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  This week I interviewed Eyedress for Spin and also wrote about the Pogues for the Deep Cut Friday column. 

  a)  "Untamed" I feel like Netflix has pinned their hopes on The Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith being their Taylor Sheridan ...

1. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Phantom Island King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard has been so prolific for so long now that it...

  I wrote a Stereogum piece about Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits , which just turned 20. My favorite reaction to the article is from someon...

This week on Spin, I ranked Black Sabbath's albums (R.I.P. Ozzy). I also ranked Paramore's albums , and wrote about an early Billy ...

  a)  Sinners This is one of those rare occasions I kinda wish I had gotten out to see this in the theater, but it was great at home too. Ry...

  The August 19th release date of my book Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is just a month away now, and Stereogum  has publ...

  For this week's Deep Cut Friday , I wrote about "Rocket Queen" by Guns N' Roses. 

1. Sabrina Carpenter - "Manchild"  As someone who always had mixed feelings about "Please Please Please," I rolled my ey...

  The S.O.S. Band's catalog returned to streaming services in April to celebrate the 45th anniversary of their debut single "Take Y...

  a)  "Too Much" Lena Dunham is more talented as a writer than as a performer, but making someone else the lead actor in her proje...

Cassowary Records · western blot - hit em: impossible   I made a hit em version of the "Mission: Impossible" theme , rest in peac...

  For this week's Deep Cut Friday , I wrote about the My Chemical Romance song that Gerard Way said should have been on The Black Parade...

  I previously announced that my book Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music will be out on August 19th, and this week there is a...

  a)  The Ballad of Wallis Island Director James Griffiths and actor/writers Tim Key and Tom Basden made an award-winning short film in 2007...

  Debbie Harry just turned 80, so I wrote about Blondie's "Fade Away and Radiate" for Deep Cut Friday . Also for Spin this wee...

1. Ben Kweller - Cover The Mirrors Ben Kweller is a few months older than me, and when we were both 15 and I was playing in my first garage ...

  I've previously done this for the 2010s , the 1990s , and the 1980s -- taking all my lists of favorite albums for each years of those...