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My job isn't to judge the value of art—
>> my job is to try to get you closer to what >you< would think.
If you can read what I wrote and get around my opinion
>> then I've done my job.
If I can get around my own opinion when write what I write
>> then I've done an even better job.
I don't always succeed, but that's the job description
>> as I see it.
^ You can browse my archives of published clips at:
Bandcamp | Billboard | Brave Words | Consequence | Democrat & Chronicle | Diffuser | Nashville Scene | Noisey | Paste | Pitchfork | PopMatters | Revolver | SPIN | Ultimate Classic Rock | my Muck Rack profile
^ my latest:
Genghis Tron Dream Weapon album review ^ PopMatters
Death From Above 1979 Is For Lovers album review ^ Paste
25 Years Ago: Stone Temple Pilots Show Their True Range With Tiny Music ^ Ultimate Classic Rock
10 Vintage Concert Posters On Wolfgang's Vault ^ Paste
10 Retro Concert T-Shirts On Wolfgang's Vault ^ Paste
Eyehategod A History Of Nomadic Behavior review ^ Consequence
The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings review ^ PopMatters
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Carnage review ^ Paste
Melvins Working With God review ^ Paste
Van Halen album by album (Women and Children First, OU812, Balance) ^ Consequence
Weezer OK Human review ^ PopMatters
Martin Gore The Third Chimpanzee review ^ Paste
Sleaford Mods Spare Ribs review ^ Paste
Interview: Dystopian Party Grind—Mitch Harris discusses his status with Napalm Death and the strangely prophetic debut album by his new project Brave The Cold ^ Outburn
Sigur Rós Odin's Raven Magic reivew ^ Paste
Tristan Perich Drift Multiply album review ^ PopMatters
AC/DC album by album (Power Up, Fly On The Wall, For Those About To Rock, Let There Be Rock) ^ Consequence
Wilco Summerteeth deluxe reissue review ^ Paste
25 Albums We Love From 1990 (Uncle Tupelo's No Depression, Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, and Jane's Addiction's Ritual de lo Habitual) ^ Paste
White Riot film review/feature: When Punk Took-On The National Front ^ PopMatters
Tears For Fears Seeds Of Love deluxe reissue review ^ Paste
Tallah Matriphagy album review ^ PopMatters
Liqud Flesh Recaptures the Fun of B-Movie Cinema and Early Death Metal ^ Bandcamp
Public Enemy What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? album review ^ PopMatters
Thelonious Monk Palo Alto album review ^ Paste
40 All-Time Opening Tracks From Debut Albums (Van Halen's Runnin' With The Devil) ^ Paste
Deftones Ohms album review ^ PopMatters
Napalm Death Throes Of Joy In The Throes Of Defeatism album review ^ PopMatters
Joni Mitchell album by album (The Hissing Of Summer Lawns) ^ Paste
Lo Tom LP2 album review ^ Paste
Doves The Universal Want album review ^ PopMatters
Jaga Jazzist Pyramid album review ^ Paste
20 Years Ago Deftones Unleash White Pony ^ Consequence
Neil Young Homegrown album review ^ Paste
Drab City Good Songs For Bad People album review ^ Paste
Thundercat It Is What It Is album review ^ Paste
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts V + VI album review ^ Paste
Stone Temple Pilots Perdida album review ^ Paste
Spoony Bard Old Friends album review ^ Paste
Cherubs Immaculada High album review ^ Paste
R.E.M. Monster deluxe reissue review ^ Paste
Jon Zazula on autobiography, Megaforce Records ^ Billboard (paysite only)
Alcest Fuses Black-Metal Dissonance with Alt-Rock Guitar Orchestration ^ Billboard
Motorhead 1979 reissue box set spotlight ^ Billboard
Battles Juice B Crypts album review ^ Paste
Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Dots And Loops, Cobra And Phases deluxe reissues review ^ Paste
Chelsea Wolfe Birth Of Violence album review ^ Paste
Lower Dens The Competition album review ^ Paste
Nirvana Live And Loud album review ^ Paste
Tool Fear Inoculum album review ^ Paste
Tool—Why Fans Still Collectively Lose Their Minds ^ Consequence
Sacred Reich—How Thrash Firebrands Rallied for First LP in Over 20 Years ^ Bandcamp
Raphael Saadiq Jimmy Lee album review ^ Paste
Interview: Faith No More's Roddy Bottum on new project Nastie Band ^ Billboard
A Moment Of Clarity—The Ambient Black Metal Label with an Environmental Consciousness ^ Bandcamp
Tycho Weather album review ^ Paste
Metz Automat album review ^ Paste
Jeff Tweedy Warmer album review ^ Paste
Torche Premieres Track Off New Album Admission (feature story w/ interview) ^ Billboard
House And Land Want to Make Folk Music Weirder ^ Bandcamp
Interview: Perry Farrell Wants to Take You to Heaven—No, Really ^ Billboard (paysite only)
^^^ lots more to come!
^ writing
^ interviews
^ etc
^ by SABY RK