From the Hood : The Afterlife of Pablo
Kanye do something with this album cover meme? Ye kan!
Columns
The Complicatist : Japanese Music
Japanese hip-hop, noise music, J-Pop, and a whole lot more besides….
Do You Believe In Second Chances?
The Sundance TV series Rectify takes the difficulties of faith, forgiveness and family seriously
From The Hood : Illegal in an Illegal Land
Reading the fine print, except it’s not actually fine at all.
The Complicatist : Hip Hop’s Vanishing Sense of Community
A collective music based on allegiance to the ‘hood now belongs to remote and isolated solo stars
The Complicatist : Frankie Cosmos, and other sounds of whiteness
Some musical journeys in the worlds of white people….
Panic in Detroit
Why David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows is a teenage sensation.
From The Hood : We Called Him Tortoise, Because He Deports Us
Australia and Other Nonsense
The Complicatist: Bradford Cox of Deerhunter
Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
The Complicatist Pt 2: Galesburg, Revisited
Holding aloft a flickering torch for John Darnielle’s older stuff
From the Hood : Where Engels Fears To Tread
History, In A Grain Of Salt
The Complicatist : London O’Connor, and others…
Songs of innocence, regret, anxiety, failure and punishing ennui…
From The Hood : Trench Lawfare
Shouldn’t forging a nation from blood and sacrifice be against the law?
The Complicatist : Sufjan Stevens
The Carrie and Lowell album is about trying to survive your family’s impact on you
Finding Love in Hell
How does David Lynch’s Wild at Heart look, 25 years later?
From the Hood: Not flag-waving; flag-drowning
Running a few ideas up the flagpole to see if anyone repeatedly chops them down
The Complicatist : Willie Nelson
Looking back at 50 years of Nashville’s black sheep boy
From The Hood : The Politician’s Song
A General description of a Major problem
The Complicatist : Arthur Russell
A tribute to the recently re-discovered innovator
From The Hood : Homeopathic Governance
Got a political problem? Add water, and look lively
From The Hood : Voting By The Good Book
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth double.
From The Hood : Carry On Captaining
Its lonely at the top, but the view is grand
The Complicatist : Blue Eyed & Soulful
From the Righteous Brothers to Yelawolf and beyond…
From the Hood : Finding A Happy Media
Ask A Prime Minister
From The Hood : Fol-De-Royal
Werewolf wasn’t paying close attention to the royal tour but we thought we’d have a go at the whole coverage thing anyway.
The Complicatist : Jackson C. Frank, Mark Kozelek
The love songs of the middle-aged mope
From The Hood : Unofficial Cabinet Manuals
And so it was written, and so shall it ever be…
The Complicatist : Angel Olsen, William Tyler
Are you lonely too? Hi Five! So am I!
From The Hood : That Referendum Thing In Plain English
The Financemeister is not a man to let fancy forms of democracy get in the way.
From The Hood : The Masque Of The Blue Line
Am I getting old or are holidays just not as fun any more?