Josh Ejnes

Cassettes of: Phony - Heater Oso Oso - Basking in the Glow State Lines - Hoffman Manor

Tapes

I make sure to get all of my betting recommendations from ESPN Bet Live, the show produced by the people who get paid if you lose

Radiohead: Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) Read Molly Mary O’Brien’s review of the album.

my first pitchfork byline, about the first official radiohead live album since 2001? sure why the hell not

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Bob Dylan's Street-Legal cassette

Underrated Bob. Very good as is and with a few tweaks would be a stone cold classic

Noroi: The Curse is great

Listening to Faces for the first time in a while and even though they're super well known and respected I'm coming away feeling like they're still kind of underrated?

Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks on cassette

Covering this all timer for Tape Study tomorrow, subscribe so you don't miss it

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Text on DVD that reads "Discomfortingly gratuitous even by slasher standards" - Benjamin Strong of The Village Voice

Can you guess the 2005 movie?

Tape Study 13: The Cure, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Misc. Power-Pop, Ray Davies, and Dinosaur Jr. Live albums, compilations, soundtracks, they're all here

*please imagine the below is paired with enticing thumbnail where a guy looks surprised*

You WON'T believe who did cinematography on Ray Davies' directoral debut. Click here to be shocked (and to read about Cymbals Eat Guitars, Dinosaur Jr, and others)

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What are we going to revive after Shoegaze and Nu Metal? I hope it's Big Music

The Best of Badfinger is GOATed when saying "Wait, that's by Badfinger?" is the vibe

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Just relistened to Pretty Years for Tape Study and that's a record that did not get it's due. Arguably stronger than Lose. Like it more every time I hear it.

Shelf with many records standing up, spine out. Too many to write them all here but ones I think would likely be in the running are: Carseat Headrest: Teens of Denial Cloud Nothings: Here and Nowhere Else Deftones: White Pony Clipse: Hell Hath no Fury The dBs: I Thought You Wanted to Know Brandi Carlisle: By the Way I Forgive You Cymbals Eat Guitars: Lose Camp Trash: The Long Way the Slow Way Captain We're Sinking: The Future is Cancelled Death Cab for Cutie: We Have The Facts Death Cab for Cutie: Plans Elvis Costello: King of America

Pick 3.

I'm going Lose, Hell Hath No Fury, Here and Nowhere Else with We Have the Facts just missing the cut

Tape Study 12: CSNY, Crowded House, and The Cure A very Cure edition of the newsletter

Just dropped a very Cure heavy edition of Tape Study. Check it out: tapestudy.substack.com/p/tape-study...

The IDF killed more than 40 people with an airstrike on a coffee shop where Palestinian students go to use the internet and study for exams. www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/m...

The Best of Q2 2025 — Swim Into The Sound We’re halfway through 2025, and it feels like my brain is contorting into shapes it was never meant to hold. Unlike my intro for our favorites of Q1 , I’m going to try my best not to go on a screed, ...

I got to write about the emotionally charged new EP from @carefulgaze.bsky.social for the Best of Q2 round-up on @swimintosound.bsky.social. Please listen to this record. It's only three tracks, but it's as powerful as anything else they've done.

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Coming to think that prime Crowded House is on par with prime Squeeze

I don't mean to belabor the point, but technically speaking, Arthur Russell (d. 1992) has lived in New York City more recently than Andrew Cuomo.

Crowded House's Woodface on cassette

This shit is crazy

Superchunk - Sunny Brixton Listen to Sunny Brixton on your streaming service

Exhibit B: tidal.com/browse/track...

a book with a blue cover, and text that reads the dad rock that made me a woman by niko stratis

It's my birthday a week from today and look, if you're trying to think of the perfect present I think being a bestselling author would be a great way to celebrate turning 43.

Grab a copy of my book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman wherever books are grabbed.

📚🔗: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331484/

Superchunk - February Punk Listen to February Punk on your streaming service

Exhibit A: tidal.com/browse/track...

Never been the biggest outtakes/b-sides guy but listening through Superchunk's Misfits and Mistakes and it's crazy how good some of their non-album stuff is

Truth or Consequences New Mexico - Between GA Listen to Between GA on your streaming service

Randomly dawned on me this weekend how good this release is:

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i honestly do not know what to say, other than if you’re trans, i love you, and if you have trans loved ones, i love them too

Tape Study 11: Cloud Nothings, The Commodores, Elvis Costello, The Cranberries, and Jim Croce Tapes

Wrote about my favorite Cloud Nothing's record and some other great music for this week's Tape Study, check it out:

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Love basically all that he's done but I think that particularly shines through on the Aaron West stuff, so good

Cloud Nothings' Life Without Sound on cassette

Due for more positive reevaluation imo

The Minus 5 - Oar On, Penelope! Listen to Oar On, Penelope! on your streaming service

Don't sleep on this one

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