Updated 12/13/2025

The news that Peter Jackson will be assembling a new version of the Beatles' Get Back-Let It Be footage is interesting and exciting....

The third installment in my pre-Halloween series: Robert M. Coates, parallel reality, and the ghost story without ghosts.

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.