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.
You’re So Sick—I’m So Sick of Me Too
What was my favorite pop song of the year? What song hurt my feelings the most? Here is a comprehensive look at ten songs that I found myself compelled by in 2025.
A Warning Sign, When You See It
An evocative, personal exploration of past and memory, and of their fraught mental health, singer and songwriter Hannah Pruzinsky has crafted an enormous and impressive artistic declaration with their second full-length as H.Pruz.
This World—Afraid
On her third full-length as Flock of Dimes, Jenn Wasner continues to find the space between the organic and synthetic in her soundscape, creating a delicate, swirling bed for her confessional and harrowing lyricism.
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.
Hold Me As I
Revisiting the debut from Greg Dulli’s post-Afghan Whigs project, The Twilight Singers, 25 years later.
Fireworks on T.V.
Singer and songwriter Laura Stevenson confronts the end of her marriage on her seventh full-length, Late Great.
All That We Could Do With This E•MO•TION
Celebrating a decade spent in the Kingdom of Desire with Carly Rae Jepsen