by adviser | Oct 11, 2019 | Archives-old
This past week, the online music publication Pitchfork released two lists dissecting both the 200 best songs and 200 best albums of the 2010s.As someone with a love/hate relationship with Pitchfork’s reviews, the lists gave me much less of a pretension-induced...
by adviser | Oct 11, 2019 | Archives-old
2019 kinda sucked for music. Not many good records came out, but these records were the best of the best and I listened to them a lot throughout the year. I have no hope that any records coming within the next two months will be any better than the ones I mention now,...
by adviser | Oct 10, 2019 | Archives-old
I don’t want my column to become a sort of obituary. My last piece was centered around the death of Daniel Johnston. Given the circumstances, this one will also be centered around the death of a musician I consider extremely influential, personally and otherwise....
by adviser | Oct 10, 2019 | Archives-old
Dog Chocolate’s music sits somewhere between classic hardcore and art-rock: loud enough for a fun mosh pit, but smart enough to be genuinely thought-provoking. The band somehow pulls off this balancing act to make a weirdly progressive package. Dog Chocolate’s 2018...
by adviser | Oct 10, 2019 | Archives-old
“Clout is a leech that feeds without constraint on that which we might call the human soul. A bane by whom its absence may make us feel deprived— not of light, not of genuine human contact, but of palpable internal meaning. Yes, clout is a drug of which I am addicted....
