greatest rock songs of the 21st century off dome: Lottery Noises, DD/KW, Jumpers, Like I Used To, A More Perfect Union, Drunk II, Mexican Wine, She's Leaving You, I Can't Give Everything Away, Wasted Days, It Just Doesn't Happen, Portions for Foxes, I Don't Live Here Anymore
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Everyone I know wants their partner be a reader. I dug into this – and that dating app aimed at literary folks – for The Washington Post:
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Teenage Fanclub has written some of my all-time favorite songs, which is why it brings me no pleasure to write that their latest, Do Not Dare to Dream, is their drowsiest affair yet. I wrote about it for Pitchfork:
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Stef Chura has one of my favorite voices in rock music. I wrote about her new record for Pitchfork:
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Ethan Beck retweeted
It's been 30 years since Pinkerton, but more importantly, it's been 10 years since I interviewed a 13-year-old music critic about Weezer... who grew up to become Beloved Writer @ethangordonbeck
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thinking about this 2016 interview @zzzzaaaacccchhh did with a then-13-year-old music critic who ranked Weezer albums with absolute, 100% accuracy
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first time in the Baffler, writing about the great CHRONOVISOR and other archival odysseys by Ricky D'Ambrose and Sofia Bohdanowicz; hauntology; Robert Caro's reinvention of "On Exactitude in Science" from first principles; old magazines and gothic libraries
The montage is the method in a new spate of films in which subtitles fill the frame, magazine articles are reproduced, and archival research overwhelms reality itself. According to @MarkAschParody, they have all the trippiness of a midnight Wiki-hole.
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I spoke to flip phone users, attention activists, event organizers, some Luddites and many others in New York's tech-skeptical community for this article about the lead up to the Summer of Ludd festival in The Washington Post.
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Thanks to the excellent reporting of @simonwilliam in Rolling Stone, we learned today that the Summer of Ludd made it as far as the Geese practice space. Rock bands – they're just like us!
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Graceland turns 40 on Tuesday. It's one of the great midlife crisis albums, divorce albums, white-guy-gets-into-African-music albums. I interviewed Ashley Kahn, author of a new book about the record, about how it got made and the backlash for The Guardian: theguardian.com/music/2026/aug…
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We tried to find the song of the summer by digging into Spotify data. Worth a read: washingtonpost.com/style/interact…
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It's real. My book "When the Sun Hits: The High-Volume History of Shoegaze" is now available for pre-order. Out March 30, 2027 via @StMartinsPress
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For the past few years, I've wondered why it seems like everyone wants to work with Andrew Watt.
I spent some time with him, spoke to Michael Stipe and Ronnie Wood, and emailed questions to Dua Lipa to find an answer for The Washington Post:
I spent some time with him, spoke to Michael Stipe and Ronnie Wood, and emailed questions to Dua Lipa to find an answer for The Washington Post:
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My colleagues at the Washington Post and I put together this list of the 25 most influential American cultural works. I wrote about Robert Johnson, Thriller, and was thrilled to get Whole Lotta Red on there as an honorable mention. washingtonpost.com/style/interact…
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