Zachary Lipez

All Hell, by Daughn Gibson 10 track album

DAUGHN GIBSON’S ALL HELL IS ON BANDCAMP AND ALL STREAMING SERVICES!!!! 🥳🇺🇸🥳

daughngibson.bandcamp.com/album/all-hell

Thirteen years ago, my main band during the aughts played its last show. A few months later I wrote an essay about what it’s like being in an unpopular band (article did better numbers than any of our albums). Also I see that our MySpace page is still up. www.talkhouse.com/zachary-lipe...

Blame The Clown, by Twisted Teens 12 track album

Have you all gotten the new Twisted Teens album yet? jazzlife.bandcamp.com/album/blame-...

How an Afghan Commando Brought America’s Shadow War to Washington An interview with a former official lays bare the parallel state the US built and then abandoned, which helped to forge the shooter’s path

“The perpetrator was a product of the parallel order that rewarded loyalty, blurred legality and collapsed the line between Afghan and American command. When that world imploded in 2021, Lakanwal carried its ruins with him to the United States.” | @tamhussein.bsky.social
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Message To Garcia, by Visqueen 11 track album

*still* working on my 250 Rock & Folk albums of 2000-2025 list and its slightly driving me mad (I didn’t intend it to be 50 pages and I keep going back on whether “stadium crust” needs a hyphen). On the plus side, it’s resulted in my remembering Visqueen. visqueenvaxxine.bandcamp.com/album/messag...

150 Best Albums of 2007 In October 2007 Sasha Frere-Jones published a 3500-word essay titled “A Paler Shade of White” in The New Yorker, lamenting how indie rock had forfeited the rhythmic and vocal inspiration from Black mu...

2800 words on modern rock devoid of Black influence, global citizens swapping notes and beats, proto-fascists playing hard rock, "Don't Stop Believin'" presaging "Running Up That Hill," what makes a good or bad hip-hop or r&b year, superstars fleeing major labels, & my 150 favorite albums of 2007.

I have probably looked at the touch and go catalog a zillion trillion times and this is the first time I’ve noticed an album called “August” by a band called “the standard.” I really think I may have fallen into the lowest stakes of all the wormholes.

Wire Post To Wire, by The Standard 9 track album

Were The Standard well-ish known in the Aughts and I just missed them entirely? Cos if I’d heard this in 2004, I would have flipped. thestandard.bandcamp.com/album/wire-p...

Newest Soho Radio show is up on Mixcloud! All the biggest post-punk hits of now and yesteryears! Feat. Adult, Elucid, Radio 4, Twisted Teens, teen suicide, Azar Swan, Landowner, Maryam Saleh, Prostitute, Geese, Juana Molina, Subsonics, Dalek, and more!!! www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ab...

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Serving as this newspaper’s pop music critic for the past 16-plus years has been my privilege, my joy

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A new Moonscape album came out last year and nobody told me. I had to find out from MRR Best of 2025. Do you have any idea how humiliating that was for me. moonscapejhc.bandcamp.com/album/-

I’m honestly too sad about Catherine O’Hara to go through clips and find one to post so, since I’m a music writer anyway, here’s her sister’s perfect album from 1988 in case you don’t know about it. marymargaretohara.bandcamp.com/album/miss-a...

A Japanese d-beat band I’m reviewing mentioned MacArthur and I wanted to make a joke about him being “discharge”-d for a second time so I did an hour of research on the general’s history with Japan/Truman before realizing the lyric was about a manga character (and also name was spelled differently)

Bongino heard “City of Refuge” and thought it was about sanctuary cities.

Nick Cave and the Deep States

Reviewed the Sex Pistols album for CREEM (full review in current issue)

Budgie pays tribute to Kenny Morris Budgie pays tribute to Kenny Morris

Budgie pays tribute to Kenny Morris in special piece for LTW louderthanwar.com/budgie-pays-... via @louderthanwar

As some here know, every year, on the week of her birthday and our anniversary, I write a poem for Zohra. (Been doing this for for 15 years and still can’t format worth a damn)

Found out today that I played a benefit show with Das Racist and Japanther in 2010. (a lot of this time period is blurry. Just looked up photos from it on Nicky Digital, and I look like *hell*.)

First soho radio show of 2026 is up on MixCloud. Zohra and I play the hottest tracks of the 20th/21st Century! Smash hits by Suede, Nothing People, Namir Blade, Postcards, Fishbone, Azar Swan, Chrome, Tomorrow Kings, Clint Ruin & Lydia Lunch, Henry’s Dress + more! www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ab...

Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation. Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.

www.propublica.org/article/prop...

No, it will not be ranked. Yes, it will have 5-10 more stadium crust albums on it than one might think.

Abundant Living Don't drag your orchestra into this thing

Posting for accountability: newsletter of top 250 rock/rock-adjacent albums of last 25 years will be out by Jan 1st. zacharylipez.ghost.io

lol I’m listening to the audiobook of his Manson book too

If you thought I believed some batshit stuff in 2024… fasten yr seatbelts!

Reclamation, by Ancient Lights 13 track album

Alex CF from Fall of Efrafa/Morrow/1,000,000 other crustalicious bands has a new peace punk band and it’s fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun (till the pigs come around)! ancientlightspunx.bandcamp.com/album/reclam...

I've heard maybe 5 of these tracks before, and none of them were among my favs on this show.

Exactly what I want from radio tbh.

Most recent @sohoradio show is now on Mixcloud if you’re on the market for two hours of the biggest smash hits of post-punk, occasionally interrupted by the wheezy and off-putting mutterings of an aging dilettante! Discover the stars of today… today! www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ab...