Music | Michael Patrick Brady
Music
ALARM Magazine: Chromatic | Rob Mazurek
Feature: Mi Ami
Feature: Merzbow / Richard Pinhas
My Favorite Albums of 2010
Feature: Matmos
Feature: Menomena | Mines
ALARM Magazine | Issue #38 | Liars, Matmos
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. My work has appeared in publications like The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, PopMatters, ALARM Magazine and Forbes.com.


Notations»

05.15.13

Matthew Yglesias summarizes the entire Star Trek franchise and argues that it needs to get back on the small screen, immediately.

05.01.13

It’s a 401(k) world, and it sucks.

04.10.13

I definitely did not expect the best post-Thatcher essay to be from Russell Brand, but… wow.



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Books»

Odds Against TomorrowNathaniel Rich
SchroderAmity Gaige
Favorite Books of 2012
All in the FamilyRobert O. Self
Our Lady of Alice BhattiMohammed Hanif
With the AnimalsNoëlle Revaz
Traveler of the CenturyAndrés Neuman
Favorite Books of 2011
Broken IrishEdward J. Delaney
Stories for Nighttime and Some for the DayBen Loory
Why Marx Was RightTerry Eagleton
Favorite Books of 2010
Favorite Books of 2009
Favorite Books of 2008

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