The King of Whys

Mike Kinsella expresses ugly sentiments with inverse beauty in Owen's acoustic-heavy return.

Draw a line down the middle of Owen’s discography and you’ll find two distinctly different Mike Kinsellas. Having started the project in 2001 following the breakup of American Football, Kinsella took to recording albums all by himself, sometimes in his old bedroom at his mom’s house. Between 2001 and 2006, Kinsella…

Fresh off the American Football reunion, the emo legend turns in his most mature and sonically pretty collection of songs to date.

The eighth solo album by American Football’s Mike Kinsella is a confident - if slightly unadventurous - addition.

Having reunited both American Football and Owls in recent years, Mike Kinsella unleashes the eighth album of his Owen solo project. It's a subtle triumph.

Over the course of 15 years, prolific Chicago indie musician Mike Kinsella has logged several quality albums of contemplative and soft-spoke...

Mike Kinsella has been trapped in an involuntary persona for the better part of two decades. Call it arrested development, but the American Football