My new job + new album reviews (Julie Doiron, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, more)

Exciting news: I have a new part-time job! It’s for a really awesome new music and culture site called Critical Mob, and I’ll be uploading/managing content and photos, as well as doing a lot of writing. Please check out the site and let me know what you think! It launched pretty quietly but the guys who run it (who are fantastic, and I’m so excited to be working for/with them) have some great stuff in the works.

Below are some recent reviews I’ve written for the site. A couple of them are rewrites of pieces of mine that originally appeared on the East Village Radio blog last year (the CM guys used to provide the content for the EVR blog), and some are totally new. They’re not necessarily new records though; some are part of our Top 25 of 2009 and others are on my own personal best-of list (not on the site yet).

Phoenix’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Yo La Tengo’s Popular Songs
Dark was The Night compilation
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ It’s Blitz!
Julie Doiron’s I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
Discovery’s LP

And between this and my other writing gigs, I am thrilled to say that I am actually freelancing full-time now–like, actually supporting myself completely off of music writing/Web-related work and not a combination of that + my savings–and I couldn’t be happier!