Music Writing
As the Editorial Director at The FADER for five years and an Editor at VICE’s music vertical before that, I’ve written thousands of articles on music, from longform profiles to opinion pieces to essays and everything in between.
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Pitchfork's Sunday Review: The Tragically Hip, Fully Completely
The 1992 album from the preeminent Canadian rock band is the sound of national icons coming into their own, and confronting the foundational myths of their country.
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Pitchfork's Sunday Review: William Ackerman, In Search of the Turtle's Navel
A sublime 1976 solo guitar album and a humbly brilliant record that spawned a colossal new-age music empire.
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Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE
On his fifth album, Justin Vernon moves out of the shadows and into an unabashedly joyful mindset and soundscape. His music remains as compelling as ever.
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Cover Story: Getting Lost with Ravyn Lenae
To make her sophomore album, Bird’s Eye, the Chicago singer had to move beyond rigid genres, beyond home, and beyond her past.
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Haruomi Hosono's endless experiment
With a new tribute album celebrating the legacy of his solo debut, Hosono House, the Japanese legend’s radical creative energy continues to ripple across borders and generations.
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Cass McCombs, at the beginning
Seed Cake on Leap Year, a collection of early recordings from the enigmatic songwriter, quietly reveals something essential about his creative instincts.
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The Armed: THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED
The Detroit collective’s sixth album faces down the apocalypse with some of its heaviest music yet: visceral, vital, and filled with desperate, righteous anger.
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The many jerks of MJ Lenderman’s Manning Fireworks
On his fourth solo album, the Wednesday guitarist and budding indie alt-country star weaves absurd imagery into every melancholic verse.
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Yasmin Williams escapes tradition
On her third album, Acadia, the guitarist and composer pushes even further beyond folk conventions, incorporating jazz, bluegrass, and ambient music.