Manuscripts: The Arcade Fire's modest grandeur
AsthmaticKitty.com, February 19, 2007
Trondheim, Norway: A Review of the City with Brandon Stosuy via "Chatcast"
Music Magazines, October 26, 2005
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LA Weekly, February 17, 2005
What We Talk About When We Talk About Harp Players: Joanna Newsom is a riddle wrapped in heartstrings
LA Weekly, February 10, 2005
Every Now and Then He Falls Apart: Seeing Bright Eyes in the big picture
LA Weekly, December 02, 2004
Weddings & Funerals: The Arcade Fire tap into all the bliss running wild underneath
Music Magazines, October 19, 2004
Blender | Ted Leo & the Pharmacists "Shake the Sheets" (Lookout!): New Jersey songwriter creates odes about back streets, speaks for the common man. Sound familiar?
LA Weekly, August 26, 2004
Slack Dreams: Animal Collective's relaxed approach to success
Slate, August 19, 2004
Left Your Guitar In San Francisco?: The latest from Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, and other odd fixtures of the new Bay Area folk scene.
Music Magazines, May 04, 2004
Blender | Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing In The Hands" (Young God): Actor-handsome boho's second album plays like the soundtrack to one fucked-up acid flashback
Music Magazines, March 30, 2004
Blender | Bob Dylan "Live 1964 -- Concert at Philharmonic Hall: The Bootleg Series Volume 6" (Columbia/Legacy): The boy genius, unplugged and unglued
Music Magazines, January 31, 2004
Blender | Elliott Smith: His Life in CDs
Music Magazines, October 28, 2003
Blender | Eric B. & Rakim "Paid in Full - Deluxe Edition" (Island): Landmark debut from New York duo that balanced consciousness with cash worship
LA Weekly, August 28, 2003
Beans: August 21, 2003 at Temple Bar, Los Angeles, CA
LA Weekly, July 31, 2003
Juana Molina: July 25, 2003 at the Silent Movie Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Music Magazines, June 10, 2003
Blender | Naughty by Nature "The Best of..." (Tommy Boy/Rhino): Early nostalgia alert! Here come the greatest hits of mid-'90s hip-hop
Slate, May 06, 2003
The Madman of Electronica: How does Aphex Twin get away with his nutty musical stunts?
LA Weekly, May 01, 2003
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival: April 26 & 27 at Indio Polo Fields, Indio, CA
Slate, March 19, 2003
The Singing Sourpuss: Why is Cat Power so gloomy?
Music Magazines, March 11, 2003
Blender | Jody Watley "Midnight Lounge" (Shinbone Alley/Shanachie): Seventh album by former Best New Artist puts her in the rarefied company of Milli Vanilli
Music Magazines, March 04, 2003
Blender | Cursive "The Ugly Organ" (Saddle Creek): Fourth full-length and third successive concept album by Omaha's self-referential emo champs
LA Weekly, February 13, 2003
Metric: February 5, 2003 at the Silverlake Lounge, Los Angeles, CA
Music Magazines, February 04, 2003
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LA Weekly, January 30, 2003
Nouvelle Cuisine: French pop non-stop
LA Weekly, January 23, 2003
Devendra Banhart & Entrance: January 17, 2003 at the Silverlake Lounge, Los Angeles, CA
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A Thousand Teens Bloom: Dischord's moments in grace
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Speed Freaks: On the road with Dave Eggers
LA Weekly, November 06, 2002
The Strokes: November 1, 2003 at the Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA
The New Yorker, October 14, 2002
Junkyard Angel: Beck comes clean.
LA Weekly, October 02, 2002
Baseball at the End of the World: The amazing adventures of Ethan Feld
LA Weekly, August 07, 2002
Boys Are For Noise: Lightning Bolt & the rise of horrible noise
LA Weekly, May 22, 2002
Dreaming, Grieving, Making Music: Neil Young and Loren Connors rock & roll over
LA Weekly, April 17, 2002
Up a Creek: The Band that rings like a bell
LA Weekly, March 27, 2002
Golden Handcuffs: And good thangs
LA Weekly, December 26, 2001
Shit Year. Good Music.: The Year in Review 2001
LA Weekly, December 05, 2001
The Sound of Music: Listening after 9/11
LA Weekly, November 28, 2001
Hungry Heart: Dan Bern's hometown of the world
LA Weekly, June 20, 2001
Freedom Fighter: Denis Johnson seeks out the American edge
LA Weekly, March 14, 2001
Standards and Practices: A Tortoise in the marketplace
Village Voice, January 30, 2001
Bring the Paint: Shellac (Live)
Village Voice, January 30, 2001
Room and Bored: Angus MacLise & La Monte Young unleash the drone
LA Weekly, January 17, 2001
Spare 1 Bdrm. Fully Furnished.: My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.
Village Voice, October 04, 2000
Butt Seriously: Rudy Ray Moore (Live)
Village Voice, September 12, 2000
I Was a Golden God: Kevin Coyne (Live)
Village Voice, June 14, 2000
Jesus Christ Superstar: Al Green in Central Park
LA Weekly, June 14, 2000
Existential Funk: A summer guide to solipsistic Sartre rock