More than a Mix Tape Maker By Brock Wilbur • June 1st, 2018 It is a weird delight to be able to interview Liz Lawson, who started her career on shows like Dexter and House and True Blood: shows that I consider outstanding more for their licensed tracks than for their original soundtracks.
Exploits Feature Art vs. Artist By Khee Hoon Chan • June 1st, 2018 There comes a point where death is too good for the artist.
A Feel-Good Composer By Brock Wilbur • May 22nd, 2018 Brock Wilbur chats with composer Joel Corelitz about his work.
The Music of War – An Interview With Composer Wilbert Roget By Brock Wilbur • May 17th, 2018 Brock Wilbur chats with composer Wilbert Roget about his career and the process of scoring Call of Duty: WWII.
Rookie of the Year Four Days With First Aid Kit By Matt Marrone • April 26th, 2018 Through analytics, Matt Marrone discovers a favorite album he didn’t realize he had.
The Usurper Noteworthy Metal – April 2018 By Astrid Budgor • April 24th, 2018 Spring is here, so Astrid turns to wintry black metal to ward of the Florida sun.
A Conversation with 2 Mello By Brock Wilbur • April 10th, 2018 Unwinnable grabs a few minutes of 2 Mello’s time to discuss tributes, remixes, games, queer noir and finding success in the infinite expanse of modern internet music.
The Usurper Noteworthy Metal – March 2018 By Astrid Budgor • April 4th, 2018 The latest metal gems unearthed on Bandcamp.
Rest In Power Caleb Scofield By Levi Rubeck • April 4th, 2018 A memorial for Caleb Scofield, bassist of heavy metal crushers Cave In, Old Man Gloom, and Zozobra.
The Usurper Noteworthy Metal – February 2018 By Astrid Budgor • March 14th, 2018 There are no gatekeepers here at The Usurper. Witness: Necronomidol, the most metal thing you’ll hear this month.
Hot Snakes Carves the Surf By Levi Rubeck • March 7th, 2018 Rick Froberg still hollers in the key of vinegar.
Cascading through the Mud with Coalesce and Meatwound By Levi Rubeck • February 28th, 2018 It was orchestrated chaos that kept even the die-hard karate kids in the pit at bay, which is no small feat.
Hamilton is an Eating Disorder Battle Anthem By Ellen Ricks • February 21st, 2018 It was a rough year. Then again, every year is a rough year when you’re slowly committing suicide.
Best of 2017 Unwinnable Listens to the Best Music of 2017 – Finale By Team Unwinnable • January 30th, 2018 The Can You Hang? Challenge is over. This year’s lesson? Even good music can be a punishment.
The Usurper Noteworthy Metal – January 2018 By Astrid Budgor • January 29th, 2018 Introducing The Usurper, in which Astrid Budgor selects quality metal to tear up your ear holes every month.
Best of 2017 Unwinnable Listens to the Best Music of 2017 – Part Three By Team Unwinnable • January 23rd, 2018 The Can You Hang? Challenge proves to be almost too pleasant an experience and two members of Team Unwinnable reveal that they couldn’t hang.
The Cranberries Baseball Association: Remembering Dolores O’Riordan By Matt Marrone • January 16th, 2018 Matt Marrone shares an unusual memory of Dolores O’Riordan, the Cranberries and baseball videogames.
Best of 2017 Unwinnable Listens to the Best Music of 2017 – Part Two By Team Unwinnable • January 15th, 2018 The gang continues to find great new songs during the Can You Hang? Challenge. Has Unwinnable’s collective taste in music gotten better?
Eat the Rich and Dance By Levi Rubeck • January 9th, 2018 What better way to roll out 2018 than immediately accounting for what one may have missed in 2017.
Best of 2017 Unwinnable Listens to the Best Music of 2017 – Part One By Team Unwinnable • January 8th, 2018 Team Unwinnable enters this year’s Best Music gauntlet and finds it…kind of nice? Caution reigns, though: the other, dog poop covered shoe of other people’s taste in music is bound to drop soon.
