metatexts

How To Pitch To NPR Music
A guide for feature writers / 2022

selected features

Matt Tong Surrenders To The Song
How the Algiers and former Bloc Party drummer chases a mood / 2023
In Sayonara Wild Hearts, Pop Music Is Recovery
The perfect video game for an impossible year / 2020
Listen To Teenage Dirtbag With Me 
Nashville star Ruston Kelly explains the loser anthem / 2020
I Hope We Both Die 
The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on embracing your worst self / 2018
Analog For The People 
Synth designer Tatsuya Takahashi on engineering fun / 2017
Children Of The Con 
Tegan and Sara’s decade of influence / 2017
Join The Black Parade 
My Chemical Romance and the politics of taste / 2016
Being Aaron Burr 
Leslie Odom Jr. on performance as empathy / 2015
On Surviving In Punk 
Laura Jane Grace and Lauren Denitzio retrace parallel lives / 2015
Music, The Food of Amour 
Michael Haneke’s film makes its few music cues count / 2013
Mellon Collie Mystery Girl 
An iconic album cover’s hidden art history lesson / 2012
Millions Of People Go By 
Finding the essence of city life in a doo-wop song / 2012

selected shortform

100 gecs, 10,000 gecs / 2023
Troye Sivan, Something to Give Each Other / 2023
Meet Me @ The Altar, “Hit Like a Girl” / 2021
Deep Sea Diver, "Stop Pretending" / 2020
Caroline Polachek, "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings" / 2019
Christine and the Queens, Chris / 2018
Now, Now, "SGL" / 2017
Kendrick Lamar, "LOVE." / 2017
Ted Leo: Tiny Desk Concert / 2017
Apple Discontinues The iPod Classic / 2017
Seeing Fall Out Boy Live / 2017
Carly Rae Jepsen, “Run Away With Me” (Patrick Stump Remix) / 2016
Kanye West, "Ultralight Beam" / 2016
Leslie Odom Jr., "I Know That You Know" / 2016
The 1975, "A Change of Heart" / 2016
Worriers, Imaginary Life / 2015
100%, “Room 336” / 2015
Quarterbacks, Quarterbacks / 2015
Lemuria, The Distance Is So Big / 2013
Waxahatchee, “Be Good” / 2012​