Nonfiction
Stephen Carradini
The New Yorker hired Ellen Willis as its first pop music critic in 1968. She wrote the monthly “Rock, Etc.” column for the magazine until 1975.
Friday 24 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: odd future
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music — Nona Willis Aronowitz, ed.
A fascinating republishing of an unfairly forgotten seminal rock critic’s work
Nonfiction
Stephen Carradini
The New Yorker hired Ellen Willis as its first pop music critic in 1968. She wrote the monthly “Rock, Etc.” column for the magazine until 1975.
Tech N9ne — All 6’s and 7’s
Worth a couple spins by the average hip-hop fan
Hip Hop/Rap
Ryan Querbach
Tech N9ne’s newest effort, “All 6’s and 7’s,” shows how underrated he is as a rapper.
Methotrexate — Camelpacks & Battlerapz
Hip Hop/Rap
Joshua Boydston
Just in his early 20s, Oklahoma City’s Methotrexate is an original in a genre inundated with anyone having access to a mic and a MacBook.
