Mar
22
Death Is Big And Stupid
The last thing I’ve ever wanted to be is the sort of writer who uses grief as a
shortcut
8 min read
Zachary Lipez
Mar
04
Abundant Living New Music Recommendations for March
So, how many essays about music this week are starting or ending with a
variation of “in times of horror,
13 min read
Feb
18
Closing Time: Premrock, Art Vs. Work, Hip Hop Influence, and the Tom Waits-To-Tending-Bar Pipeline
Every once in a while, while I'm tending bar, a customer will ask me, "what do
you
15 min read
Feb
02
Ranking The Sprechgesanganistas
Recently, The Quietus reviewed
[https://thequietus.com/articles/31041-yard-act-the-overload-review] a band
called Yard Act who are apparently popular in the
5 min read
Jan
12
Nobody Can Touch Him: Mark Eitzel, Poetry vs. Rock Music, Fame, Failure, and The Other Star of Maverick
Part 1
The other day, Zohra and I got into a small but significant disagreement about
the old television show,
16 min read
Dec
21
Yr On The List (plus 50)
It’s been a decidedly terrible year in more ways than I can count, and I can
honestly say that
18 min read
Nov
25
The Revolution Will Not Be Shoegazed (Or Maybe It Will)
A heated online brawl can be nice, especially when not all of the participants
are outright scumbags. Like one of
15 min read
Nov
14
Notes On Satanic Energy In Music
Pity the poor, pasty black metal musician, spending his every waking hour
texting “u up?” to Lucifer Morning Star, only
15 min read
Nov
03
Upper Wilds, Classic Rock Band
When I claim that the band Upper Wilds
[https://upperwilds.bandcamp.com/album/venus]plays Americana, I know I’m
9 min read
Oct
15
Cool For Cats: New Record Recommendations For Now Enough People (like you)
Welcome to a new Abundant Living, the newsletter that is trying its damndest to
get back on a semi-regular schedule.
13 min read