Steve Smith

A paperback book titled ‘Make a Zine,’ by Joe Biel.

Imagine something of your very own, something you can have and hold…

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

There were quite a few to choose from! ‘The Battle of Algiers,’ ‘Andrei Rublev,’ ‘Blow-Up,’ ‘A Man for All Seasons,’ ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,’ ‘Tokyo Drifter’…

hat tip @darkforcesswing.bsky.social of course.

Volume One, by Steve Asheim 10 track album

And I thought the Albini Fugazi demos were going to be the most unexpected thing I heard today… nope, that would be Deicide drummer Steve Asheim playing his original piano music alongside pieces by Chopin, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff. 🤘 steveasheim.bandcamp.com/album/volume...

For the Record: March 6, 2026. Bandcamp Friday brings an orchestral gem by Qasim Naqvi amid many more new releases and coming attractions.

For the Record: March 6, 2026.

Bandcamp Friday brings an orchestral gem by Qasim Naqvi amid many more new releases and coming attractions.

Photograph: Qasim Naqvi by Smriti Keshari

Hannah Marshall Dave Tucker - Lawns

Dave Tucker double bass & violin
Hannah Marshall cello

released March 6, 2026
scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/lawns

Mind the gap. Listings resources during a hopefully brief interruption.

Mind the gap.
Listings resources during a hopefully brief interruption.

The Last Ember Impossible Creatures meets The Mysterious Benedict Society in this epic, fast-paced upper-middle grade fantasy full of dragon-like creatures, heroic hijinks, battle-forged friendships, and sharp hu…

More about the author and her mighty fine tome: lilyberlindodd.com/books/the-la...

A very different look for me, but can't overstate how much I've enjoyed reading Lily Berlin Dodd's debut YA novel, 'The Last Ember,' with my 12-yr-old each night. We're likely poised to finish it tonight—but I don't WANT to. (And the next volume is nine months away…)

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982; Carl Reiner). A picture-perfect spoof of film noir detective flicks with Steve Martin and a never more alluring Rachel Ward interacting with vintage clips of Bogart, Cagney, Hepburn, Laughton, etc. The final work of Edith Head and Miklós Rózsa. An all-time favorite.

Stopping into a bookstore so I can pick up something that might make me stop rage-scrolling on the subway.

Confront Recordings present
CON-STRUCT

Binker Golding / John Edwards / Steve Noble
+
Maggie Nicols / Lascelle Gordon / Mark Wastell

King Alfred Phoenix Theatre, London. 17 April 2026, 7.00pm

For the Record: Feb. 27, 2026. Sarah Kirkland Snider, Oker, Chris Pitsiokos, Tomeka Reid, Yvonne Rogers, and more new releases and coming attractions.

For the Record: Feb. 27, 2026.
Sarah Kirkland Snider, Oker, Chris Pitsiokos, Tomeka Reid, Yvonne Rogers, and more new releases and coming attractions.
Photograph: Sarah Kirkland Snider, by Anja Schütz

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

FTLOG no

There is no special category of “junk food” that is responsible for everybody’s weight.

“TV ads” are something many, many people hardly ever see anymore.

Addressing problems in the corporate food industry is a great idea. But “they make cookies seem delicious!” is not the main issue.

Sugar Mountain, by Goose from the album 2025/12/12 Goosemas: Show Upon Time, Providence, RI

So much troubles in the world and right now this is hitting me where it counts. goosetheband.bandcamp.com/track/sugar-...

Dystopiate - Infiltrator (Single), by I Heart Noise 3 track album

Any metalheads in the audience? Looking at you @florgoth.bsky.social and @blastbeatsfetish.bsky.social

Some bm/crust/d-beat out of Boston for you this #bandcampfriday - via @dystopiate777.bsky.social

iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/dystop...

Musique de notre temps (1976) by Éliane Radigue album cover. Photograph of Radigue at the controls of a large analogue synthesiser, with the entire image tinted very light pink.

'Music recorded through the late 60s and 70s was released during the 2000s, and the extraordinary focus Radigue had maintained over the period of half a century became clear, revealing a sound world that few had previously had chance of hearing.'

Remembering Éliane Radigue

buff.ly/gevaoCH

RIP to Éliane Radigue (1932-2026)

thank you for taking my ears to places beyond...
places of suspended time...

a huge influence.

MATA Presents at Carnegie Hill Concerts: “STRING QUARTET” A World Premiere composed by Kebra Seyoun Charles performed by DragonBoot Quartet

With apologies, a newsletter today is unlikely due to a work backlog bigger than the snow drifts outside. But don't forget the MATA Festival is presenting DragonBoot Quartet in a world premiere by Kebra Seyoun Charles tonight at 7:30pm; details here. www.eventbrite.com/e/mata-prese...

TMBBLMC might be too long to become one of those snappy little ubiquitous things like WTAF or TL;DR but it should always be procedural bedrock.

Pears is the correctest answer.

I’m not doom-scrolling… it’s much worse, I’m flipping through big-time journalists complaining about how ppl on this app hate journalism and the Real Discourse only happens on the fashy pornfake machine. Huh.

Snow Tides, by Erik Wøllo 10 track album

SNOW TIDES by @erikwollo.bsky.social is the perfect soundtrack to ride out the next 48 hours on the East Coast, And it's Name-Your-Price. Enjoy! #Snowpocalypse #snowmageddon2026 projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/snow-t...

Thank you, Will, that truly means a lot.

This on a broad scale, combined with my continued sour simmer over the way my previous “career” utterly disintegrated in barely a year or so.

I confess I’ve been too squeamish to see a lot of the commonly cited heavy titles here, and horror is not a genre I indulge in so there go the A24 creepshows. So mine are The House of Yes and (yes, really) Poor Things.