Zachary Lipez

I absolutely love the latest entry in our new North American music column

North American Music: tQ in New York City, by Maxelle Talena New York isn’t dead, says Maxelle Talena in the latest of tQ’s dispatches from the North American underground. It’s being killed.

My absolute fave MaxelleTalena has her first piece up at The Quietus this week and it’s a doozy: trü underground nyc noise and pop narcotics, w/ H20 and Michael Rappaport slander thrown in for taste. I guarantee that this is the stuff not covered anywhere else. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

150 Best Albums of 1986 I know it’s the equivalent of rock bands whining about how tired they are of always playing their biggest hit (“No way will I do that bloody wedding song!,” a solo-tour-prepping Robert Plant once prom...

2000 or so words on my 150 favorite albums from 1986 + questionable claims I made in a famous Creem profile I wrote about the Beastie Boys back then, such as whether metal or rap had a better year & were major labels as bad as I thought, & how come I left out that Prince album everybody loves now.

North American Music: tQ in New York City, by Maxelle Talena New York isn’t dead, says Maxelle Talena in the latest of tQ’s dispatches from the North American underground. It’s being killed.

The latest @thequietus.com column looking at US music scenes/communities reaches the Big Apple: "There’s a lot to be mad about and there’s a lot to fight for. I love this city, and I genuinely believe that we will continue to adapt and make great art no matter what."

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I’m doing this reading on Sunday with a bunch of people who are half my age and twice as smart as me so come laugh and jeer at the display I will put on! Also not sure what I’ll read as I’ve never been cheated on (too handsome).

'New York isn’t dead, says Maxelle Talena, it’s being killed. From jumpstyle to hardcore punk, from hip hop to garage rock, she introduces five key artists keeping the flame alive'

North American Music: tQ in New York City, by Maxelle Talena

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That’s amazing. I didn’t know you worked at Fort Apache. Have you written about your time there?

It’s funny cos you hear minutemen and I hear, like, that Sandy Denny art rock album and critics in 1990 were like “oh yah that happens when a chick is schizophrenic.”

They were fantastic. I didn’t know it was her son on bass which was just sweet as hell.

Going to see Throwing Muses for the first time tonight and I’m so excited I might puke.

“The Grammys remain an industry awards show that can only tell us what the music business thinks of itself. When we shovel Grammy victories into our history books, we are participating in a corporate history, not a people’s history.” MY GUY.

The timeline where LCD Soundsystem signed to Hospital.

Being cleverly petty AND righteous in that pettiness is honestly 🧑🏻‍🍳💋

Mamdani quoted Mario Cuomo *and* referenced the Good Cuomo’s 1984 speech about Reagan’s “shining city on a hill.” Not sure if people are fully appreciating our new mayor’s scope of vision & history, love of language & heritage, or his apparent willingness to put that knife in a motherfucker.

You guys should all resurrect your Twitter accounts. It’s so funny over there right now.

It was a verrrrrry funny couple of days. Like, I was being called a fascist.

BREAKING NEWS! Mayoral candidate @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social plummeting in polls after hot mic captures him mutter “‘Geese are the new Strokes,’ my ass.”

it’s disintegration discourse season already??? Great! I’ve never gotten so many abusive posts from hammer & sickle avatars as when I said on Twitter that Disintegration is indirectly/directly why so much alt metal is atmospheric mush. (I like disintegration tbc… but boy has it had a bad influence)

Best Albums of 1989 Most of the music Joshua Clover (a/k/a the late Associate Professor Formerly Known as Jane Dark) writes about in his 2009 book 1989 did not technically come out in 1989.

I hear there's a "meme" going around (not that I've seen much meming myself) regarding favorite albums of 198-NINE. The number. Sound of the funky drummer. That said, here's mine, plus 2100+ words on the end of history, end of the '80s, end of welfare as we know it, a Joshua Clover book, and more.

Zach’s gonna play Mike Scheidt’s yacht rock cover band some Star Wars tribute music during his DJ set so come on out! Also I curated this art show it’s my first time curating an art show and I’m very stoked on the art!

Come Hear An Excerpt From THE TORTURE AND DELIVERANCE OF MAJID KHAN Next week, I'll be reading from the manuscript of my forthcoming second book. Come out to Pete's Candy Store on Thursday, Nov. 6

I finished drafting my 2nd book. It’s about someone who lived through the worst depravity the CIA & the US military could inflict; & also about his dad, who came under FBI investigation by association.

Next Thursday at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn, I’m going to debut a chapter. Check it out:

Hey wanna see me play niche yob rock and proto-grebo from my computer at an art show sponsored by Brooklyn’s greatest defunct heavy metal club???!!! It’s gonna be great, so you better!

Hey wanna see me play niche yob rock and proto-grebo from my computer at an art show sponsored by Brooklyn’s greatest defunct heavy metal club???!!! It’s gonna be great, so you better!

Good stuff. Geese isn't for me, but I've been a lil confused by the stray shots of discourse flying by. This helped orient me on that.

But, to be fair the stuff I'm obsessed with right now is like, Skinhead, the D4 comp that just came out, and an old John Cale record, so I'm far from the target.

Oh yeah lol I saw that but it was behind the paywall and I didn’t feel like trying to get around it (or, heaven forbid, pay).

Abundant Living Don't drag your orchestra into this thing

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I'm just hanging out with it, mind doped up by those drums!, while I wait for the new Geese album to save me.
Here's a great read (fun even!) about those who've already been saved and those who refuse to believe.

Every time Eddy posts one of these I end up giving all my money to iTunes.

A flyer for an art show at Selva in Bushwick presented by Saint Vitus and Selva, featuring a photo by Nikki Sneakers of the facade of Saint Vitus. Flyer text: Saint Vitus and Selva present: INTO THE NIGHT A GROUP ART SHOW AT SELVA OPENING PARTY 10/30 @ 8PM DJ SETS BY ZACHARY LIPEZ, BEN DANGER, & MALICIOUS BEQUEATHOR FEATURING WORK BY: HISHAM BHAROOCHA • ALEX CROCETTI CAROLINE HARRISON • FRANK HUANG JIKKI SNEAKERS • JOSTIN WEATHERHOLTZ IMAGE BY NIKKI SNEAKERS ON VIEW 10/30 - 11/4 AT SELVA 1329 WILLOUGHBY AVE, BROOKLYN, NY

A flyer for an art show at Selva in Bushwick presented by Saint Vitus and Selva, featuring a black and white drawing by Alex Crocetti. Flyer text: Saint Vitus and Selva present: INTO THE NIGHT A GROUP ART SHOW AT SELVA OPENING PARTY 10/30 @ 8PM DJ SETS BY ZACHARY LIPEZ, BEN DANGER, & MALICIOUS BEQUEATHOR FEATURING WORK BY: HISHAM BHAROOCHA • ALEX CROCETTI CAROLINE HARRISON • FRANK HUANG JIKKI SNEAKERS • JOSTIN WEATHERHOLTZ IMAGE BY ALEX CROCETTI ON VIEW 10/30 - 11/4 AT SELVA 1329 WILLOUGHBY AVE, BROOKLYN, NY

Hi hello I curated an art show opening Thursday at Selva in Bushwick! I’m super excited about not only the visual artists included BUT ALSO the DJ lineup, including one Mr. @zacharylipez.bsky.social, whose newsletter, Abundant Living, has alerted me to some very fucking good music!

I’m stuck on page 5 (it’s pretty good but I already can tell it’s gonna have an unhappy ending so I’m like fuck that, life is hard enough)