Albums of Our Lives: Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City
Could the idea of a god be reconciled with the things I saw around me? This question obsessed me in my last month in Cambodia.
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Albums of Our Lives: Ben Folds’s Rockin’ The Suburbs
“Annie Waits” summed me up in ways that I wasn’t consciously aware of at the time and not only because Annie was my childhood nickname.
Albums of Our Lives: Beck’s Odelay
A friend once showed me his dad’s copy of the Beatles's White Album and said you could find secret messages hidden in the lyrics. I tried to look for the same things in Odelay, but it resisted.
Albums of Our Lives: The Cure’s Disintegration
The end is always tragic. I’d known that from the start. What kind of sucker would expect to hold on to a girl named Misty Hayes?
Albums of Our Lives: Guided by Voices’s Alien Lanes
For me, Bob Pollard became a messiah of the creative life, urging me forward for many years to come, in my new, somewhat shabby but inspired career.
Albums of Our Lives: The National’s High Violet
I wanted to feel sheltered under the cathedral of his voice, to feel, always, the way his songs made me feel.
Albums of Our Lives: Les Savy Fav’s Go Forth
It’s one of those records I’ve glued to a pedestal, like people do with torrid weekend affairs or their favorite dish at Denny’s.
Albums of Our Lives: Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm
We could hear the muffled roar of the show booming through the walls of the historic building. We were drunk, pretending to be music writers. We were giddy with our trespass.
Albums of Our Lives: Björk’s Debut
Music is the ultimate consolation for reality’s letdowns (like being thirteen and still firmly living in the realm of childhood). I would listen to “Venus as a Boy” on repeat in my bedroom, curtains drawn, and imagine Allan’s face, his arms, his chest, his body.
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Diana Whitney reviews Cynthia Cruz’s poetry collection, Wunderkammer, meaning “cabinet of curiosities.” This is a book of “delicious… detail.” Cruz’s poems, Whitney declares, “have a wry sense of humor…
Albums of Our Lives: Three Songs from the Pixies’s Surfer Rosa
Halloween afternoon, my senior year of high school. At the end of the school day, shadows already stretch from the huge white pines near Newton Square.
Albums of Our Lives: Dory Tourette and the Skirtheads’ Rock Immortal
The driving force of the album is the character Dory Tourette, part invented alter ego, part self-mythologized caricature of frontman Dory Ben-Shalom...