Zachary Lipez

Zachary Lipez

Nov
04
Bandcamp Friday Suggestions From Your Good Friend at Abundant Living

Bandcamp Friday Suggestions From Your Good Friend at Abundant Living

It’s Bandcamp Friday! The most wonderful day, when the music industry is solved and I can whip out a
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Oct
30
Super Spooky Abundant Living Halloween Mix

Super Spooky Abundant Living Halloween Mix

It’s the spookiest slash ookiest time of the year. The holiday which comes only behind St.Patrick's
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Sep
19
New Sickest Jams: Notes on Shrapknel, Ojo Por Ojo, teen suicide, Al-Quasar, and So Much More

New Sickest Jams: Notes on Shrapknel, Ojo Por Ojo, teen suicide, Al-Quasar, and So Much More

So, the first issue of Creem Magazine is out, and I’m proud as a peacock, baby, while–of course–
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Aug
19
Analogies In Chains

Analogies In Chains

I’ve been an Alice In Chains fan for less than a decade. I’m willing to admit that because
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Jul
13
14 Haikus About New York City Hardcore

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
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Jun
17
New Music For You To Buy (and an apology/newsletter update)

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
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May
24
Viva Dead Ponies: In Memory of Cathal Coughlan, 1960/61-2022

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,
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May
18
Careers of Evil: Watain, the New Right, Hipsters in the Hellscape

Careers of Evil: Watain, the New Right, Hipsters in the Hellscape

1. I am currently, somewhat embarrassedly, fascinated by two recent modes of stylized proselytizing that are, despite some surface differences,
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May
06
Bandcamp Friday Fandango

Bandcamp Friday Fandango

I’d hoped that this week’s newsletter would be a deep dive into hipsters, hipster Curtis Yarvin stans, and
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Apr
18
Keep It Complicated: April Album Reviews

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
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