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Writing about music is what got me started in the biz. My first official writerly title was "Teen Music Reviewer" for the local daily newspaper when I was 17 years old. I wrote a column that I printed out and drove to the office every week. My enthusiasm for the subject hasn't changed much since. Here's links to lots of stuff I've done post-teen years.

Features and Longer Things

Better From Afar: My run-in with M.I.A.

Strange in a Strange Land: How Quintron and Miss Pussycat made a world of their own (note: this received an honorable mention in a Da Capo Best Music Writing anthology)

GoodiePal's Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extrabreaks down the computer

Flashes on the Horizon, Lightning Bolt's Power of Salad

Before Peaches was Peaches

Pre-solo Azita Youssefi

Mahjongg's deep truth

Panicsville never meant to piss anyone off

Whoever Makes the Most Noise Wins, a project of Tim Aher's

No Doctors play the blues (kind of)

Pretty Babies: Britney's Y2K concert tour

Ezurate, death metal in the suburbs

Long live Magas's Weekend Records!

Round-ups/Gossip

What a Noise Show Is Like

Skin Drink, Drunkdriver, XRay Eyeballs

International Noise Conference 2009


Interviews


Bad Party Only Kind of Hate You

Where Genders Have Been All This Time


Reviews

2011
Yen Tech
Bleached

2010
Nite Jewel

2009
Further Reductions

2007
Complicated Horse Emergency
Costes
Crystal Castles
Dandi Wind
Fat Worm of Error
Lexie Mountain Boys
No Age
Prurient
Quintron & Miss Pussycat

2006
CocoRosie
Coughs
Dan Deacon
Hazmat
Gang Gang Dance
Hive Mind
Les Georges Leningrad
Magik Markers
MC Trachiotomy
STNNNG

2005
Edie Sedgwick
John Wiese
Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device
Marriage
Megadeth
OCS
Sleeping With the Earth

2004
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Blonde Redhead
Britney Spears
Daughters
Emil Beaulieau
Felix da Housecat
Flying Luttenbachers
Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart
JC Chasez
Kites
LCD Soundsystem
Les Georges Leningrad
Metallica
Metalux
No Doctors
Shinth Tour (with Peter Blasser)
Stills
YACHT

2003
25 Suaves
Adult., Magas, Tamion 12 Inch
Animal Collective
A.R.E. Weapons
Bounty Killer
Chicago Sound
Coughs
Fischerspooner
Friends Forever
Hella
Justin Timberlake
Kid606 and Dwayne Sodahberk
Ladytron
Luke Eargoggle
Metal Urbain
Mindflayer
Neon Hunk
Paradise Island
Pelican
SSION
Vertonen

2002
Adult.
Andrew W.K.
Black Dice
Ellen Allien
Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet
Irene Moon
Le Tigre
Miss Kittin & the Hacker
No Doubt
Occasional Detroit
Sightings
Viki

2001
Arab on Radar
Strangulated Beatoffs
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