Pop Shield: Perspectives on Music Past and Present

Music fanatics Gabe, Dan, and Darin (formerly of the Metafork Music Review) use your favorite artists and albums to get at bigger trends and phenomena in the world of popular music.

Ranking Every Song on Radiohead’s Kid A 10/03/2020

The Top 5 Autumn Albums 09/19/2020

Cocteau Twins’ Heaven or Las Vegas Turns 30 09/04/2020

Revisiting The Microphones’ The Glow Pt. 2 (and Microphones in 2020!) 08/21/2020

BONUS: Lou Reed and Neil Young (Flashback!) 08/07/2020

Reassessing Pink Floyd and Meddle 07/24/2020

Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways, One Last Masterpiece? 07/09/2020

Learning to Love 100 gecs 06/26/2020

The Top 5 Albums of 1970 06/11/2020

Learning to Love Devo 05/29/2020

Pavement’s Wowee Zowee Turns 25 05/15/2020

Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters, a Perfect 10? 05/01/2020

1987 vs. 1988 vs. 1989 04/17/2020

Revisiting Joy Division’s Closer 04/03/2020

Learning to Love Fishmans’ Long Season 03/20/2020

Beethoven’s 5th Symphony (and How to Get Into Classical) 03/05/2020

Ranking Every Song on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless 02/21/2020

John Coltrane’s Ascension vs. Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz (and How to Get Into Free Jazz) 02/07/2020

Revisiting Modest Mouse’s Good News for People Who Love Bad News 01/23/2020

The Top 5 Albums of 2019 01/10/2020

BONUS: Prince's Purple Rain, Song by Song (Flashback!) 12/19/2019

Ranking Every Song on Prince’s 1999 12/07/2019

Learning to Love Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica 11/23/2019

Yandhi, Jesus Is King, and the Last Year of Kanye West 11/07/2019

The Top 10 Albums of the 2010s (and Pitchfork's Awful List!) 10/25/2019

BONUS: Ranking Every Song on The Beatles' Sgt. Peppers (Flashback!) 10/18/2019

Ranking Every Song on The Beatles’ Abbey Road 10/10/2019

Revisiting the Wu-Tang Clan’s Wu-Tang Forever 09/26/2019

Learning to Love Burial's Untrue 09/12/2019

BONUS: Car Seat Headrest's Twin Fantasy (Flashback!) 09/05/2019