coney island baby turns 50 this month www.pastemagazine.com/music/lou-re...

here’s a new essay of mine about bowie, my intersex diagnosis, and the shapes of death www.pastemagazine.com/music/david-...

Big news for 2026, I'm back to having a column in @pastemagazine.bsky.social! Alt-rock Department is about grocery store radio rock, and my experiences working in a grocery store, in the mid to late 90s. The first one is here, it's about Possum Kingdom. www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...

what the hell why not. here’s 1500 words on a song i like www.pastemagazine.com/music/starsh...

happy zuma day to you and yours www.pastemagazine.com/music/neil-y...

🕯️🕯️ you want to hire tatiana to write for your publication so bad 🕯️🕯️

everything i could ever hope to say is right in here www.pastemagazine.com/music/camero...

me and emmylou www.pastemagazine.com/music/emmylo...

i wake up crying, you’re making rain!! happy hounds of love day www.pastemagazine.com/music/kate-b...

the year of dylan beats on www.pastemagazine.com/music/bob-dy...

HELLO: As I mentioned on Friday, I got laid off from my role at Splinter. I have now migrated my long-dormant newsletter, Gravity Is Gone, to a better home (Ghost), and will start writing and reporting over there. I would *love* it if you would sign up. www.gravityisgone.com/gravity-rela...

born to run is an album i’ve wanted to write about for years. i finally did it, on its 50th birthday. www.pastemagazine.com/music/bruce-...

this week i went to the mayhem ball www.pastemagazine.com/music/lady-g...

AOTY incoming. my latest: www.pastemagazine.com/music/nouris...

setting myself on fire today www.pastemagazine.com/music/bruce-...

wrote about an album i love very much www.pastemagazine.com/music/prefab...

“Am I trying to prove something? Yeah. What am I trying to prove? I have no fucking idea,” he admits, chuckling.

it’s hard to fully articulate how informative matt berninger’s writing is on my own, so this story was a big one www.pastemagazine.com/music/matt-b...

Dean Johnson is one of the best living songwriters. This profile by @yogurttowne.bsky.social over at @pastemagazine.bsky.social is tremendous and should be an inspiration to anyone making art as they age. He's 52 and making revelatory music. You can to. www.pastemagazine.com/music/dean-j...

some thoughts on sweet brian: www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-be...

i recently spent some time with the greatest to ever do it www.pastemagazine.com/music/john-c...

i spoke with sufjan stevens about illinois and carrie & lowell and wrote about it www.pastemagazine.com/music/sufjan...

we’re all dudes around here www.pastemagazine.com/music/jeff-b...

a change of pace from my usual beat: 10,000 words on the superstardom of rhea ripley, because wrestling is fucking cool www.pastemagazine.com/tv/rhea-ripl...

the application deadline for paste’s summer internship program is this friday, so if you know of anyone looking for a steady writing/editorial gig pass it on! www.pastemagazine.com/music/paste-...

happy perfume genius day to all who celebrate www.pastemagazine.com/music/perfum...

go start anew. the year of dylan continues with bringing it all back home’s 60th birthday www.pastemagazine.com/music/bob-dy...

some personal news: I'm joining @pastemagazine.bsky.social in april as the associate music editor! very excited to be working with @yogurttowne.bsky.social! I'll still be handling @anticsmagazine.bsky.social as well

i interviewed Gaga + wrote about mayhem www.pastemagazine.com/music/lady-g...

doo-wop is my favorite genre. here’s my deep dive on its best songs www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-s...

i quite like the music sam fender makes, so i wrote about him www.pastemagazine.com/music/sam-fe...

read this @yogurttowne.bsky.social piece today www.pastemagazine.com/music/tears-...

my favorite album of all time, ‘songs from the big chair,’ is 40 years old today. so i went long with the guys who made it. www.pastemagazine.com/music/tears-...

my favorite album of all time, ‘songs from the big chair,’ is 40 years old today. so i went long with the guys who made it. www.pastemagazine.com/music/tears-...

i wrote about grand theft hamlet, a truly intimate and remarkable achievement in pandemic storytelling www.pastemagazine.com/movies/gta/g...

got caught writing, again, about my favorite band. fust 4 ever www.pastemagazine.com/music/fust/f...

i wrote some final words about the band, who’ve all left us now. www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-ba...

i wrote about blood on the tracks: www.pastemagazine.com/music/bob-dy...

so long to you, david. thanks for giving me the language www.pastemagazine.com/movies/david...

the flower ladies want back what they have lent you www.pastemagazine.com/music/bob-dy...

hauling through the snow at a frightening speed www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-be...

i wrote a lot this year, but my favorite thing i did was this stop making sense deep dive with talking heads www.pastemagazine.com/article/time...

wrapping up my year of writing with my last cover story of 2024, on one of the best to ever do it: dawn richard www.pastemagazine.com/music/dawn-r...

I wrote about Bryan Ferry, the coolest guy who’s ever lived. www.pastemagazine.com/music/bryan-...

jack white is paste’s artist of the year for 2024: www.pastemagazine.com/music/jack-w...

part 1 of my live session is now up. it looks like this. hell yeah please share m.youtube.com/watch?v=aZXY...

it’s been a great year for listening to stuff www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-a...

spoiler alert: the album fucks

“Everybody on the coast thinks the inside of the country is stupid, and maybe we are! We very well could be stupid, but we’re our own type of stupid.” I love my Ohio mom www.pastemagazine.com/music/kim-de...

I wrote some words about Kendrick’s new album, which is very, very good www.pastemagazine.com/music/kendri...