Michael Tedder

For Your Reading Pleasure

administrator — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:46:41 +0000

So, if you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to for the past few months, here you go. I’m proud of everything I’ve done, but if you’re rushed for time (and aren’t we all?) here’s the best pieces I’ve written in the past few months.

We got pieces for Salon, The New Republic, Spin, The Spit Take, The AV Club and the proverbial “more” in here. What can I say? I keep busy. Dig in.

An essay for The New Republic about alternative rock becoming classic rock

An essay for Salon about Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Star Wars

My Salon essay discussed on the premiere Joss Whedon fan site, which was certainly a unique experience

Feature on Titus Andronicus for The Village Voice

Supplemental interview with the members of Titus Andronicus with material that didn’t make my feature

Review of a Frightened Rabbit album for Spin

Review of a Joy Formidable album for Spin

Review of a Jack White concert for NBC

Interview with Flying Lotus for eMusic

Review of a Cody Chesnutt album for The AV Club

Review of Women Aren’t Funny, a documentary about women in comedy for The Spit Take

And Now Some More Pieces

administrator — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:37:37 +0000

Okay, that was fun. Here’s some more recent pieces that I think you might enjoy. We got some stuff for MTVHive, some Village Voice stuff, some self-titled and eMusic stuff and more.

Feature on enjoying cocktails with TEEN for self-titled

A review of a Pinback album for eMusic

A review of a FIDLAR album for eMusic

Review of a Bon Iver show

Interview with Matt & Kim

An essay on Japandroids, Local H and the year in rock

Interview with P.O.S.

My 2012 Pazz & Jop ballot

A Q&A about my 2012 Pazz & Jop ballot

My 2012 Pazz & Jop comments

Recap of The Recaps

administrator — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:33:47 +0000

Okay, time to put some more stuff on this site. Let’s start with all of the recaps of The Office I did for New York Magazine slash Vulture. I’ll also throw in the The Mindy Project recap that I did.

Recap of the February 7, 2013 episode of The Office

Recap of the January 31, 2013 episodes of The Office

Recap of the January 24, 2013 episode of The Office

Recap of the January 17, 2013 episode of The Office

Recap of the January 10, 2013 episode of The Office

Recap of the December 6, 2012 episode of The Office

Recap of the November 15, 2012 episode of The Office

Recap of the November 8, 2012 episode of The Office

Recap of the October 30, 2012 episode of The Mindy Project

Recap of the October 25, 2012 episode of The Office

Recap of the October 19, 2012 episode of The Office

Recap of the October 4, 2012 episode of The Office

Recap of the September 27, 2012 episode of The Office

Recap of the September 20, 2012 episode of The Office

New Stuff Part Six

administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:42:54 +0000

Let’s close this out with pieces I have written for the good people over at NBC’s music blog Nonstop Sound.

Review of a tUnE-yArDs concert

Review of a Regina Spektor concert

Analysis of the Governors Island festival

Review of a Japandroids concert

Recap of the Northside Festival

Review of an Icarus Line/Against Me!/The Cult concert

Review of a Jane’s Addiction concert

Review of a My Morning Jacket concert

New Stuff Part Five

administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:39:06 +0000

Earlier this summer I guest wrote for Fuse for a week. Here’s what happened.

Article on a Devo and Blondie tour

Article on The Shins playing Bonnaro

Article on Against Me! dueting with Joan Jett

Article on Radiohead debuting a new song

Another article on a new Radiohead song

Article on a Danny Brown video

Article on Hellyeah

Article on a Grizzly Bear song

Article on a Metric tour

Article on a Jimmy Fallon, Carly Rae Jepsen and Jimmy Fallon video

Article on Yelawolf playing Bonnaroo

Article on the death of Bob Welch from Fleetwood Mac

Article on a Killers album

Article on a new song from The XX

Article on 50 Cent and Oprah Winfrey, together at last

Article on The Flaming Lips record-breaking concert tour

Article on a new Muse video

Article on a John Mayer getting his feelings hurt by Taylor Swift, featuring a headline I am very proud of

New Stuff Part Four

administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:31:12 +0000

And now for a cornucopia of pieces from MTV Hive, and also a link to the NPR interview wherein Billy Corgan is told a quote from my essay in which I said that he has a repeated tendency to get in his own way. Corgan agreed with my assessment. It was a weird feeling to hear that.

I also threw in a story I did about the cancer research charity Love Hope Strength for the non-profit website Music For Good.

Interview with Dimitri Coats of OFF!

Interview with Santigold

Write up of Liars for an Artist Of The Day feature

Essay on The Smashing Pumpkins and their album Oceania

National Public Radio Interview with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins in which my essay was mentioned

Review of the new single by Starring

Essay on The Antlers and their album Undersea

Article about the cancer charity Love Hope Strength

New Stuff Part Three

administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:27:17 +0000

I wanted to highlight this next one, a cover story for self-titled magazine on EL-P. Featuring cameos from Das Racist, Killer Mike and rest of your favorite indie-rappers. (Except for Danny Brown, who did not pick up his phone.)

I worked very long and hard on this. Proud of how it came out. You might have to stroll a bit to get to it.

Cover story on EL-P for self-titled

New Stuff Part Two

administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:22:04 +0000

Now I have a feature and a review from Spin, as well as some comedy reviews from my pals at The Spit Take.

Spin

Feature on Reggie Watts and Scott Aukerman’s TV show Comedy Bang Bang

Review of a Japandroids album

The Spit Take

Review of a Chad Daniels album

Review of a Danny Bevins album

Review of a Matt Braunger album

New Stuff Part One

administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:18:01 +0000

Let’s start with some stuff from The Village Voice. Should you enjoy jangly, winsome indiepop and quotes from Kip Berman of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, you will be pleased.

Round table on the New York indiepop scene feature members of My Favorite, The Drums, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Mondo NYC and the owners of Cake Shop

Feature on The Drums, Hospitality and the New York indiepop scene

Feature on Michael Grace Jr. and My Favorite

Overview of the works of My Favorite