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Writers - Ben Tausig
Features
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2002: Loose Ends (Ben Tausig)
Ben Tausig discusses two things that occurred in 2002: The death of Alan Lomax and the Electroclash trend.
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A Day In The Life - Outkast and Magnetic Fields live in NYC
Dusted's Ben Tausig reviews a 7 a.m. Outkast show followed by a 7 p.m. Magnetic Fields show Friday in New York City. Read this feature...
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An Argument Against Year-End Lists
Dusted senior writer Ben Tausig explains why he hates the music industry’s favorite time of year. Read this feature...
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Bonnie Does Irving
Dusted's Ben Tausig witnesses a rambunctious Will Oldham on Jan. 29 at Irving Plaza in New York City Read this feature...
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Destined: Friends Forever
Dusted's Ben Tausig interviews Joshua Taylor of the world's best van band, Friends Forever. Read this feature...
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Destined: Julianna Barwick
Dusted’s Ben Tausig profiles Brooklyn experimental vocalist and Destined selection Julianna Barwick. Read this feature...
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Dusted Crossword #2: Of Noble Descent
Dusted's Ben Tausig brings you the second of our intermittently regular Dusted crossword puzzles. Read this feature...
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Dusted Crossword #3
Dusted's Ben Tausig brings you the second of our (very) intermittently regular Dusted crossword puzzles. Read this feature...
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Dusted Crossword #4: The JBs
Dusted's Ben Tausig returns with a crossword dedicated to the late James Brown. Read this feature...
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Dusted Crossword Puzzle #1
Dusted's Ben Tausig, a professional puzzle-maker in his spare time, contributes his first ever Dusted-appropriate crossword puzzle. Read this feature...
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Ethiopiques 17: Tlahoun Gessesse, 1970-1977 by Ben Tausig
Dusted's Ben Tausig reflects on the album that mattered the most to him in 2004. Read this feature...
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Face the Musician: Bombino’s Agadez
Face the Musician is based on the idea that discussion of an album shouldn’t end with its review, because there’s always more to say. So we invite the musician back — not to critique the review, but to talk about their work with the review as a conversation piece. Read this feature...
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Face the Musician: Destroyer’s Kaputt
Face the Musician is based on the idea that discussion of an album shouldn’t end with its review, because there’s always more to say. So we invite the musician back — not to critique the review, but to talk about their work with the review as a conversation piece. Read this feature...
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Face the Musician: EFFI BRIEST’s Rhizomes
Face the Musician is based on the idea that discussion of an album shouldn’t end with its review, because there’s always more to say. So we invite the musician back — not to critique the review, but to talk about their work with the review as a conversation piece. Read this feature...
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Face the Musician: Oneida and Rated O
For the first installment in our Face the Musician series, Ben Tausig sent our review of Oneida’s Rated O to Oneida drummer Kid Millions and followed up with questions about the critiques and the compliments. Read this feature...
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Face the Musician: Sidi Touré’s Sahel Folk
Face the Musician is based on the idea that discussion of an album shouldn’t end with its review, because there’s always more to say. So we invite the musician back — not to critique the review, but to talk about their work with the review as a conversation piece. Read this feature...
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Face the Musician: Six Organs of Admittance and Luminous Night
For the second installment in our Face the Musician series, Ben Tausig sent our review of Six Organs of Admittance’s Luminous Night to Ben Chasny and followed up with questions about the critiques and the compliments. (In this case, pretty much the compliments.) Read this feature...
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Fifteen Candles: The Music Scholar on Merge Records
Merge Records celebrates its 15th birthday this July. Dusted's Ben Tausig tracked down The Music Scholar to put Merge's accomplishments in perspective. Read this feature...
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Free Admission:
Coming to Terms with Writing about Music
Dusted's Ben Tausig takes a look at the role of music criticism and its potential (and ceiling) as a tool and a companion. The options for discovering different kinds of music journalism and criticism today are abundant, even saturated, but how much of it is a good read? And what makes it so? Comment on this piece at Dusted's forum. Read this feature...
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From Beyond The Grave: A Chat With Death Vessel
Fresh off an opening slot with Iron and Wine, Death Vessel's Joel Thibodeau gives Dusted's Ben Tausig the skinny on his band, his debut record and the Mandan Dink. Read this feature...
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From the Inside, Honoring the Outside
Ben Tausig spoke with noted eccentromusicologist Irwin Chusid, who recently released the second volume of the Songs in The Key of Z series. This series documents "the curious universe of outsider music," where strange and heartfelt sounds rise above the din of musical predictability. But there is more to the concept of "outsider music" than meets the eye. . . Read this feature...
