Music
Feature: Liars | Sisterworld
Interview: Danny Seim | Menomena’s Mines
Your Future Our Clutter | The Fall
Matmos Discusses New Albums, Soft Pink Truth
I See The Sign | Sam Amidon
The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer | Red Sparowes
ALARM Magazine | Issue #37 | Jason Adasiewicz, Lightning Bolt
Hidden | These New Puritans
The Creatures In The Garden Of Lady Walton | Clogs
The Flexible Entertainer | Pit Er Pat
The Colossus | RJD2
Boston Phoenix | My Top 2009 Tracks
Preview: Sisterworld | Liars
What Day Is It Tonight? | Trans Am
ALARM Magazine | Issue #36 | Loop 2.4.3
My Favorite Albums of 2009
Six | The Black Heart Procession
Fool’s Gold | Fool’s Gold
Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts | Castanets
Two Dancers | Wild Beasts
Popular Songs | Yo La Tengo
Carboniferous | Zu
Elephant Jokes | Robert Pollard
ALARM Magazine | Issue #35 | Richard Pinhas/Merzbow, Mi Ami, Zu
King of Jeans | Pissed Jeans
Yawiquo | Sax Ruins
Of The Cathmawr Yards | The Horse’s Ha
The Eternal | Sonic Youth
Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free | Akron/Family
Etudes | Takeo Toyama
Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle | Bill Callahan
Repo | Black Dice
Beware | Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Song of the Pearl | Arbouretum
Watersports | Mi Ami
Gutter Tactics | Dälek
Kaleidoscopic | Lars Horntveth
Get Guilty | A.C. Newman
Merriweather Post Pavilion | Animal Collective
My Favorite Albums of 2008
ALARM Magazine | Issue #33 | Death Vessel, Boston Spaceships
Brown Submarine | Boston Spaceships
Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us | Death Vessel
Temper | Benoît Pioulard
Dear Science, | TV on the Radio
Auk/Blood | Tanya Tagaq
ALARM Magazine | Issue #32 | Balustrade Ensemble
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
David Byrne and Brian Eno
Madam Owl | Jeff Hanson
Astrological Straits | Zach Hill
Preteen Weaponry | Oneida
Mothertongue | Nico Muhly
Capsules | The Balustrade Ensemble
Robert Pollard is Off to Business
The Art of Dying | Jason Ajemian’s Smokeless Heat
Tragicomic | Vijay Iyer
Fern Knight
The Yelm Sessions | Eyvind Kang
Svn Fngrs | Black Francis
ALARM Magazine | Issue #30 | Eyvind Kang
Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra
ALARM Magazine | Issue #29 | Kiln
Keefe Jackson’s Project Project – Just Like This
Two Rivers | Amir ElSaffar
Dusker | Kiln
My Favorite Albums of 2007
(Plus Some I Thought Were Terrible)
ALARM Magazine | Issue #28 | Robert Pollard, Immaculate Machine
Stylus Enters the Runout Groove
The Shepherd’s Dog | Iron and Wine
Let’s Stay Friends | Les Savy Fav
Keefe Jackson’s Fast Citizens
Pollock Matters at the McMullen Museum
Liars | Liars
The 5 Most Unusual Musical Performances Ever on TV
Fables | Immaculate Machine
ALARM Magazine | Issue #27 | Through the Sparks, Up the Empire, Pelican
Against Which the Sea Continually Beats | Glenn Jones

About»

I'm a Boston-based writer and editor, covering technology, books, and music. My work has appeared in publications like The Boston Phoenix, PopMatters, ALARM Magazine and Forbes.com.


Recent Posts


Book Reviews»

The Crusades
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Duel at Dawn
American Lives: A Reader
Cartographies of Time
The Fourth Part of the World
Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
2009 Favorites
The Roman Forum
Boston Noir
Ulysses and Us
The Inheritance of Rome
Marcus Aurelius: A Life
The Landmark Herodotus
The Evolution of God
Meriwether Lewis
Judas: A Biography
You Are Here
Paris From The Ground Up
How the Irish Invented Slang

Music Reviews»

Interview: Menomena
Interview: Matmos
The Fall
Sam Amidon
Red Sparowes
These New Puritans
Clogs
Pit Er Pat
RJD2
2009 Top Tracks
2009 Favorites
Interview: Liars
Trans Am
The Black Heart Procession
Fool's Gold
Castanets
Wild Beasts
Yo La Tengo
Zu
Robert Pollard
Pissed Jeans
Sax Ruins
The Horse’s Ha
Sonic Youth

Technology»

Eco-Friendly HDTV
Travel Digital Cameras
Take Great Action Photos
Blu-Ray Primer
Tune Your HDTV
Streaming Internet Video
Best Blu-Ray Players
Best Business Laptops
Best Pocket Camcorders

Notations»

Movie Review:
Inception

The new ALARM Magazine website is live, and it looks awesome. Stay tuned for my features on Matmos and Liars.

Toby Lester, author of The Fourth Part of the World, writes about America’s naming in the Globe.

FEED Magazine, which I credit as an inspiration, closed in 2001. They just put their archives back online.

Manute Bol invented the phrase “My Bad.” Or not?


In Rotation

I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue by Anthony Grafton and Joanna WeinbergWhat Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe

Christianity - The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCullochAge of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers

Eden on the Charles by Michael RawsonBattle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson

Menomena - MinesThe Fall - Your Future Our Clutter

The Crusades by Thomas AsbridgeThe Friends of Eddie Coyle - George V Higgins

American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisDuel at Dawn by Amir Alexander

Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Anthony Grafton and Daniel RosenbergThe Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester

Sam Amidon - I See The SignLiars - Sisterworld