Marc Hogan has been occasionally getting paid to write about music since 2003. His music writing has appeared, with enormously varying degrees of regularity, in SPIN, Pitchfork, the Village Voice, Paste, and the Chicago Tribune, and received an honorable mention in Da Capo’s Best Music Writing 2007. The New York Times once said he “goes over the top and stays there to very nice effect.” He also covers business news for various Financial Times publications.
Comet Gain embodies a certain outsider-pop sensibility so perfectly … more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
The first thing indie-rock fans might notice about Lenses Alien is how cl… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
Three songs into her third album, Kate Bush lists the imagined residents … more »
“I’m just drifting,” Adam Granduciel sings through the … more »
This Montreal quartet’s sumptuously shrill wall-of-noise debut came… more »
Though Killer Mike got his break as a tough-guy OutKast guest, he has inc… more »
If people join cults to escape adulthood, what Madeline Follin and Brian … more »
Chris Walla is best known as the guitarist for Death Cab for Cutie, but t… more »
Cults aren't the first group to rise from anonymity to buzz-band stat… more »
Released several years before critics coined the term "trip-hop," Massive… more »
Mazzy Star's second album was a sleeper hit in more ways than one. Ro… more »
Nothing could suit the Beta Band's music better than the truth that t… more »
Somewhere along the line, Death Cab for Cutie got huge. The unassuming ro… more »
"Rock 'n' roll" is how Noel Heroux described one of these eMusic … more »
"Girls, don't despair, 'cause soon, I'll be there," Sonny Smi… more »
For pop songwriter Lenka Kripac, former singer and keyboardist with Sydne… more »
File Under: From raw, gutbucket blues to soul, rock and pop with a simila… more »
“The rock 'n' roll business is pretty absurd, but the world… more »
Legend has it quintessential punk-rock prototypes the Troggs took their n… 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 »