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Interviews Will Oldham
Dusted's Ben Tausig speaks with Drag City recording artist Will Oldham. Read this feature...
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James Marcel Stinson Obituary
Ben Tausig writes about the man behind Drexciya and his indisputable place atop the electro lexicon. Read this feature...
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New York Noise
Dusted's Ben Tausig takes a look at New York's new noise-regulating ordinance. Read this feature...
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Pacific Trim - A Preview of 2003's ATP Pacific
Dusted's Ben Tausig talks to The Magic Band's John "Drumbo" French and The Danielson Famile's Daniel Smith in his preview of this year's All Tomorrow's Parties Pacific, curated by Simpsons creater Matt Groening. Read this feature...
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Past the Blues - An Interview with David Berman
Dusted's Ben Tausig speaks with Silver Jews founding father David Berman. Read this feature...
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R.I.P. George Jones
Ben Tausig was moved to write about the capital-A artistry of the legendary country singer. Read this feature...
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Smoldering Ashes and Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons DVD
Dusted's Ben Tausig checks out Gandulf Hennig's recent Gram Parsons movie, Fallen Angel. Read this feature...
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The Resistant Language
Dusted's Ben Tausig reacts to and interacts with Plunderphonicists Evolution Control Committee and discusses the nature of sampled sounds. Read this feature...
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Tresor talks: The Dusted Interview
Dusted's Ben Tausig and Tresor Records' Carola Stoiber met up at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival this year to discuss the DEMF controversy, Tresor, German politics and the resurgence of electro. Read this feature...
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Reviews
Should the dancefloor call upon you, do not scorn it
Artist: Antonelli Electr. Album: Love and Other Solutions Label: Italic Review date: Jan. 5, 2003 Read This Review
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Artist: Baby Huey Album: Living Legend: The Baby Huey Story Label: Water Review date: Jan. 30, 2005 Read This Review
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Van Not Included
Artist: Friends Forever Album: Killball Label: Load Review date: Jul. 31, 2003 Read This Review
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Micro-managing Cultural Rifts
Artist: Jan Jelinek Avec the Exposures Album: La Nouvelle Pauvreté Label: ~scape Review date: Apr. 3, 2003 Read This Review
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A Tough Act To Follow
Artist: LCD Soundsystem Album: Give It Up 7" Label: DFA Review date: Jan. 21, 2003 Read This Review
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Artist: Lightning Bolt Album: Earthly Delights Label: Load Review date: Oct. 5, 2009 Read This Review
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Artist: The Magic Band Album: Back to the Front Label: ATP Review date: Sep. 19, 2003 Read This Review
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Artist: The Other People Place Album: Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe Label: Warp Review date: Mar. 31, 2002 Read This Review
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Artist: Kelley Polar Album: I Need You to Hold On While the Sky is Falling Label: Environ Review date: Mar. 4, 2008 Read This Review
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Another Hip Hop Crossover
Artist: Pole Album: Pole Label: Mute Review date: Jul. 16, 2003 Read This Review
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Artist: The Rapture Album: In the Grace of Your Love Label: DFA Review date: Sep. 1, 2011 Read This Review
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Artist: Arthur Russell Album: Calling Out Of Context Label: Audika Review date: Feb. 19, 2004 Read This Review
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Unaverage Pop from Southeast Michigan
Artist: Saturday Looks Good To Me Album: All Your Summer Songs Label: Polyvinyl Review date: Apr. 10, 2003 Read This Review
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Robots Frolic in an Idyllic Place; All is Well
Artist: Nobukazu Takemura Album: 10th Label: Thrill Jockey Review date: Feb. 13, 2003 Read This Review
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Speaking Softly and Consistently and Beautifully
Artist: Tarwater Album: Dwellers on the Threshold Label: Mute Review date: Nov. 20, 2002 Read This Review
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Keep Some Steady Friends Around
Artist: V/A Album: Triple R Friends Label: Kompakt Review date: Mar. 27, 2003 Read This Review
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Artist: V/A Album: The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz and Molam from Thailand 1964 -1975 Label: Soundway Review date: Jun. 22, 2011 Read This Review
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Artist: V/A Album: Thai? Dai!: The Heavier Sound of the Luk Thung Underground Label: B-Music Review date: Apr. 14, 2011 Read This Review
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Artist: Fred Weinberg Album: The Weinberg Method of Non-synthetic Electronic Rock Label: Normal Review date: Jul. 29, 2002 Read This Review
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The Next Stars of Noise
Artist: Wolf Eyes Album: Slicer Label: Hanson Review date: Nov. 24, 2002 Read This Review
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Vacations in Dub
Artist: Zorn Album: Cruel Summer Label: k2o Review date: May. 5, 2003 Read This Review
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