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.
The duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss nailed their sound on this record … more »
This 2010 set is the closest post-2000 Fall has come to approximating the… more »
Tromatic Reflexxions, the terrific album Mark E. Smith made with the memb… more »
Undercutting themselves is one of the Fall’s specialties, and this … more »
Undercutting themselves is one of the Fall’s specialties, and this … more »
The revitalized, Brix-enhanced Fall lineup of 1996 roars out of the gate … more »
The ’90s were a rough time for the Fall, with extensive lineup chur… more »
The Fall’s new guitarist in 1995 was the last person most of their … more »
The circa-2000 lineup of the Fall was a mighty beast, and their final doc… more »
The Fall began their initial tenure at Rough Trade with a frothing-at-the… more »
Having weighed “punk” in the balance and found it nowhere nea… more »
The Fall’s fourth, darkest and densest album is in fact exactly an … more »
The 1981 EP Slates is the crown jewel of the Fall’s catalogue, and … 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 »
Motown’s ’60s hits may be the Boomer classics, but after Berr… more »
Of the dozen-plus Elvis box sets out there, this one is the best introduc… more »
This four-disc monument might be the most narrowly focused of great boxed… more »
Def Jam was to the late ’80s what Motown was to the mid ’60s:… more »
To Dr. Nina Simone, “freedom” meant — among other thing… more »
She’s not kidding about the title: The First Lady of Country Music … more »
For most bands who only recorded three studio albums, a three-disc retros… 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 »
