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
Kitsch The Anus of the Black Cat (plus: reviews of new albums by Shrapknel, Julie Christmas, Richard Thompson, Linda Thompson, and J.R.C.G.)
We’re not living in a golden age of much. But at least the kitsch renaissance—which started too-clever-ly (by
Laugh In The Dark: Aimee Mann & Ted Leo's The Both at 10
For those of us raised on the gospel of “The Velvet Underground & Nico's debut album only sold
Endtime Buddies: Notes on Lungfish and Bonnie Prince Billy, In the Approximate Spirit of One of The Longer Lungfish or Bonnie Prince Billy Songs
Hello all, Today is my birthday and I'm taking full advantage of it by being as wildly self
Crisis On Swiftinite Earths: Notes On Tortured Poets Dept.
As far as subsisting in a simulated reality goes, there are worse matrices to toil under than this one built
Demonstrating Their Paranoid Style: Notes on The Interrogator
The Paranoid Style is the title of a 1964 essay I haven’t read but have read enough tweets about
