Music Writing

I started writing analytically about contemporary pop music at the beginning of 2013, with the blog Anhedonic Headphones. Over time this led to opportunities to contribute to other websites, including Bearded Gentlemen Music, Spectrum Culture, PopMatters, and most recently, Atwood Magazine.

Anhedonic Headphones will remain online as an archive, and going forward, new pieces of music analysis and criticism will be published here.

A Darkness Right Before
Kevin Krein Kevin Krein

A Darkness Right Before

Two years after the breakup of the beloved Camp Cope, frontwoman Georgia MacDonald relocated to Los Angeles and thrashes around in the space between lust and loneliness across these five songs.

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Hold Me As I
Kevin Krein Kevin Krein

Hold Me As I

Revisiting the debut from Greg Dulli’s post-Afghan Whigs project, The Twilight Singers, 25 years later.

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Fireworks on T.V.
Kevin Krein Kevin Krein

Fireworks on T.V.

Singer and songwriter Laura Stevenson confronts the end of her marriage on her seventh full-length, Late Great.

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