Jack White’s a fascinating guy…. if a confusing, conflicting kinda dude. My cover story for Beat? It’s here.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Mastodon feature (beat + brag)
Few things make me happier than a new Mastodon record. One of those things is writing about Mastodon. Which I did. For the fourth time. Here for Beat. And here (and below), for the print edition of Brag.
Power Ranking Soundgarden’s Superunknown 20 Years Later (fasterlouder)
Growing up, I loved Soundgarden. Like, loved them in the way a fat kid loves candy, or the way a gorilla sometimes loves a kitty. Few bands spoke to a hyperactive little redheaded kid the way the Seattle band’s mix of power and darkness did. For a kid just figuring out how to do ‘brooding’ properly, they were a godsend.
So it was cool that I got to Power Rank each of Superunknown’s songs 20 years later for Fasterlouder. Find it here.
2014 Governors Ball, NYC – The Vine
The 2014 Governors Ball in NYC? It was nuts. So I wrote about it. Exhaustively.
Here’s what happened, along with all the Governors Ball award winners for 2014.
(I also took photos of roughly a million of the bands that played; here’s a few)
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