Guest Essays

Somewhere Inside I Wanted To Smile Again

The Beatles: 'Dear Prudence' + Silence, secrets, and lies + The desire to shrink + The desire to live

Oct 29

Getting At The Shape Of Loneliness

Neil Young: 'Hey Hey, My My' + Going nowhere + Becoming something

Oct 22 •

Conjured and Dismissed

Fiction (!) from Garth Greenwell. John Taverner: 'Westron Wynde Mass' + Staff/patient bonding in hospital + That sense only non-sense can convey

Oct 15

Time Travel Is Painful

Oasis: 'Wonderwall' + Cairo to Hull (and back again) + Pangalactic Gargleblasters (on ice)

Oct 8 •

Don't It Make You Feel Alive?

LCD Soundsystem: 'Get Innocuous!' + Dancing all night + Sparks + Rail whiskey + Sunrise and regret

Aug 28 •

Mexico Rock City

Café Tacvba: 'Chilanga Banda'

Aug 13 •

Tell It And Think It And Speak It And Breathe It

Bob Dylan: 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' + being 14 + ugly basement remodels circa 1970

Jul 30 •

Suddenly I Could See A Future

Nicola Miller + The Beatles: 'I Will' + Our parents' cassettes + Our kids' lullabies + Chasing vocal resonance control

Jul 16

Self-Deprecation of the Aging Horndog

Ed Park + The Who: 'You Better You Bet' + Taping pop from Buffalo AM radio in 1981 + MindMeld 2052

Jul 8

I Was Still The Person On The Outside

Backstreet Boys: 'I Want It That Way'

Jun 18 •

How We Break Each Other's Hearts

Nina Simone: 'Isn't It A Pity?'

Jun 12 •

Spinning On That Dizzy Edge

The Cure: 'Just Like Heaven'

Jun 4 •

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