Punk & Metal & Country & Western Civilization Roundup
Records!
This week, I will be fifty years old. Or, as I like to think of it, “eleven years till
*extreme Crypt Keeper voice* “billy woods”
“Now watch me make a movie like Albert Hitchcock.”
— Pitbull
*extreme Crypt Keeper voice* “billy woods”
Pitchfork had billy woods
No True Punk
An Essay on Blowing Bubbles
This is not a punk
Punk is a genre of music, a fashion, and a
Anniversary Poem for Zohra
Dear Abundant Livers, As regular readers know, I post an anniversary poem for Zohra every year. Usually in December, occasionally
I Guess Time Makes End Of The Year Lists of Us All: 50(ish) Albums from 2024
“Bottoms up to another year,” Amanda MacKaye famously sang, on “Birthday” (the first track side B of the Desiderata 7”
Punk Gets Good Again, Again. Plus reviews of newish albums by Elucid + Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
Who knew that punk would be good again so soon? I mean, besides everybody who was screaming at the top
Our Shiksa Beastie Boys? A gothic cowpunk masterpiece turns 10 and nobody but me gives a sh*t
Iceage recorded their debut album, New Brigade, in three days, when the members of the Danish band were hovering around
I Love a Mans in a Uniform: Reviews of new albums by Uniform, Weak Signal, Liberty & Justice, Tenue, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Faucheuse, and more!
Actually, not "and more." But, trust me, what's here is plenty.
Welcome to a new Abundant
A Brief, 100% Accurate, History of the 21st Century, Starring Panthers
Newsletter Business/warning: This edition of Abundant Living is about Panthers, indie sleaze, NYC in the aughts, nostalgia, and how
