Updated 2/24/2024

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

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:...

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

Up at Critics at Large: thinking about Sinéad O’Connor, her classic album, her painful public life, and her notorious Saturday Night Live...

My fifty-years-on appreciation of Forever Changes, the pixilated masterpiece of Arthur Lee and Love, is up at Critics at Large.

Today at Critics at Large, my review of Nicholas Jennings's Lightfoot, concerning the balladeer who maintained just the right emotional...

On the occasion of Glen Campbell's passing, a tribute. And to complete a kind of circle: here is something I wrote about him three years...