Writing

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

CITY MAGAZINE
The Oscars love disability stories, but it’s complicated
Local arts organizations lost federal funding in 2025. What’s next?
A void in the local music scene
Joywave: Rochester is a grand old city
A veggie burger tour of Rochester
Interview: Alex Ross Perry on Pavement
Profile: The Mountain Goats’ Peter Hughes
Profile: Folk music legend John Dady
Profile: Sasami on her Rochester roots
Los Lonely Boys return after family tragedy
Rochester’s Cronkite signs off
Ride the lighting with Clay Patrick McBride
ArtisanWorks: a museum of life out loud
Alice Cazenave’s plant-based chemistry
POV: Two Best Frenz invite you to the mall

INTERVIEWS
Jeff Rosenstock
Strand of Oaks
Real Estate
Wild Pink
Dogma

MTV NEWS ARCHIVE
Dua Lipa’s technicolor dream
Linkin Park keep looking to the sky
COVID reporting: 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
John Mayer’s ode to post-9/11 NYC: ‘Covered in Rain’

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)
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)