Totally Generic Best of 2025 By Natasha Ochshorn • January 14th, 2026 The most sustained joy I got this year was mainlining old seasons of Top Chef while I packed and moved and unpacked apartments.
Don't Stop Believing How Art Helped Me in 2025 By Elijah Beahm • January 8th, 2026 We might not even realize it as it happens, but what we engage with shapes us.
Noise Complaint Exploring Black Metal Ecstasy With Agriculture By Ben Sailer • January 5th, 2026 Agriculture call themselves “ecstatic black metal.” Believe it or not, that isn’t a contradiction of terms.
Noah's Beat Box A Lynchpin By Noah Springer • December 16th, 2025 “How,” you may ask yourself, “did Noah, music critic of a sort, make it to almost 40 years and never run across this incredibly influential band?”
Sixty Years Past the Eve of Destruction By Alex W. DeJong • October 29th, 2025 There was a very real possibility that everything might end, and it might all be caused by a mistake.
Rookie of the Year The Ballad of Matt’s Island By Matt Marrone • October 9th, 2025 I’m weaving elements of comedy and horror together as I pass along.
Noise Complaint The Deftones Are the Weirdest Metal Band on Earth By Ben Sailer • September 30th, 2025 The Deftones have influenced everyone, but no one sounds exactly like the Deftones. That’s because their improbable career trajectory is impossible to follow.
Casting Deep Meteo Beau Navire and the Returning Bloom By Levi Rubeck • September 17th, 2025 I keep thinking I’ve aged out of this madness, and in most ways I have, largely unwilling to ask a punk for directions anymore.
Noise Complaint Exploring the Miraculous Existence of Grails By Ben Sailer • August 29th, 2025 Instrumental rock band Grails have released a studio album that’s impossible to perform live. Somehow, it’s decisions like this that have defined their success.
Mind Palaces Wor(l)dplay By Maddi Chilton • July 31st, 2025 I want to be clear that the vast majority of the time I have no idea what the members of KAJ are talking about.
