Oct
30
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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Zachary Lipez
Sep
19
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–
8 min read
Aug
19
Analogies In Chains
I’ve been an Alice In Chains fan for less than a decade. I’m willing to admit that because
16 min read
Jul
13
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
1 min read
Jun
17
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
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
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
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
billy woods Aethiopes [https://billywoods.bandcamp.com/album/aethiopes]
(Backwoodz Studioz) If I can help it, I’m never going
20 min read
Apr
08
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
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