My Year’s Best

My Year’s Best

In the spirit of the end of days, at least as far as 2013 is concerned, I’m offering up an undeniably subjective take on some of my year’s highlights. Most fulfilling read: Iain Sinclair’s Downriver: it took me nearly 9-months to finish all...
Billy Shears

Billy Shears

Twenty years ago my parents purchased me a CD player for Christmas. It was a rectangular plastic black box that housed a single CD, played analog tapes as well as recorded CD’s to tape, tuned-in the radio, and was portable—what at the time some called a...