"A leaf driven." Currently lives in Orlando, FL.
About Joey Shook
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Political Age Gaps and Grace in Cooking in My Grandmother’s Ravioli
The Pew Research Center recently released a study that showed results of something that I think we all have known anecdotally for a while: there is a significant and seemingly growing age gap between the two political poles in America. The study shows that the youngest generation, Millenials (18-33 years old in 2014), are increasingly […]
New Music: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly
Inside the liner notes of Kendrick Lamar’s new album, To Pimp A Butterfly, is a picture of Lamar (shown above) sitting in a room with assorted dollar bills scattered around him on the floor. Pictures like this are a common and maybe tired rap trope, typically appearing in magazine spreads and liner notes, rife with […]
Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Ricky Eat Acid’s Aural Law/Gospel
While listening to music, I’ve found there are certain details or aspects in songs that I will tend to gravitate toward or focus on more. A lot of times, these aspects can, in a sense, make or break a song for me and can be something as menial as a specific chord change, a song’s […]
New Music: Father John Misty’s I Love You, Honeybear
Recently while hanging out with some friends, one of our laptops was being passed around as a few of us were selecting favorite Youtube music videos to share. A few days prior, I had watched Father John Misty’s excellent Take Away Show performance of “I Went To The Store One Day” (below) and it was […]
Joyce Manor, Father John Misty, and Other 2014 Favorites
As I’ve gotten older (read: lazier), I’ve had seemingly less time to scour the internet for hours for new music. I think I’ve consumed less and less music each year after college to the point where I always feel the need to play catch-up this time of year when websites start publishing their end of […]
Aphex Twin’s Syro and the Joy of Forgetting (and Remembering)
Enigmatic and revered electronic artist Aphex Twin (real name Richard D. James) released his long awaited new album, Syro, last week, ending a 13-year hiatus that followed his previous album, Drukqs. The new album is–in true Aphex Twin form–a colossally dense and impeccably composed piece of electronic music that morphs, warps, and toils considerably for […]
The Repetitive Hope of Gavin Bryars’s “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet”
I heard Gavin Bryar’s “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet” for the first time in college late one night while perusing the internet for new music. This was during a particularly dark period in my life after a recent breakup where I spent many a night on the internet distracting myself with music blogs, Facebook, […]
Mining Netflix: Giving Up on Being Right in My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend
Mark Twain once said, “Humor is tragedy plus time”. But, how much time? In the fall of 2012, researchers at the University of Colorado examined “how humorous responses to a tragedy change over time by measuring reactions to jokes about Hurricane Sandy”. By studying humorous responses to a tragic situation, they found that, contrary to […]
Mike Powell and Rap’s Bored Hedonism
How do I love Mike Powell? Let me count the ways… He’s been churning out some of the most honest and thoughtful commentary on music that I’ve read in years, all with a refreshing candor and without a trace of heavy-handedness. I mentioned his work before in my Poptimism article, but his writing is very […]
Noise Pollution and Our Personalized Sound Environments
The Atlantic recently ran a great longread from Megan Garber called “Sonic Boom” outlining how digital technology is further transforming the way we interact with sounds or noise that we encounter in our daily lives. Garber profiles throughout history how we’ve interacted with sound as well as current research that seeks to control, contain, and […]
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