Noise Complaint 12 Records I’ve Made the Time to Listen to So Far in 2023 By Ben Sailer • August 3rd, 2023 Feeling that 2023 is flying by too quickly, Ben stops to reflect on the music that has provided his soundtrack for the year to date.
Noise Complaint Learning the Hard Way With Lucero By Ben Sailer • July 6th, 2023 Lucero’s music has always had two speeds: “I’m going to party hard” and “I shouldn’t have partied that hard.”
Noise Complaint Black Metal Mythmaking, Gatekeeping, and Points In Between By Ben Sailer • May 31st, 2023 Black metal musicians have long used secrecy and controversy to generate notoriety.
Screening Calls with GAMETHING’s David Wolinsky and Pippin Barr By Ben Sailer • May 5th, 2023 “I think that’s the joy of what we’re doing, it’s like a crock pot for ideas about games that otherwise you would just totally zoom past if you have to be like, ‘Here’s my here’s my final judgment.'”
Noise Complaint Calling In a Noise Complaint By Ben Sailer • April 26th, 2023 After four and a half years of writing the Collision Detection column, Ben starts something new by going back to something old.
Collision Detection Light the Beam By Ben Sailer • April 5th, 2023 As a lapsed and reformed Sacramento Kings fan, Ben learns that sometimes backing a loser is the winningest thing you can do.
Collision Detection Learning to Love Roguelikes with Deathloop By Ben Sailer • March 7th, 2023 Ben plays Deathloop and finally gets roguelikes, showing that sometimes all it takes for a genre to click is a change of context and perspective.
