Humanizing The Vacuum

My last Stylus essay . It's been a great three + years. Although I was a published music critic already, Stylus legitimized what had ess...

"A tropical entropy seemed to prevail," Joan Didion wrote in Miami , "defeating grand schemes even as they were realized....

Simon Reynolds has the best short obit (dovetailing with a run of less than cheerful dispatches on the state of music and music writing, a ...

As the world of rockcrit knows by now, Stylus will cease publication this week. I have a lot of thoughts I haven't sorted yet which I ma...

Since I don't suck on Hollywood hambone too often, I looked forward to watching Mr. Brooks . Not a good idea when the writer/directors ...

Let's hope I never have to write about Madonna again. This is as personal as I get . A reminder that old habits don't die hard -- th...

Good Neil Young albums begin with throwaway openings that are nevertheless lots of fun; you could fill a dandy quarter of a CD-R with Sleeps...

I like Kevin John Bozelka a lot. The best bit of (seemingly) tossed-off criticism this week. I always thought "I Want It That Way"...

CRS (Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Pharell) - "Us Placers" Keyshia Cole - "Got To Get My Heart Back" Radiohead - "All I ...

Until I read this today, I'd wrestled for months on how to articulate the tuneful horribleness of Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are...

This is encouraging .