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3 days ago | 
pitchfork.com | Sam Sodomsky
There comes a time when devotees of Bruce Springsteen start obsessing over the music he didn’t release.
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2 weeks ago | 
pitchfork.com | Sam Sodomsky
Depending on your age, taste, and life circumstances, you might see Brian Wilson as the sunny figurehead of youthful innocence; the tortured ideal of artistic integrity; the paragon of mastercraftsmanship; or a lovable eccentric who played his grand piano inside a giant sandbox. The common thread through all of these archetypes, of course, is that he endured.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Sam Sodomsky
Watch: Trooping the Colour highlights on King's official birthdayKing Charles and Queen Camilla were joined by members of the Royal Family as they waved to cheering crowds. King Charles and Queen Camilla were joined by members of the Royal Family as they waved to cheering crowds.
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Feb 2, 2025 | 
pitchfork.com | Sam Sodomsky
As a precocious youth, Jerry Garcia found escape through painting, studying the Bay Area figurative style of abstract art. Late in life, it was scuba diving, acquainting himself with the ocean floors of Hawaii, petting octopuses and eels, setting a world record for the longest time spent underwater. But when he was turning 30, all Jerry wanted to do was play pedal steel.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Sam Sodomsky
1 day agoJanuary has vanished in a flash, but it was a consequential month with a few opening announcements and plenty to look forward to over the next 11 months. This is Eater Chicago's Most Anticipated Openings for 2025, and we’ve sifted through social media posts, PR blasts, and chef interviews to …
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
hearingthings.co | Sam Sodomsky
“What else can you say to help a friend with a broken heart?” MJ Lenderman asks in “You Don’t Know the Shape I’m In,” near the end of Manning Fireworks. It’s another quotable, coolly conversational line from a songwriter quickly becoming renowned for them. But something is different this time.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
gq.com | Sam Sodomsky
Stephen Malkmus is stuck in traffic, driving a car full of precious art across the country. Pavement just played a reunion show in Seattle, which gave Malkmus the opportunity to visit his old home in Portland, where he lived with his wife—the sculpture artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins—and their two daughters. His job now is to transport some of Hutchins' more delicate sculptures to the family’s new place in Chicago. “I'm in such a state of flux,” he reflects over the phone from the road.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
pitchfork.com | Sam Sodomsky
Let’s say it doesn’t work out. You cross over from adolescence to adulthood and wind up living a life you didn’t choose. The rooms are depressing and fluorescent; the people who once offered comfort grow distant; any ambition for the future is replaced with a somewhat nauseating impulse just to get through the day. David Berman sings to one such person in “Pretty Eyes,” at the very end of The Natural Bridge, an album he made when he was 29.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Sam Sodomsky
Star pianist: AI will never replace me - SlippediscFrom an interview by Christian Berzins with Khatia Buniatishvili: Do you think art will change fundamentally in this century? Do you think that an AI …
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
gq.com | Sam Sodomsky
The members of The Hard Quartet, a new supergroup featuring some of the most revered names in the past three decades of indie rock, are passing a swelteringly hot summer morning in a serene garden in Manhattan’s East Village. Guitarist and songwriter Matt Sweeney acts as a kind of spokesperson, detailing their history with the narrative flair and self-awareness of a talking head in a retrospective documentary.
