Charlie Bertsch

Charlie Bertsch is Zeek's Music Editor. Previously, he was Music Editor at Tikkun. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, Punk Planet, the New Times weeklies and other publications, including the pioneering internet publication Bad Subjects: Political Education For Everyday Life, which he helped to found back in 1993. He has taught literature, film and cultural theory at the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Arizona and Arizona State University. At present, he is working on two book projects, one that considers the fate of cultural criticism in the era of social networking and another that examines the "documentary impulse" in film and literature since Modernism.

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All That Is Rock Melts Into Hope

Fifteen years ago, the alternative music press was fixated on the idea of  “post-rock.” Whether…

The Noise of Middle Age

Advance word on Sonic Youth’s latest record The Eternal was mixed. Some listeners praised it…

American Mizrahi

Considering the religious allusion in the title of Inbar Bakal’s debut album and the fact…

Enterprise Solution: Star Trek and President Barack Obama

Long before the promotional campaign for the new Star Trek film started in earnest, commentators…

A Binational Solution

When a group that hasn’t achieved big mainstream success releases a compilation record, they’re usually…

Infinite Playlist

Discussing the 2008 film Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist for Nextbook, Stuart Klawans noted a…

Moving To the Beat

Let’s Stay Together The receptions held at scholarly conferences tend to be short and not…

Monotonix, live at Club Congress, Tucson, Arizona, 3/25/09

“L’chai-im!,” the boozy voices blare, “L’chai-im!” The surging mass is a sea of open mouths…