writing
MUSIC
FEATURES
City Pages: Honeydogs frontman Adam Levy grappling with his son’s suicide, Rhymesayers’ Soundset marking its 5th anniversary, Soul Asylum’s Dave Pirner, Owl City, Brother Ali, Picked 2 Click (The Chalice in 2012, Lizzo in 2013, Allan Kingdom in 2014), the Replacements’ reunion in Toronto, Year in Music (Low, Jeremy Messersmith), an oral history of 89.3 the Current, Minneapolis’ new venue earplugs ordinance, Poliça, and Midway Stadium’s concert history. (I will link to my City Pages work here when the archive is back online.)
New Times: Both were about music cruises. The first one was about the Bruise Cruise, which featured an assortment of garage rock bands. The other was coverage of the very first Kiss Kruise.
INTERVIEWS
Minnesota Monthly: Lizzo, (J.S.) Ondara, Thomas Abban, Dessa
Rolling Stone: Battles, Andrew W.K., Cigarettes After Sex, Superorganism, This is the Kit, Declan McKenna, Barns Courtney, Lo Moon, Capital Cities, Alice Merton, Middle Kids, Lewis Del Mar, Seratones, Street Sects, The Skins, Cherry Glazerr, Roman GianArthur, Missio, Magic Giant, Code Orange, Big Jesus, Minor Victories, Catfish & the Bottlemen (twice)
Paste: Silver Jews, Phantogram, Best Coast, Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo
Revolver: Toothgrinder, Street Sects
Village Voice Media: Bright Eyes
LIVE REVIEWS
The Current: Rock the Garden 2022
Bring Me The News: U2 at U.S. Bank Stadium, LCD Soundsystem at Roy Wilkins Auditorium,
Lana Del Rey at Target Center
Rolling Stone: Lollapalooza in Chicago, Jay-Z’s Decode book release in Miami
City Pages: Many, many, many that I will add when the archive is back online.
New Times: Taylor Swift at BankAtlantic Center, Vampire Weekend at Fillmore Miami, Lil Wayne at BankAtlantic Center, Lady Gaga at BankAtlantic Center, Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae at Fillmore Miami, Jay-Z and Kanye West (Watch the Throne) at BankAtlantic Center
ALBUM REVIEWS
The Current: Beach House - Once Twice Melody, Various Artists - I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground and Nico, Low - Hey What, Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life
Alternative Press: Beck - Morning Phase, Metz - Metz, The Walkmen - Heaven, Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits, The Drums - Portamento, Man Man - Life Fantastic, Title Tracks - In Blank, Simian Mobile Disco - Delicacies, Sleigh Bells - Treats, The Most Serene Republic - …And The Ever Expanding Universe
Paste: MF Doom - Born Like This, Wavves - Wavvves, Sholi - Sholi, Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6: A Tribute to…, Franz Nicolay - Major General, Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna, Human Highway - Moody Motorcycle, PAS/CAL - I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura, Ratatat - LP3,
Village Voice: Animal Collective - Water Curses EP, Dr. Dog - Fate, Pink - Funhouse, The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Horse Feathers - House With No Home
ESSAYS
Village Voice: Why Everyone’s Streaming Music and Everybody’s Happy
The Current: The "Chaise Longue" effect: Inside Wet Leg's surprise hit
LISTS
Rolling Stone: The 40 Greatest One-Album Wonders, hair metal, country songs, country albums, sketch comedy shows, the MTV VMAs and VMAs opening performances, one-album wonders, Coachella, SXSW, anticipated albums of 2016, prog rock albums, Fleetwood Mac songs not by Fleetwood Mac, rock albums every country fan should own, the 100 best singles of 1984
Minnesota Monthly
TRAVEL
The New Grand Marais: Modern Vacations on the North Shore, Prince’s Mystique Lives on at Paisley Park, How to Spend a Winter Weekend in Northfield, Driftlessly Devoted to Lanesboro
INTERVIEWS
Comedian Maria Bamford, author Marlon James, furniture designer Concrete Pig, T-Wolves Gamng star Michael “BearDaBeast” Key, phenom teen chef Spencer Venancio (as well as his mentor Gavin Kaysen), HealthPartners occupational medicine physician Dr. Zeke J. McKinney, Askov Finlayson’s Eric Dayton, and Rose Street Patisserie’s John Kraus and Elizabeth Rose.
ESSAYS & EDITOR’S NOTES
Why a Bryant Lake Bowl Drone Video Bowled Us Over, We Are Becoming a Masked Nation, What We Read When We Read About George Floyd, If These Walls Could Talk (editor’s note about visiting my grandfather’s childhood home in Duluth), Saluting Birchwood Cafe’s Savory Waffle, Minnesota’s Natural Beauty Isn’t Set in Stone, Neighborhood Gem: Deming Heights Park in Minneapolis