Category: Music

For a few years, I was pretty obsessive about keeping a record of every band I saw perform. I tried to get at least a...

Growing up in Arizona, nachos was a food group. Once I hit a certain age, calories became a thing, and nachos became a forbidden pleasure....

I confess that I grew up with a few stereotypes about the French. And as an adult, my few interactions with French people have not...

My musical taste is eclectic, but punk is not my genre. I love the idea of punk and most of the politics and aesthetics of...

Ironically, as a person who works in words, I rarely listen to the lyrics in music. In heavy metal, the vocals are usually textural. In...