Film review

My favorite director, Werner Herzog, just released a new film, Encounters at the End of the World, in select cities. Review is here.

Iceland stuff

Last October, I made my third trip to Iceland – my second to cover Iceland Airwaves. This time, I was lucky enough to work for both SF Weekly and Reykjavik Grapevine. After the festival, I rented a car and drove around the entire country in 4 nights. Here’s how that turned out (scroll down through these PDF files to find my article).

SF Weekly stuff

Some recent work in SF Weekly:

Review of Islands’ Arm’s Way

Moral dilemma of a liberal Nuge fan

Review of Peter Moren’s The Last Tycoon

Live reviews for LA Weekly

Some links to recent live reviews I’ve done for Play, LA Weekly’s music blog:

El-P and Dizzee Rascal

Neil Hamburger interview

Tapes ‘N Tapes

She & Him

Spinner.com blog entries

I’ve been doing occasional postings at AOL’s music site, Spinner, for a few months now. Here are some of the most recent ones:

Jay Reatard: I spoke with Jay on the phone in Memphis before he heads out on his next tour. He’s got this new singles collection out now on In the Red, but please, please, please listen to Blood Visions, one of my fave albums of last year (even though it actually came out in 2006).

The War on Drugs: The War on Drugs has put out what is possibly my favorite record of the year, even though we’re only halfway through. I spoke with singer/songwriter Adam Granduciel for this piece.

RZA: Possibly the best interview I’ve ever conducted with one of my heroes. Bung.

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Glaciers of Ice – July edition

I do a monthly hip-hop roundup for Lost at Sea, check out the July edition, published today.

New blog

This is the inauguration of my ongoing blog/resume/clip collection. Here we go.