Greg Lehman – Rock has never been “dead.” It just keeps getting pieced and parceled out by marketing departments in small windowless offices to better identify how to sell music.
Matt Ashworth – Though we haven’t consistently written about movies for a decade, I still ask contributors to share their favorites each year. It’s like having a super smart, diverse group of people as a personal focus group when you’re loading up your Netflix and Amazon Prime queues for the next few years.
R. Sterling – Nineteen years on, let’s sit back and contemplate the “Britpop Wars.” Simply put, Damon Albarn won.
Andy Bookwalter – May 16, 1988. Olympia, Washington. I am doing something groovy, probably trying to fold my harem pants or getting animal beer stains out of a puffy shirt.
Ian Cunningham – T’was the night before Thanksgiving and Sturgill Simpson played to a sold out house at the Tractor Tavern. For those unfamiliar, Sturgill Simpson is a classic country-style singer from Kentucky who has been referred to as “the savior of the genre.”
