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Copywriter, music journalist and bio writer based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Bylines at Paste Magazine, Stereogum, Pitchfork, SPIN, Billboard, GRAMMY.com, Bandcamp Daily, Flood Magazine, Cleveland Scene.
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Music Journalism
Meet our new Band To Watch and hear new single "Dull Customer."
The Portland band’s third album, You Wanna Fade?, navigates disorienting life changes and expands their twinkly soundworld.
Meet the altruistic young guns hellbent on making the Rust Belt town a cultural epicenter and building community in the process
The death of the album has been proclaimed many times, and after decades of piracy and point-and-click listening, cohesive bodies of work have indeed lost some of their cultural stature. Yet the long player remains a meaningful art form, the gold standard breathlessly anticipated by fan bases across the genre spectrum.
It’s no secret that humanity is in its flop era. Microplastics quite literally live rent-free in our brains, health insurance companies are using AI to deny your grandmother’s nursing home stay, and ham-fisted, power-tripping cops are shooting people over $3 subway fares.
Is playing a show to 13 people in a laundromat worth it? Do Mr. Krabs and Peter Griffin have more musical hot takes? Has the American contemporary experimental music scene lost its edge? Are glitchy hyperpop production, ubiquitous samples, and goofy '90s pop-rock effective devices for rigorous, high-concept art, or do tongue-in-cheek, doomscroll-evoking sound collages now feel cynical or dated?
The defiant spirit of bands like Pere Ubu lives on in today's Cleveland rabblerousers.
In a 1905 essay titled "Street Music," Virginia Woolf mused on how oppressive societal norms suffocate the human need for self-expression and deprive us of life's natural rhythms. In railing against the common disdain for street musicians, she wrote, "We have trained ourselves to such perfection of civilisation that expression of any kind has something almost indecent - certainly irreticent - about it."
There's nothing wishy-washy about Wishy. Indianapolis singer-songwriters Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites are magnets of indelible melodies and purveyors of beatific dream pop - the kind that pairs perfectly with the crackles and pops of a cassette player and implants a desire to briefly shapeshift into a flowy-haired nymph and twirl around.
What do Madison, Wisconsin and Manchester, England have in common? Superficially, maybe nothing, besides the odd fact that you could get away with a cheery "Believe you me!" in both places. But in reality, both destinations share core values and a somewhat parallel history.
Los Angeles singer/songwriter Cory Hanson's third solo album Western Cum is a fiery ode to the electric guitar.
MSPAINT's debut album 'Post-American' is a seething synth-punk rallying cry.
The Tubs exist at the intersection of several concurrent crises — urban decay, the housing crisis, the mental health epidemic, the gig economy and the devaluation of the arts, just to name a few.
Hear "Split" from the new LP, out in October on Lame-O Records.
It all started with an A4-sized piece of paper. It was posted in a London shop window, and it advertised a "must-see property": a detached, five-bedroom house for rent. The house was nestled in between the East and West Reservoirs in Woodberry Down, so the words "has lake" were scrawled on the page in pencil.
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
Gaz Coombes and Mick Quinn discuss the live return of Supergrass, the prospect of new material, and their unlikely friendship with Foo Fighters.
The Chicago post-punk quartet's jittery second album rails against gentrification, algorithmic overload, and the bankruptcy of life under an extractive system.
California musician Christopher Adams fuses shoegaze, house music, breakbeats, and hip-hop into an ever-morphing sound world as complex and irreducible as grief.
The Madison, Wisconsin band's second album melds 1960s pop melodies and '90s indie rock distortion into feel-good tunes rich in existential angst.
Four years after their debut, the D.C. band regroups as a duo for a more electronic guitar-pop album that keeps their preternatural sense of melody but sands down a few of their more unique touches.
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
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