Aretha Franklin and the Price of Excellence By Malindy Hetfeld • September 10th, 2018 I was punished for telling my high school music teacher to take Aretha Franklin’s name out of his undeserving mouth.
Mixed CDs, Stolen By Amanda Hudgins • July 13th, 2018 14 disks in their slimline cases, carefully handwritten descriptions of each song — no more than 2 per artist. 100 songs.
We Hate Everyone: How Type O Negative Changed Music By Diego Nicolás Argüello • April 13th, 2018 Type O Negative didn’t care for anyone, something they were always implying in every song. Crying babies, torture machinery sounds, more moanings that I’ve ever heard in my entire life.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Come Sail Away, Mr. Roboto: future of the left and the Passion of the Medley By Levi Rubeck • August 29th, 2017 future of the left have constructed this one around a song by their former band not simply out of obligation to their frothing followers, but because it’s fun to play.
