Douglas Wolk writes about pop music and comic books for Time, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Wired and elsewhere. He’s the author of Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean and Live at the Apollo. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and sings karaoke every chance he gets.
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[Introduce yourself to Don Giovanni's roster with a free 11-track sampler… more »
L.A.’s Local Natives have had a turbulent few years. After the 2009… more »
The name FIDLAR is an acronym for a truism West Coast skate-punks quote i… more »
The French yé-yé scene of the ’60s had a handful of relat… more »
The evening in February, 1970, after the Who played the show immortalized… more »
The Primitives’ first incarnation, in the late ’80s, was an e… more »
The German synth-pop group Propaganda was never the stablest group … more »
There’s a quietly telling scene in Young Adult, last year’s C… more »
One of the most thrilling debuts of the year, Parquet Courts’ Light… more »
In 1976, Vic Godard was the leader of one of the first British punk rock … more »
From 1999-2011, Robert Toher led the atmospheric post-rock band Apse, but… more »
Half a century into his career, Bob Dylan’s amassed a gigantic cata… more »
This Melbourne, Australia, quartet makes no secret of what inspires them:… more »
Most of the great indie-rock labels of the ’80s and ’90s were… more »
The second album by Doug Martsch’s long-running band is a declarati… more »
A remarkable document of an odd moment in Seattle’s music, Juned… more »
Up’s roster was mostly artists from the Pacific Northwest, but not … more »
Modest Mouse were already experienced road warriors by the time they rele… more »
The duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss nailed their sound on this record … more »
Somehow, Firewater has passed a lot of people by. (I was one of them, unt… more »
Mission of Burma made exactly one full-length studio album before they to… more »
Phil Elverum almost never writes a song that’s entirely its own thi… more »
Spanning nearly 50 years, this overview of a singer who was more or less … more »
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »
