Sam Hockley-Smith

A Rare Breed of Listener | Ben Ratliff's Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening By Sam Hockley-Smith

Ben Ratliff's new book RUN THE SONG is “a mixtape, a recommendation engine, and a discussion of how music can mutate over time.” 💥

Lace up your running shoes, read @samhockleysmith.bsky.social’s review, & grab the book statvia @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🏃 southwestreview.com/a-rare-breed...

dublab

big nts loyalist but i always have to remind myself to check out dublab . . . enjoying esp @samhockleysmith.bsky.social show these last few months, also always t-kay's "archive of feelings" www.dublab.com/archive/sam-...

The Seinfeld episode about this did not end well

Dispatches from a Dim Cave: On Music at the Margins | Sam Hockley-Smith From the Magazine

🎶 Postgame your holiday w/ some choice music ruminations from the homie @samhockleysmith.bsky.social

Read DISPATCHES FROM A DIM CAVE: ON MUSIC AT THE MARGINS from our music issue 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...

a hulking man who seemingly collapses his bones in order to fit down chimneys, who has been watching you all year to see if you deserve presents, and also he's gonna eat some of your snacks and even if you hear him you can't acknowledge it...? I can see it.

ring in the holidays with an audio clip of David Wojnarowicz saying "mostly I don't want to fucking die." followed immediately by glistening, dripping new guitarwork from Fennesz. It's exactly how our ancestors celebrated.

That's right, it's your old pal me, but on dublab.com from 4-6pm PST with my year end special, where I don't acknowledge the human concept of a "year" at all and instead just play lots of music that more or less sounds good together, regardless of when it came out. Listen in!

Binge watching all 15,000 episodes of Days of our Lives

Home Alone 2 is about the perils of technology

feels not unrealistic that some label guy somewhere was like, "hey Korn could you maybe do a song about how we suck?" "Hey Alien Ant Farm, can you bury a song about how you find the music industry machine inscrutable midway through your album?"

echoes of GZA's A&R mountain climber who plays an electric guitar, etc

An interesting thing about nu metal and other popular heavy music at the turn of the century is how much of it was very vocally about being disgusted with the music industry they were participating in

Was just on Twitter and it was a bunch of Trumpy gen x and boomer guys talking about New York at Christmas time

My totally unfounded theory is that these videos really took off during the pandemic when restaurants that were difficult to get into or didn’t offer takeout were suddenly more accessible and it kind of fueled the whole trend and the aesthetic stuck. I completely made this up but I like it.

Every third Wednesday of the month, you can catch me playing music on @dublab.bsky.social from 4-6pm pacific, which means...I'm on right now as we speak. Tune in at dublab.com if you want to feel calm or want to approximate the illusion of calm while staring off into the middle distance

Thinking about becoming one of those comedians where I just get on stage and let out a huge long sigh and everyone laughs for like 3 minutes straight before I even say one word

The Kinetic Spell of Arthur Russell | Richard King’s Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life By Sam Hockley-Smith

TRAVELS OVER FEELING, “a hybrid oral history coffee-table book” about Arthur Russell by Richard King is out now via Anthology 🎻

We can't wait to snag this beauty, but before we do, @samhockleysmith.bsky.social gives us the full rundown. Read his review below...👇 southwestreview.com/the-kinetic-...

Perfectly Imperfect | Two Books for Analog Aficionados By Sam Hockley-Smith

Attn: you are now entering lo-fi country w/ yer host @samhockleysmith.bsky.social 🔊

Go deep into the world of analog w/ his review of HIGH BIAS by @marcissist.bsky.social (via @uncpress.bsky.social ) & THE GREAT PSYCHIC OUTDOORS by Enrico Monacelli 💥 southwestreview.com/perfectly-im...

Thinking about becoming a Quora guy

Oh I am here

I wrote about some good new music from Olympia, Washington. I place I have a very complicated relationship to: grosslife.substack.com/p/three-six-oh

Am I Doing The Right Thing? Trying to write through it

Doing anything on Twitter except making jokes is no longer fun, so I'm going to promote this here instead. I wrote a newsletter for the first time in over a year! I would like to write it more regularly from now on! Hold me accountable? grosslife.substack.com/p/am-i-doing...

I love how this site is like “your post has been published” when you write something like “ah yes your magnificent words have blessed cyberspace”

Whoa this is so sick

When will they remake Batteries Not Included

So much of parenting is just opening various toys with the smallest Phillips-Head screwdriver you can find

Has anyone complained to an airline on here yet