A review I wrote for PopMatters about David S. Ware's triple CD live set Live in the World finally sees the light of day after some technical snafus (it also took a while, truth be told, to fully digest three discs fully packed with extended live free jazz performances). It's the first of what I hope will be many more pieces out there as I try to get back into circulation with music writing.

The Onion's AV Club has a nice Q&A with Brian Wilson this week. Wilson has gone from being one of rock's most reclusive artists to one of its most well documented, and the prospect of yet another sitdown with the increasingly addled star wasn't terribly tempting. Talk turns, as it always does, to Smile, Phil Spector and the Beatles, but Andy Battaglia finds a nice rhythm here and offers the most conversational piece with Wilson in quite some time.