Sam Sodomsky
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Aug 25, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Pitchfork
- Top 50K sites
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- Aug 13, 2026
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Lambchop: Punching the Clown (opens the original)
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Nobody tells a story like Kurt Wagner, but then again, who would try to? In “The New World Wave,” a stunner from Lambchop’s new album Punching the Clown, the 66-year-old songwriter spins a generation-spanning yarn that touches on surviving the Great Depression, the patient assemblage of chosen family, and the way unattended dreams can crumble into sellable assets. It’s heavy stuff, but consider how he pulls it off: For a line or two, he gets hung up on a sticky metaphor about hot dogs; he tugs a
Itâs a Good Time to Get Into Audrey Hobert (opens the original)
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When I started working in music media around 10 years ago, I thought Taylor Swift was underrated, which seems like a ridiculous statement to make now. This was in the post-1989 and pre-Reputation days, when each album seemed like an expansion and continuation of its predecessor, each defined by a particular set of influences and imagery, all constellating around an increasingly confident style of writing that felt distinctive in any landscape she placed herself: country, singer-songwriter, pop.
Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Weekend (opens the original)
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Why Phoebe Bridgers? Among all the young singer-songwriters baring their souls behind acoustic guitars in the past decade, what made the 31-year-old California native transcend to become an icon? Was it her voice—a soft, tugging whisper whose full dramatic force she reserved only for maximum impact? Was it her lyrics, which could lull you into a trance and then snap you out with chilling directness and irreverent humor? Was it her way of accompanying these gifts with arrangements infused with a
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