Rookie of the Year Music Loves, Too By Matt Marrone • December 29th, 2017 You’d think for Twin Peaks super fan Matt Marrone, the soundtrack to the third season would be a shoo-in for his favorite album of the year, but that isn’t the case.
Best of 2017 The Best Music of 2017 By Team Unwinnable • December 28th, 2017 Every year, our Best Music list is the most eclectic. This year, there was barely a consensus at all.
List-O-Mania – December 2017 By Team Unwinnable • December 26th, 2017 All the stuff that filled Team Unwinnable’s free time this month – now with TV and Movie categories!
Battle Jacket The Best Metal Albums of 2017 By Casey Lynch • December 25th, 2017 In the final installment of Battle Jacket (we’ll miss you!), Casey crowns the metal king of 2017.
Unwinnable Presents ChristmApocalypse: The Final Conflict By Team Unwinnable • December 22nd, 2017 Ho-ho-ho. The end is nigh.
The Burnt Offering Stranger Songs By Stu Horvath • December 6th, 2017 With soundtracks, sometimes too much of a good thing can be terrible. Evidence: the in-your-face 80s soundtrack of Stranger Things 2.
List-O-Mania – November 2017 By Team Unwinnable • December 5th, 2017 Books, music and games to help you pass the time as you get ready for the holidays!
Battle Jacket The Best Metal of November 2017 By Casey Lynch • November 28th, 2017 Casey Lynch has his finger on the vein of the best metal of November, and every other month.
California Gothic By Levi Rubeck • November 7th, 2017 Nearly twenty years later, I’m afforded the chance to correct the failings of my youth and catch The Black Heart Procession on tour again
List-O-Rama – October 2017 By Team Unwinnable • October 30th, 2017 On tap for October: tons of great games, music and books.
Return of the Video Dead By Team Unwinnable • October 27th, 2017 Out of the best parts of our old Halloween mixes we have constructed the best Halloween mix and unleashed it on humanity. Beware!
The Ecstatic Solitude of Hollow Knight By Levi Rubeck • October 25th, 2017 While I delight in these various directions and surprises, my most sublime joy in this game is found as I walk the path of the humble insect warrior.
Battle Jacket The Best Metal of October 2017 By Casey Lynch • October 23rd, 2017 Every month is a good month for metal, but October especially so. Here’s our picks for the very best.
Symbiosis of the Troubadour and the Crowd By Levi Rubeck • October 5th, 2017 But Nick Cave and Touché Amoré have earned their fans through honest expressions, powerful storytelling, a willingness to embrace the stains of humanity in order to shine light on our virtues.
List-O-Mania – September 2017 By Team Unwinnable • September 29th, 2017 Team Unwinnable’s got some recommendations for ya…
Aren’t You Glad to Be An American? By Levi Rubeck • September 26th, 2017 A light shone on the gout-riddled veterans of pleasure above and a tribute to the mad oracles living in a Lovecraftian nightmare of our own making below.
Battle Jacket The Best Metal of September 2017 By Casey Lynch • September 26th, 2017 Casey Lynch delivers the best blistering metal of September.
Choir of the Mind, ASMR of the Soul By Levi Rubeck • September 19th, 2017 Playlists, mixes, links IM’d by friends, auto-plays based on cookies, and radio, each a tributary spiraling out in serpentines towards and through the larger rivers of our shared musical canon.
Rookie of the Year Folk Yea, Twitter! By Matt Marrone • September 6th, 2017 The Rookie of the Year has the time of his life pestering performers at the Newport Folk Festival on Twitter.
Helping Ted Leo Help Himself By Levi Rubeck • September 5th, 2017 Perhaps I took Ted for granted, assuming he’d always tear through town again either on the festival footpath or in an Allston living room.
