This American Football profile is amazing. Apparently the band reuniting made two of them go through divorces, they’re all struggling with alcohol, and the new album might be their best yet(??) www.gq.com/story/americ...
Reviewed the debut album by Katzin for @pitchfork.com For fans of earnest bedroom pop sprinkled with a love of early Orchid Tapes pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
An immigration judge has found there were no grounds to deport a Turkish graduate student who was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian opinion article for her student newspaper. nyti.ms/4tAxM0X
Engaging in schadenfreude (reading “Wuthering Heights” reviews)
@chrisrichards.bsky.social, one of the best writers on here and the Post's pop critic for the past 15+ years, just launched a new Substack and I'd highly recommend supporting it thefutureisourstomake.substack.com
The Washington Post Guild launched a GoFundMe to support the 300 writers who were laid off from the Post today www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
Thinking about the Brits I scarred last night by not only introducing them to Hershey’s for the first time but explaining US college debt
So upset. What do you mean Arthur Russell’s new wave band The Necessaries got a deluxe reissue of their output and I’m only just finding out about it? omnivorerecordings.com/shop/complet...
Finally read @simonwilliam.bsky.social's piece on the state of touring in indie rock and it's...not pretty www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism.
www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...
Great record!
Discovery thanks to the eternally great @see-saw.fun see-saw.fun/paper-jam-on...
Mad at all my indie pop and Texas friends who did not tell me about this perfect twee pop album that came out last year paperjammusic.bandcamp.com/album/this-a...
Don't have the movie or religious knowhow for it, but there probably is a good piece to be written about Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold both making grand spectacle films dealing with religious identities neither is directly connected to
Surprise surprise, the new Joshua Chuquimia Crampton song is stunning joshuachuquimiacrampton.bandcamp.com/album/anata
I think they've tried a few times. I think the executives keep trying to change too much or water it down, and Smith is not game for that (thankfully)
Reviewed the new Winged Wheel album for @pitchfork.com, a supergroup of sorts made up of members of Sonic Youth, Spray Paint, Water Damage playing cosmic krautrock and experimental post punk. I dug it quite a bit pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Daniel Stewart, the singer of Total Control, has finally started a new band, and if the first single is any indication it’s going to be just as great staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/statio...
Reviewed the new Winged Wheel album for @pitchfork.com, a supergroup of sorts made up of members of Sonic Youth, Spray Paint, Water Damage playing cosmic krautrock and experimental post punk. I dug it quite a bit pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Haven’t seen too many talk about it, but The Bats put out a new album last month and it’s pretty stunning thebats.bandcamp.com/album/corner...
The Trump administration plans to restrict gender transition care for minors by barring medical providers from receiving federal health insurance reimbursements if they offer such services. https://wapo.st/3Y3846I
Here’s a good overview on the new crop of jangle pop kids that went up just yesterday by @haydenmerrick.bsky.social (found out about Autocamper through this) daily.bandcamp.com/features/ind...
New Sharp Pins album is great/Kai Slater being 3 for 3 this year in terms of albums is truly impressive sharppins.bandcamp.com/album/balloo...
At least with for genres people are resurrecting that I don’t like (nü-metal, emo pop punk) I at least can see what would make it fun, or what would be appealing about it. This truly just feels like nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. Who asked for this?!
Checked this out of morbid curiosity cuz this review is going around my corner of social media and I’m kind of aghast that it exists. Just some of the blandest, most uninteresting takes on early 2000s radio rock that was already some of the blandest music that existed! pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
There is a fantastic mix of scrappy, rough and tumble indie pop coming from the Midwest, and I got to write about one of my favorites, Good Flying Birds’ Talulah Tape for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
There is a fantastic mix of scrappy, rough and tumble indie pop coming from the Midwest, and I got to write about one of my favorites, Good Flying Birds’ Talulah Tape for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Still got the mix CD after all this time
Back in 2010, my friend Tom made me a mix CD with a slightly obscure @dischord.com band on it that I quickly became obsessed with. 15 years later Black Eyes have finally put out a new album and I got to review it for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
