Writing

STEREOGUM
Q&A: Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard
Review: Jason Isbell’s Weathervanes
Review: Jeff Rosenstock’s HELLMODE
Jonathan Richman invited everyone to the party

CITY MAGAZINE
Interview: Alex Ross Perry (‘Pavement fans would have been going to the video store’)
Profile: The Mountain Goats’ Peter Hughes
Los Lonely Boys return after family tragedy
The Irish Rover
A void in the local music scene
Rochester’s Cronkite signs off
Garden variety
Ride the lighting
A museum of life out loud
Plant-based chemistry
Horn of plenty
A grand old city
POV: Two Best Frenz invite you to the mall

INTERVIEWS
Jeff Rosenstock
Strand of Oaks
Real Estate
Wild Pink

MTV NEWS ARCHIVES
Dua Lipa’s technicolor dream
Linkin Park keep looking to the sky
The show must go online
Andy Shauf at the Halloween store
Pinegrove write about adventure for the homebodies
Alone, together: the rising sound of self-love
Ratboys are the poet laureates of the college dorm
How Smash Mouth’s “All Star” launched a thousand memes
Jeff Rosenstock is worrying productively
Westerman makes folk-pop tinged with longing
Sylvan Esso and the art of disassembly
Fire Is Motion are so much more than ‘too many’ guitarists
The end of Oliver Tree as we know him
Frances Quinlan paints a self-portrait
Wild Pink is bigger than Christmas
When Steve from Blue’s Clues made an album with a Flaming Lips member

ESSAYS
The comforting allure of a bad photo (The Outline)
Rap, rock and remixes: Linkin Park’s Reanimation at 15 (Billboard)
One year ago, I went to England to see One Direction (Medium)
Kurt Vile: Wakin on a Pretty Day (Popscenery)
Wrote about my top five Oasis songs (Hell World)
Dave Matthews Band (One Week // One Band)

TRIBUTES
Alex Trebek made Jeopardy! just by showing up (MTV News)
Ric Ocasek wrote the songs you love (MTV News)
Chester Bennington and the thrill of a first favorite band (MTV News)

IN PRINT
A concert at the end of the world (Portable Model)
Perennial (No Earbuds Vol. 2)
Pearl Jam’s “Wishlist” (Lyrics As Poetry Vol. 3)
Cover story: Perfect Pussy (Syracuse New Times)