Adult Swim Creative Director Jason DeMarco returns to discuss the state of anime, and the future of Toonami with me and Jake Cleland. // @Clarknova1 @sawngswjakec
Christmas single No. 2: audio commentary for the Cure’s in Orange film from 1986 (currently on YouTube). Essentially, this is a two-hour ramble on the band’s legacy. Merry Christmas, everybody!
I talk with Jason DeMarco—VP and Creative Director of Adult Swim—about his Williams Street imprint, old anime, and Run the Jewels.
A wandering, wondrous walk through glam, indie, and UK/US music journalism with my generation’s most prolific author, Simon Reynolds.
Sean T. Collins returns to discuss the increasing appropriation of music as emotional heft in television, with a focus on Mr. Robot and Stranger Things.
On the sliding scales of emo history, and the rise and fall (and rise) of Thursday.
On the sliding scales of emo history, and the rise and fall (and rise) of Thursday.
Defending the 1990s from take culture with serial TV columnist Sean T. Collins.
Defending the 1990s from take culture with serial TV columnist Sean T. Collins.
A look back at the trail-rated career of Mountain Goats main-man John Darnielle.
On Kurt Cobain, the grunge moment, and the critical embrace of drug abuse.
A capricious teenager confronts the cold light of his mother’s record collection.
Catching up with New Yorker columnist Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell at Any Price, It Still Moves, and the 33 1/3 entry for Nick Drake’s Pink Moon.
A look back at shoegaze, the soundtrack of my youth (and the genre that wouldn’t die).
A look back at shoegaze, the soundtrack of my youth, and the genre that wouldn’t die.
On the wild ride of one George O’Dowd, the biggest name to rise from the Kentish Town slums since Jack Cade.
On the wild ride of one George O’Dowd, the biggest name to rise from the Kentish Town slums since Jack Cade.