Zachary Lipez

Zachary Lipez

Jun
29
Laugh In The Dark: Aimee Mann & Ted Leo's The Both at 10

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
24 min read
Jun
09
Endtime Buddies: Notes on Lungfish and Bonnie Prince Billy, In the Approximate Spirit of One of The Longer Lungfish or Bonnie Prince Billy Songs

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
17 min read
May
15
Crisis On Swiftinite Earths: Notes On Tortured Poets Dept.

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
16 min read
Apr
20
Demonstrating Their Paranoid Style: Notes on The Interrogator

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
9 min read
Feb
22
The Goop Hits The Grinch: Music Journalism May Have to Write Its Own Obituary For Free

The Goop Hits The Grinch: Music Journalism May Have to Write Its Own Obituary For Free

At the end of January, overnight, with only eight years of buildup, Pitchfork went from being “The Most Trusted Voice
22 min read
Dec
20
Risk Is Art: 50 Good Albums from 2023

Risk Is Art: 50 Good Albums from 2023

So, I couldn’t make it through the boygenius album, but thought they were absolutely fab on SNL. I love
25 min read
Nov
29
The Next Big Thing: Notes on Punk, Pop Punk, Garage Punk, the Riverboat Gamblers, What's What, and Something To Crow About at 20

The Next Big Thing: Notes on Punk, Pop Punk, Garage Punk, the Riverboat Gamblers, What's What, and Something To Crow About at 20

In a perfect world, Riverboat Gamblers would have been bigger than Blink-182. Failing that, they’d have settled for being
18 min read
Oct
13

If This is Heaven I'm Bailing Out (reviews of new Birthday Party doc + Armand Hammer album)

On June 9th, hours before my own birthday party was getting started, the other Birthday Party, with a comparable amount
13 min read
Aug
22
Geese, Rhys, Warp, and Retirement

Geese, Rhys, Warp, and Retirement

Welcome to the newest Abundant Living! I’ve been too busy working on new demos for Telematics and Publicist UK
7 min read
Jul
30
Never Get Old

Never Get Old

WARNING: This is one of those “making an artist about oneself” essays that you may hate. And you’re not
9 min read