music journalist since 1992 | educator since 2004 | podcaster since 2020 | Iranian American since birth
SPIN‘s executive editor Liza Lentini on My 2025 Year in Review: Liza Lentini, Executive Editor which includes many of my pieces.
Chronologically:
Songs That Made Me a Songwriter: Justin Tranter
Victoria Canal is Totally Fucking Fine
Irish Band Inhaler is Reborn
Someone’s in the Kitchen With Gavin
‘Death is All About Perspective’: How TOKiMONSTA is Learning to Push Forward
Smoke Signals: The Intimate Universe of Cigarettes After Sex
Sun’s Out, Guns Out: L.A. Guns Still Know How to Rock
The Many Lives of Domino Kirke
40 Years Later, Andy Bell is Still Lifting People Up
Simple Minds is Alive and Kicking
The Sparks Effect: Ron and Russell Mael’s Enduring Magic
The Church of BLOND:ISH
Island Time: From Dance Floors to Yacht Rock, the Ting Tings Ride A New Wave
Belinda Gets ‘Indomita’
25 Songs That Still Believe in Peace
The Best Albums of 1995
The Shirley Manson Manifesto
Suede Are Having the Best Decade of Their Lives
Richard Ashcroft on Time, Truth, and the Battle for the Human Soul
40 Greatest Musicians of the Last 40 Years
The Charlatans on Grief, Love, and Why They Keep Going
The Last Dinner Party’s Second Course
Amy Allen on the Five Songs That Changed Everything
For Azam Ali, Music is Where She Goes to Tell the Truth
Check out Liza’s whole list:
My 2025 Year in Review: Liza Lentini, Executive Editor
12 Months of Relentless Storytelling Throughout a Packed Year of Music Coverage