Email Author Michael Miller

Awards

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published September 30, 2010

  "Ghetto to Gridiron"

More

2009 Stories by Michael Miller

• Nick Cave's New Novel Is No Birthday Party

  published September 8, 2009

  Nick Cave's disappointing second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, is a Bad Seeds record in book form with all the wit stripped away.... More >>

• DEATH BY VIVIAN GIRLS

  published August 18, 2009

  You know that thing about punk rockers not being able to play their instruments but having a lot of, er, emotion? Yeah, that applies to Brooklyn... More >>

• BROOKLYN ROCKS

  published August 11, 2009

  So, the Guggenheim turns 50 and thinks it can get away with anything: Most participants in the first installment of the museum's It Came From... More >>

• GUITAR-LESS BROOKLYN

  published August 4, 2009

  Get out your Ecstasy and glow sticks. It's time for the second annual Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival! In truly endemic Brooklyn style,... More >>

• PARTY ON THE WATERFRONT

  published July 28, 2009

  The Pool Parties aren’t being held in the drained McCarren Park Pool anymore, but don’t fret: There’s still great free music, the... More >>

• GOOD COP

  published July 22, 2009

  Joan as Policewoman —real name: Joan Wasser—calls her music "punk-rock r&b," but, really, there's more to it than that. After... More >>

• OPPOSITES ATTRACT

  published July 8, 2009

  "Definitely, you can come and live with us," the Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth sings on "Temecula Sunrise" from 2009's Bitte... More >>

• FATHERS AND SONS

  published July 1, 2009

  Fucked Up's Damian Abraham (a/k/a Pink Eyes) was still in diapers when Mission of Burma first started horrifying audiences with... More >>

• MYSTIC RIVER

  published June 24, 2009

  Conor Oberst, the pubescent brains behind Bright Eyes—that mopey wunderkind who had every teenager’s mother asking, “Are... More >>

• ZINES ARE DEAD

  published June 17, 2009

  Like punk music, it is impossible to define zines, and tracing the beginnings of these homemade publications can be even harder. Was the inaugural... More >>

• BREAKING HEARTS, TAKING NAMES

  published June 10, 2009

  For the past decade, Glasgow's Camera Obscura have turned sorrow into one irresistible melody after another. On 2009's My Maudlin... More >>