“The resulting album radiates with the manic fervor of youth, hardly letting up between songs, filling the interstitial moments with yelps and laughter, counts and clicks, buzzing amps, clipped conversations, and feedback that bleeds from one song into the next….Read More
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“The fulcrum on which the album turns is the interplay between two songs: ‘The War’ and ‘Forgiveness.’ Mould’s sometimes turbulent, often complex relationship with his father was well documented in his autobiography. On ‘The War,’ Mould openly processes his father’s…Read More
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I’ve been thinking about taste, specifically music taste, as I work my way through Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love. Over at Glide Magazine, I wrote a brief essay about my struggles with my impulse to influence my children’s musical…Read More
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It’s a sandwich shop with a bar, but it’s still a sandwich shop. An old friend who lives in Oakland now is here with me, his visit scheduled, in part, around this show. “Do you want a new song or…Read More
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“Yet for all the reminders of the past, there persisted a subtle disconnect between the old fans, there to cash a cheque written against their teens and twenties, and the band on stage. In the hands of the recently reunited,…Read More
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Right after graduate school, I was especially charged up about leisurely exploring the texts I had read as part of my preparation for exit exams. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle stood out among all of them, primarily because it was so…Read More
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