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Douglas Wolk

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Articles: 366

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.

Douglas Wolk Archive

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Discover: Don Giovanni Record…

[Introduce yourself to Don Giovanni's roster with a free 11-track sampler… more »

Interview: Local Natives

L.A.’s Local Natives have had a turbulent few years. After the 2009… more »

Who Are…FIDLAR

The name FIDLAR is an acronym for a truism West Coast skate-punks quote i… more »

Various Artists, Hot French C…

The French yé-yé scene of the ’60s had a handful of relat… more »

The Who, Live at Hull…

The evening in February, 1970, after the Who played the show immortalized… more »

The Primitives, Echoes and Rh…

The Primitives’ first incarnation, in the late ’80s, was an e… more »

Propaganda, A Secret Wish…

The German synth-pop group Propaganda was never the stablest group … more »

2012 in Review: Five Rules fo…

There’s a quietly telling scene in Young Adult, last year’s C… more »

Who Are…Parquet Courts

One of the most thrilling debuts of the year, Parquet Courts’ Light… more »

Vic Godard, The End of the Su…

In 1976, Vic Godard was the leader of one of the first British punk rock … more »

Who Are…ERAAS

From 1999-2011, Robert Toher led the atmospheric post-rock band Apse, but… more »

The 10 Best Dylan Songs You D…

Half a century into his career, Bob Dylan’s amassed a gigantic cata… more »

Twerps, Twerps

This Melbourne, Australia, quartet makes no secret of what inspires them:… more »

Discover: Up Records

Most of the great indie-rock labels of the ’80s and ’90s were… more »

Built to Spill, There’s…

The second album by Doug Martsch’s long-running band is a declarati… more »

Juned, Every Night for You…

A remarkable document of an odd moment in Seattle’s music, Juned… more »

Land of the Loops, Bundle of …

Up’s roster was mostly artists from the Pacific Northwest, but not … more »

Modest Mouse, The Lonesome Cr…

Modest Mouse were already experienced road warriors by the time they rele… more »

Quasi, Featuring “Birds…

The duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss nailed their sound on this record … more »

A Beginner’s Guide to F…

Somehow, Firewater has passed a lot of people by. (I was one of them, unt… more »

Mission of Burma, Unsound…

Mission of Burma made exactly one full-length studio album before they to… more »

Mount Eerie, Clear Moon…

Phil Elverum almost never writes a song that’s entirely its own thi… more »

This Is Your Life: Mike Watt

One of the treasures of American punk rock, Mike Watt has been pounding t… more »

Icon: Pulp

Some artists take a while to find their mature voice, and few have taken … more »

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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal

By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor

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 »

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