PopMatters Associate Music Editor
Josh Langhoff is a church musician. He’s written about music for The Village Voice, The Singles Jukebox, two EMP Pop Conferences, his church newsletter, his blog Surfing in Babylon, and the Burnside Writers Collective, where he also serves as music editor.
Features
Tuesday, December 13 2011
The Book of Mormon: Contemporary Christian Album of 2011
Contemporary Christian Music could take a page or two out of The Book of Mormon.
Reviews
Friday, May 25 2012
Jean-luc Fafchamps: KDGhZ2SA, a Six-Letter Sufi Word
New music endeavor recalls Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies or Sufjan Stevens's 50 States Project.
Thursday, May 17 2012
Batida: Batida
Reissue label Soundway gets into modern dance music, and they're off to an excellent, noisy, relentless start.
Monday, May 7 2012
Counting Crows: Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)
Fifteen covers performed with as fine a sense of group interplay as you’ll find outside the jazz world.
Wednesday, May 2 2012
Juhani Aaltonen and Heikki Sarmanto: Conversations
Subdued duets for private listening and intimate naps.
Tuesday, May 1 2012
Gene Watson: Best of the Best: 25 Greatest Hits
Turn-of-the-'80s country comp raises questions about art, commerce, sex, and vast quantities of wine.
Dennis Rollins Velocity Trio: The 11th Gate [24.Apr.12]
Flexible Music: fm [11.Apr.12]
Wiley: Evolve or be Extinct [23.Mar.12]
Field Music: Plumb [1.Mar.12]
Lyle Lovett: Release Me [29.Feb.12]
Cursive: I Am Gemini [24.Feb.12]
Escort: Escort [8.Feb.12]
Graffiti6: Colours [30.Jan.12]
Reinhold Friedl: Inside Piano [25.Jan.12]
Buraka Som Sistema: Komba [5.Jan.12]
The Kentucky Headhunters: Dixie Lullabies [16.Dec.11]
Mikko Innanen & Innkvisitio: Clustrophy [14.Dec.11]
Geri Allen: A Child Is Born [12.Dec.11]
Marianne Pousseur: Only [21.Nov.11]
James Brown: The Singles Volume 11: 1979-1981 [18.Nov.11]
Kool and Together: Original Recordings 1970-77 [10.Nov.11]
Miranda Lambert: Four the Record [3.Nov.11]
Benjamin Thigpen: divide by zero [18.Oct.11]
Erasure: Tomorrow's World [13.Oct.11]
Trombone Shorty: For True [12.Oct.11]
Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes [7.Oct.11]
Various Artists: 101 Things to Do in Bongolia [29.Sep.11]
Cheer-Accident: No Ifs, Ands or Dogs [26.Sep.11]
Sergent Garcia: Una y Otra Vez [13.Sep.11]
When Saints Go Machine: Konkylie [24.Aug.11]
Pitbull: Planet Pit [16.Aug.11]
Henri Pousseur: Parabolique d'Enfer [8.Aug.11]
Nguyên Lê: Songs of Freedom [29.Jul.11]
Burlap to Cashmere: Burlap to Cashmere [22.Jul.11]
Blind Boys of Alabama: Take the High Road [14.Jul.11]
Limp Bizkit: Gold Cobra [6.Jul.11]
Locussolus: Locussolus [20.Jun.11]
Group Doueh: Zayna Jumma [17.Jun.11]
Quintron: Sucre du Sauvage [7.Jun.11]
David Bazan: Strange Negotiations [31.May.11]
Thurston Moore: Demolished Thoughts [26.May.11]
Dennis Coffey: Dennis Coffey [26.May.11]
Emanuele Errante: Time Elapsing Handheld [25.May.11]
Bob Marley and the Wailers: Live Forever [27.Apr.11]
Glasvegas: Euphoric /// Heartbreak [14.Apr.11]
Asphalt Orchestra: Asphalt Orchestra [1.Apr.11]
Mary Mary: Something Big [30.Mar.11]
Shunda K: The Most Wanted [24.Mar.11]
Avril Lavigne: Goodbye Lullaby [16.Mar.11]
Neil Diamond: The Bang Years 1966-1968 [11.Mar.11]
Pigeon John: Dragon Slayer [10.Mar.11]
Monotonix: Not Yet [9.Mar.11]
Telekinesis: 12 Desperate Straight Lines [17.Feb.11]
Sun City Girls: Funeral Mariachi [7.Feb.11]
Charlotte Martin: Dancing on Needles [2.Feb.11]
Heavy Winged: Sunspotted [26.Jan.11]
John Zacherle: Monster Mash / Scary Tales [14.Jan.11]
Billy Joel: The Hits [4.Jan.11]
Ke$ha: Cannibal [8.Dec.10]
Sonos: December Songs [7.Dec.10]
The Superions: Destination... Christmas! [6.Dec.10]
Pet Shop Boys: Ultimate Pet Shop Boys [30.Nov.10]
Indigo Girls: Holly Happy Days [29.Nov.10]
Bruce Haack: Farad: The Electric Voice [11.Nov.10]
Ghostland Observatory: Codename: Rondo [29.Oct.10]
Electric Six: Zodiac [26.Oct.10]
Goose: Synrise [19.Oct.10]
¡Mayday!: Stuck on an Island [14.Oct.10]
The Birthday Massacre: Pins and Needles [7.Oct.10]
Camu Tao: King of Hearts [27.Sep.10]
