| We Know the Truth: “Out the Slums” | January 26, 2022 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen kicks off our tribute to Drakeo the Ruler with "Out the Slums." RIYL the Stinc Team, defunct fitness club chains.
| Handle with Care: Numero Group reissues Pastor T.L. Barrett | October 13, 2021 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen takes a critical look at Numero Group's reissue of music by Pastor T.L. Barrett.
| Call Him Mr. Pitiful: O.V. Wright’s A Nickel and a Nail | August 3, 2021 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen sheds a tear with O.V. Wright, one of soul's most underrated weepers.
| The Pick of the Litter: “Party Up” | April 22, 2021 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen takes you back to the high school dance with the next iteration of the Passion of the Weiss tribute to DMX.
| Apres Eux Le Deluge: Light in the Attic’s Somewhere Between chronicles experimental Japanese pop | February 4, 2021 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen looks into Light in the Attic's latest entry in its Japan Archival series.
| No Type: Poloboy Nunu has Indiana on his back | December 7, 2020 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen looks at the best rapper from Indianapolis since...nobody?
| Detroit Space Rock City: Third Man Collects Michigan Shoegaze | September 28, 2020 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen daydreams about Third Man's new collection of 90s Michigan shoegaze.
| What’s Past is Epilogue: The Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto | November 21, 2019 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen nicks himself on Ryuichi Sakamoto's Thousand Knives, newly reissued by Wewantsounds.
| Music as Counterargument: BBE collects untraceable Japanese jazz | October 15, 2019 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen surveys the not latest but maybe greatest of Japanese jazz.
Jordan Ryan Pedersen immerses himself in composer John Luther Adams' follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Become Ocean."
