| 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."
| He is the Cool: Screamin Jay Hawkins’ Bizarre Years | July 9, 2019 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen digs into Real Gone Music's new collection of late-period Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
| Help Me to Remember: The Complex Disco of Patrice Rushen | June 18, 2019 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen looks at Strut's new collection of disco/R&B innovator Patrice Rushen's Elektra years.
| Big Deal: Strut Records’ new Nigeria 70 Compilation and the legend of Sir Victor Uwaifo | April 2, 2019 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen on the momentous occasion of the release of a new Nigeria 70 compilation.
