Zach Schonfeld currently attends Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, birthplace of Das Racist, MGMT, and the nineteenth-century respiration calorimeter. He serves as managing editor of Wesleying, a popular student-life blog, and arts editor of the twice-weekly Wesleyan Argus, organizing the occasional noise rock show in between. In his spare time, he enjoys visiting presidential birthplaces and scowling at split infinitives.
Features
Monday, March 5 2012
Stacked Wax: The Vinyl Comeback
As music formats push inexorably towards convenience, compactness, digitization, who could have anticipated the resurgence of the clunky, fossilized LP?
Tuesday, February 15 2011
Defending The Trick of Disaster: Neil Young’s 'Trans', Reconsidered
Nearly 30 years later, Trans remains the most baffling, bizarre, and misunderstood project in Neil Young’s oeuvre. Here’s why it’s great.
Friday, January 15 2010
Our Band Could Be Your Life. Again. Band Reunions Redefined in the 2000s
The decade's most memorable reunion stories have not been cash grabs by classic rock giants, but unexpected comebacks by some of indie's most valuable players. Here's why.
Thursday, February 28 2008
Souled American, Around the Horn (1990)
Chicago’s Souled American's album, Around the Horn, may be the most uniquely beautiful alt-country album you’ve never heard.
Reviews
Tuesday, February 14 2012
Shearwater: Animal Joy
2010’s The Golden Archipelago concluded a gorgeous trilogy, but Animal Joy presents a leaner, rougher Shearwater.
Monday, February 6 2012
B-Movie Lightning: Rain on a River
At its best, Rain on a River is bouncy, infectious electro-pop; at its worst, hollow and dull.
Thursday, December 8 2011
Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow
The point isn’t that Eskimos don’t actually have 50 words for snow. It’s that Kate Bush does.
Thursday, July 21 2011
Woods: Sun and Shade
The Brooklyn-based lo-fi outfit churns out another solid collection of crackly guitar-pop -- with a few more-than-gratuitous psych-jams for questionable measure.
Tuesday, February 15 2011
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
Recorded in a 19th century Dorset church, Polly Jean's latest focuses heavily on nationalism, warfare, and the use and abuse of the autoharp.
Blogs
Thursday, April 22 2010
Wilco: 9.April.2010 - Hartford
Wilco pulled out one of their classic, epic, three-hour sets in Hartford, CT.
