Non-fiction. Below are features, Q&As, essays, reviews, and news items published by The New York Times, Oxford American, The Boston Globe, Dwell, Pitchfork, The Atlantic, and other fine sources, dating back to 2010.
Recent-ish
Feature: Revisiting ‘Riceboy Sleeps,’ Jónsi & Alex’s ambient classic that took root in Boston. Boston Globe, October 24, 2019
Feature (photos): Long tail effects. On returning home to hurricane-devasted Panama City, FL. Oxford American, September 25, 2019
Feature: Natalie Prass is surviving and thriving. Boston Globe, April 5, 2019
Feature: On the mid-century modern home designer Bob Butler. Dwell, October 25, 2018
Feature: Interpol writes a new chapter. Boston Globe, September 7, 2018
Feature: It's more than a feeling for Dashboard Confessional. Boston Globe, March 28, 2018
On Suuns' Felt. Pitchfork, March 3, 2018
On S. Carey's Hundred Acres. Pitchfork, February 27, 2018
Features, Q&As
Honky tonkers and Mohawk ghosts: On Hank's Saloon, in Brooklyn. New York Times, November 10, 2016
David Bazan and friends beat middle age with the rock band Lo Tom. Boston Globe, August 9, 2017
Fans tweet about mental illness to honor Carrie Fisher. New York Times, December 27, 2016
Angel Olsen navigates the complicated parts of success. Boston Globe, December 1, 2017
Sound artist Lawrence English on the power of radical listening. New York Observer, March 23, 2017
Russell Simmons hopes 'The Scenario,' a hip-hop musical, has mass appeal. New York Times, February 6, 2017
How This Will Destroy You (mostly) found a peaceful, easy feeling. New York Observer, March 13, 2017
Words are futile devices: Q&A on the limits of language with MewithoutYou's Aaron Weiss. New York Observer, May 13, 2016
Why we need the wisdom of Helado Negro now more than ever. Q&A with Roberto Carlos Lange. New York Observer, October 31, 2016
17 pianos, five countries, 20 months: No Home of the Mind. Q&A with Bing & Ruth's David Moore. The FADER, February 10, 2017
The Shins' Chutes Too Narrow and the band's brush with zeitgeist: Retrospective featuring interviews with James Mercer, Phil Ek, Stuart Meyer, and Jesse LeDoux. MAGNET, Issue No. 111
David Bazan: Winners Never Quit. Paste Magazine, November 11, 2014
Q&A/feature on the Seattle folk songwriter Chris Staples. New York Observer, August 26, 2016
Q&A/feature on the modern classical duo High Plains, featuring Loscil. New York Observer, March 9, 2017
Q&A with the ambient/modern classical artist Slow Meadow. New York Observer, May 24, 2016
You Can't Empty Out the Ocean: Westbeth Artists Housing two years after Hurricane Sandy. Medium, November 4, 2014
More than hype: Tennis' pop has something to say. New York Observer, May 14, 2015
Bored and Beautiful in Tel Aviv: Vaadat Charigim's blurry, existentialist Rock. New York Observer, May 22, 2015
Q&A: Ducktails' Matt Mondanile. New York Observer, August 7, 2015
Ether in C Minor: Exploring the cosmos with A Winged Victory for the Sullen. New York Observer, March 23, 2015
In Search of New Skin: Torres' otherworldly Sprinter. New York Observer, May 05, 2015
The Medium: How Tom Mullen took a stand for emo. Paste Magazine, April 28, 2015
Q&A: Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear. (Accompanying feature.) Nashville Scene, April 3, 2014
Q&A: Ken Andrews of Failure. (Accompanying feature.) Nashville Scene, June 5, 2014
Discovery: Courtney Barnett. Interview Magazine, April 9, 2014
Mac DeMarco: Blue is the Warmest Color. Paste Magazine, March 31, 2014
Empathetic Outsider: Damien Jurado continues nurturing outré characters on Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son. Paste Magazine, January 21, 2014
Q and A: Balmorhea. Interview Magazine, September 23, 2014
Normality, Recast: Oneohtrix Point Never composer Daniel Lopatin asks us to consider sound and space in new light. MAGNET, Issue No. 104
Of Flora and Fauna: On Stranger, Austin's Balmorhea charts vibrant new territory. MAGNET, Issue No. 92
Criticism
Angel Olsen isn't my woman or yours. New York Observer, September 6, 2016
On Converge's The Dusk in Us. Boston Globe, November 11, 2017
Junior Boys’ Big Black Coat and evolutions in music criticism. New York Observer. February 10, 2016
On Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell. New York Observer, March 31, 2015
On Benoit Pioulard's Sonnet. New York Observer, April 8, 2015
On The War on Drugs' Lost in the Dream. Paste Magazine, March 18, 2014
After a boom-and-bust hype cycle, the Rapture get spiritual. The Atlantic, September 8, 2011
On St. Vincent's St. Vincent. Paste Magazine, February 25, 2014
On Phantogram's Voices. Paste Magazine, February 18, 2014
On Chromeo's White Women. Paste Magazine, May 13, 2014
Essays/Memoir
Why Underoath's rebirth is so much bigger than music. New York Observer, May 9, 2016
Hardcore, Bambara, Suuns and the light in unsettling music. New York Observer, April 28, 2016
The Blue Pill. New York Observer, January 7, 2016
News items, etc.
On a same-sex "Oklahoma!" and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. New York Times, March 19, 2017
On Klimt auctions and Massachusetts theater. New York Times, February 12, 2017
On 'Hair,' vinyl record plants, and Run the Jewels. New York Times, December 25, 2016
On deported Italian post-punk bands and Pink Floyd operas. New York Times, March 12, 2017
Television recommendations, New York Times, February, 2017
New York Times reporting contributions: "Exorcist" author William Peter Blatty's obit, a story about Carrie Fisher's mental health advocacy
Around Town listings, Dec. 2 - 8, 2016. New York Times, December 1, 2016
Around Town listings, Sept. 23 - 29, 2016. New York Times, Sept. 22, 2016.
Track of the Day (Premiere): Tennyson's "In One Piece." The Atlantic, November 20, 2014
Track of the Day (Premiere): Balmorhea's "Heir I." The Atlantic, August 6, 2014
Track of the Day (Premiere): Phantogram's "Bill Murray." The Atlantic, February 4, 2014