Elias has written about music and books for Diffuser, Billboard, The Atlantic, Salon, Time Out New York, and Paste. He is from Northampton, Massachusetts, and can be found at signothetimesblog.
Elias Leight
Classic Influences: The War on Drugs, the Men and the Drive-By Truckers
More and more, artists that exist under the “indie” umbrella are drawing inspiration from iconic, big-budget rock and pop made in the days before indie developed.
This Daft Punk / Jay Z Collaboration Is Most Likely Real and Kinda Blah
The sudden appearance of a song called ‘Computerized’ involving Daft Punk and Jay Z still comes as a shock.
Sounds Apart: Future and Jeremih
The musical landscape periodically rearranges itself around bursts of minimalism that privilege rhythm: funk in the late ‘60s, or the first burgeoning of hip-hop in the late ‘80s.
Prince and His Hair Dropped by Arsenio Hall’s Show Last Night
Let’s get one thing straight about Prince: Don’t touch the man’s hair.