14 Haikus About New York City Hardcore
I wrote fourteen haikus about NYHC.
1. Supertouch
More than just tracksuits
The heart’s a tricky engine
Light is
New Music For You To Buy (and an apology/newsletter update)
Hey Abundant Lifer,
So, I was trying to get the newsletter back (?) onto the somewhat regular
schedule that we all
Viva Dead Ponies: In Memory of Cathal Coughlan, 1960/61-2022
I was shocked to read that Cathal Coughlan died
[https://thequietus.com/articles/31552-cathal-coughlan-has-died-aged-61], but
not because he seemed young,
Bandcamp Friday Fandango
I’d hoped that this week’s newsletter would be a deep dive into hipsters,
hipster Curtis Yarvin stans, and
Keep It Complicated: April Album Reviews
billy woods Aethiopes [https://billywoods.bandcamp.com/album/aethiopes]
(Backwoodz Studioz) If I can help it, I’m never going
Notes on Stadium Crust, Epic Crust, Neocrust, Emokrust, Morrow, and The Wascalliest Wabbit of Them All...Mankind
1.
Fall of Efrafa [https://fallofefrafa.bandcamp.com] was a crust punk band that
thematically utilized a mythos inspired by
Death Is Big And Stupid
The last thing I’ve ever wanted to be is the sort of writer who uses grief as a
shortcut
Abundant Living New Music Recommendations for March
So, how many essays about music this week are starting or ending with a
variation of “in times of horror,
Closing Time: Premrock, Art Vs. Work, Hip Hop Influence, and the Tom Waits-To-Tending-Bar Pipeline
Every once in a while, while I'm tending bar, a customer will ask me, "what do
you really want to
