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