Paul de Revere, Erik Burg, Tyler Andere and I discuss being a young music writer, not living in New York, blogging vs. journalism and more. (Inspired by those great advice posts from the other day.)

GIANT-SIZED year-end podcast with the incomparable Jeremy D. Larson is up on YouTube and iTunes for your post-Mayan apocalypse, pre-Christmas pleasure. (Update: should be up on iTunes as soon as the Ghost of Podcasts Past pushes a button.)

New podcast: talking Jews, rap and black Bar Mitzvahs with Simon Vozick-Levinson and David Goldstein. Grab it on iTunes. Apologies for the initial audio issues, we fix ‘em at the 2 minute mark. 

This week’s podcast: Evan Abeele of Memoryhouse joins us for a fall music preview, a discussion of the year’s best records and his own band’s new direction. You can also subscribe on iTunes.

Tested out a new mic set-up for this one which came out a little glitchy — sorry about that. 

New podcast! William Goodman and I talk comic books. On iTunes shortly. 

Rawkblog Presents, Episode 5: Jacob Silverman and I talk about his piece “Against Enthusiasm,” lit blogs, the power of Twitter and more. Come for the serious discussion, stay for Jacob’s adorable cat. You can also subscribe on iTunes.

Rawkblog Presents, Episode 4: Is Food the New Indie Rock? Probably! We talk DIY restaurants, “rock star” chefs and much, much more. Download the audio over on Rawkblog. iTunes is coming as soon as they decide it’s good enough for their fancy store. 

New podcast! Greg and I discuss LCD Soundsystem and “Shut Up and Play the Hits.” Spoiler: it’s amazing.

Download the audio on Rawkblog.

Mark Humphrey, screenwriter, law student and my former colleague at the UCLA Daily Bruin, joins Rawkblog Presents to discuss blockbuster film The Dark Knight Rises. We cover its successes and failures, its place in Nolan’s Batman trilogy, and the future of superhero movies. Watch Episode 2 above or download it on Rawkblog.

Previously: Episode 1, Pitchfork Fest (Chris Ott, Paul De Revere)