Kate McGarrigle

With the Help of Mark Ronson, Rufus Wainwright Learns to Dance

NOD TO MCGARRIGLE

Honoring a folk matriarch

People Who Died, Circa 2010

Jay Reatard, gone but not forgotten.​It is depressing but accurate to note how inexorably the internet bends toward death, and how much of the work of professional critics these days is announcing it, verifying it, and making sense of it (often in that order, unfortunately). Michael Jackson, a ... More >>

Week in Review: DIY Snitchin

We bleed for this thing. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week Jay-Z went all the way to the top of the singles list on our 2009 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, the rapper told SOTC that his two favorite songs of last year both came from Kings of Leon. With an honorable mention tip of the cap to the ... More >>

Your Guide to CMJ 2004

We bleed for this thing. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week Jay-Z went all the way to the top of the singles list on our 2009 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, the rapper told SOTC that his two favorite songs of last year both came from Kings of Leon. With an honorable mention tip of the cap to the ... More >>

Sympathy for the Slave

Stephen Collins Foster is back on earth, wrestling with race: the entity in the woodpile