Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches

I've spent the last 19 months or so working on a book about Ween. The result, focusing on and named after the Chocolate and Cheese albu...

Pazz and Jop 2010 is live. Here is my ballot : The album list is the same as the one I filed for Time Out , but the singles list is new. Ph...

Watching Dan Weiss play drums from about four feet away at Cornelia St. Café last night, I kept thinking about a book. As a drummer, I'm...

Pictured (left to right): Loren Stillman, Nate Radley, Gary Versace and Ted Poor of Bad Touch. Via The Volume , a list of the five best sets...

[UPDATE: This post has elicited a number of insightful responses, some of which you'll find in the comments below. Howard Mandel has sha...

Like The Five Year Plan , Tim Berne's second album, 7x —recorded about nine months later, in January of 1980, with a similar supporting ...

Lately, in my recreational listening time, I've been spinning little else but Tim Berne—a not-at-all unusual scenario. Though I'm lo...

The Bad Plus opened at the Village Vanguard last night (they're there through Sunday ) and I caught the late set. As expected, it was g...

A list of my top ten albums of 2010 is up now on the TONY site, along with choices from my esteemed colleagues. Following are a few though...

[Update, December 2018: I've created a slightly revised/updated version of this survey as a Spotify playlist, which you ...