Eric R. Danton

I read half of the USA trilogy before I sort of petered out.

That sounds like a dare

Long, weird story here, but does anyone know how to trace fake FB profiles back to the person who created them? In this case, it wouldn't be a sophisticated operation. @craigsilverman.bsky.social?

Must have been an oversight: Northampton's weekly newsletter made no mention of the DPW's disastrous response to the snow Tuesday, or the mayor's plans for making sure it doesn't happen again.

Today in Outro adjacent news: our drummer, the Lucky Noam Schatz, changes his band's name to The Unlucky Shots, and still makes ridiculously good songs. We are in negotiations with the Indonesian band Outro to share global profits from our respective empires.

Freak Scene #95: Joshua David Thayer Finds His Voice Plus, Northampton band the Lucky Shots have changed their name after their luck took a turn

This week in Freak Scene, Hadley native Joshua David Thayer tells us about his new album, "So Little, Close to Nothing," and the Lucky Shots have become Unlucky through a turn of events:
buttondown.com/freakscene/a...

What a timesaver! (Where is this, so I can avoid at all costs if I manage to make it down next year)

Coming back to Northampton in March for the Back Porch Festival!

Did the lineup change? I thought I saw a version with Bugslam ...

No Album Left Behind: Brian Dunne goes looking for the good life on 'Clams Casino' Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Got to write about Brian Dunne's excellent album "Clams Casino" for Paste's year-end No Album Left Behind series. It's one of my favorites of 2025:

www.pastemagazine.com/music/brian-...

No Album Left Behind: Brian Dunne goes looking for the good life on 'Clams Casino' Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Got to write about Brian Dunne's excellent album "Clams Casino" for Paste's year-end No Album Left Behind series. It's one of my favorites of 2025:

www.pastemagazine.com/music/brian-...

Once again the NYT failed to credit @marisakabas.bsky.social for the scoop

Sorry to be missing it this year!

Here’s a Spotify Wrapped for ya:

If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.

Buy your favorite band’s records.

School is closed again today -- when the sun is out -- at the DPW's recommendation because of "icy conditions." Which kind of makes you wonder what the hell the DPW was doing overnight after the snow stopped around 9 p.m. I demand a blue-ribbon committee to investigate

School is closed again today -- when the sun is out -- at the DPW's recommendation because of "icy conditions." Which kind of makes you wonder what the hell the DPW was doing overnight after the snow stopped around 9 p.m. I demand a blue-ribbon committee to investigate

Flavored protein water is ... quite a concept?

US Soccer has sent me a solicitation for Giving Tuesday, which sounds like more hassle, with less result, than just putting my credit cards in the garbage disposal

Hampshire County is often the focal point of culture in Western Mass. But Hampden County is getting in the game. - The Boston Globe Hope Center for the Arts in Springfield and De La Luz in Holyoke are booking national touring acts that don’t often appear in Northampton as part of an effort to educate youth in those communities.

Wrote for the Boston Globe about how music venues in Springfield and Holyoke are hoping to breach the tofu curtain between Hampshire County and Hampden County. There's some cool stuff happening!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/a...

UMass! A week from today!

The fascist one!

Sorry to hear this. Saw the penultimate performance of "Leopoldstadt" on Broadway and it was deeply, powerfully moving

The Prewn show is tonight at the Drake!

Haha but what do people in the Berkshires think?

Also, predictably, people in the comments are enraged because a story about "Western Mass" doesn't focus on the Berkshires, which all right-thinking people know is not the same as Western Mass. despite being at the western end of Mass.

Hampshire County is often the focal point of culture in Western Mass. But Hampden County is getting in the game. - The Boston Globe Hope Center for the Arts in Springfield and De La Luz in Holyoke are booking national touring acts that don’t often appear in Northampton as part of an effort to educate youth in those communities.

Wrote for the Boston Globe about how music venues in Springfield and Holyoke are hoping to breach the tofu curtain between Hampshire County and Hampden County. There's some cool stuff happening!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/a...

Freak Scene #94: Prewn Mines Heavy Emotions on 'System' Plus, Juliana Hatfield has moved to Western Mass., where she recorded her new album

New Freak Scene: Izzy Hagerup returns home to Western Mass this weekend for an album release show as Prewn at the Drake in Amherst. Here's my take on the album, "System." Also, Juliana Hatfield is one of us now:
buttondown.com/freakscene/a...

midori jaeger connects with nature, and herself, on “dark green” London artist midori jaeger exercises cello and bass synth in the pursuit of comfort and connection on her earthy new single, “dark green”.

Oh, hey, wrote a thing about Midori Jaeger for Line of Best Fit before I learned that writing for them is a labor of love. But "Dark Green" is a cool track, with an interesting story:
www.thelineofbestfit.com/tracks/midor...

The dad. The kid was turning 4, so he probably already knew

"Things We Lost in the [Dumpster] Fire [of Modern Culture]"