Writings

Selected Reviews, Features, Interviews:

Looking Straight At It: Sinai Vessel Sings Again,” Paste Magazine, 2024

Where Are New York’s All Ages Music Venues?,” Portable Model, 2024

The Comets’ Short-Lived Career Was an ’80s Power Pop Miracle,” Bandcamp Daily, 2024

Joyer’s Slowcore Finds Its Footing on Night Songs,” Paste Magazine, 2024

Final Summer Keeps The Engine Humming for Cloud Nothings,” Paste Magazine, 2024

The cassette-tape comeback has reached Pittsburgh's record stores,” Pittsburgh City Paper, 2024

In Lieu of Flowers Makes Good on the Promise of Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties,” Paste Magazine, 2024

Mr. Roboto Project and Bunker Projects nearly have the funds to purchase their longtime building,” Pittsburgh City Paper, 2024

Music So Loud, Can’t Tell a Thing: Big Star’s Radio City at 50,Paste Magazine, 2024

Edhochuli get ready to sweat it out touring their first album in nine years,” Pittsburgh City Paper, 2024

The surprising tenderness of Jacques Tati’s Trafic,” Washington Square News, 2024

What's the ‘Lady Gaga of Vietnam’ doing here in Pittsburgh?,” Pittsburgh City Paper, 2024

Katy Kirby expands and excites with Blue Raspberry,” Washington Square News, 2024

Post Genre is hoping to solidify the Oakland music scene with a concert series,” WYEP, 2024

You had to be there: Pittsburgh’s early punk scene documented in Erik Bauer’s new book,” WYEP, 2024

Marika Hackman Makes An Astute Left Turn on Big Sigh,” Paste Magazine, 2024

The Sweet East is a freewheeling, antagonistic epic,” Washington Square News, 2023

Speaking in Tongues: Learning to Communicate in Ben Lerner’s Novel ‘The Topeka School’,” Greene Street Review, 2023

Nicolas Cage is everybody’s nightmare in Dream Scenario,” Washington Square News, 2023

Teenage Halloween Succeed at Collecting Pop Punk Turmoil on Till You Return,” Paste Magazine, 2023

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We is Mitski’s steady, Americana experiment,” Washington Square News, 2023

Hurry Catch a Breakthrough on Don’t Look Back,” Paste Magazine, 2023

Jehnie Burns’s Mixtape Nostalgia Traces the History and Appeal of Mixtapes,” WYEP, 2023

Review: Girl with Fish by Feeble Little Horse,” No Ripcord, 2023

On Life Under the Gun, Militarie Gun Arrive Fully Formed,Paste Magazine, 2023

How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a sleek tale of environmental revolution,” Washington Square News, 2023

Album of the Day: Blues Lawyer - All in Good Time,” Bandcamp Daily, 2023

The Top 10 Best AWOLNATION Songs,” Paste Magazine, 2023

Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus Picks His Bandcamp Favorites,” Bandcamp Daily, 2022

Six Bands to Know from Pittsburgh’s Flourishing DIY Scene,” Bandcamp Daily, 2022

The quintessential Jewishness of Bruce Springsteen,” Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, 2022

Lindsey Buckingham’s Satisfying, Solitary Self-Titled Album Is Comfortable Enough,” Paste Magazine, 2021

Car Seat Headrest's Drummer Made His Own Video Game Franchise, Regrets It,” Vice, 2021

I took my rabbi to see Uncut Gems,” Mic, 2020