Updated 12/13/2025

My review of Neil Young’s ROXY: Tonight’s the Night Live, capturing the moment when he really got into the ditch.

At Critics at Large: remembering a modest but flawless little crime drama that has never left my memory.

At Critics at Large: My piece on the bilious, brilliant books of the Brown Buffalo, Oscar Zeta Acosta.

At HiLobrow: My contribution to a year-long series in which 52 writers wax on one of their favorite albums of the Nineties. (N.B. This...

At Critics at Large: my review of Ryan H. Walsh’s Astral Weeks, concerning Van Morrison, the Lyman cult, and everything weird and...

The last thing I’ll ask you to read this year, I promise: my thoughts on the Beatles’ Christmas records — both the more familiar and the...

I’m thrilled that an excerpt from Magic Circles has found its way into another magnificent anthology of music writing. In Sound Bites:...

My review of the controversial Jann Wenner biography, concerning “the baby-boomer visionary whose singular will to power, rakish...

Black voters kicked racist red-state ass. To repurpose a phrase from Ronald Reagan – who meant something quite different by it – it’s...

“Unless [the] would-be lover is able to replace his or her backbone with a steel rod, he or she is doomed. This is no place for love.” At...