The High Party: Getting (and Staying) Down With 9/11 Twenty Years Later
I am not the sort of writer who posts about coffee and cigarettes. While I agree
with Nick Cave when
Friday Funday New Music Recommendations
So, I’m trying to get this newsletter out more regularly, at least as close to
regularly as it was
On Being A Real Nuanced Cat: Rhys Langston Complexes the Veil
Since the turnover of American leadership from the performative, unsuper villain
malice of the Trump administration to the ostensibly well
*extreme Peggy Lee voice* "Is This It"
It’s tempting to try to combine two prospective essays, one on nu metal and one
on The Strokes [https:
Backwards and Forwards in Time with The Gaslight Anthem!
There’s much talk, these days, of a “pop-punk revival.” Being middle-aged, and
not terribly fond of the art made
Faces Of Punk
Despite my dim view of the human soul, I do try to assume the reasonable best of
humans online. This
Almost A God: Noise Rock In The Landscape
“Noise Rock” is a term for a musical subgenre of alternative rock (or “college”
rock), aurally similar to dodecaphony and
New Music Discourse (To Avoid All The Other Discourse)
Abundant Living is a music newsletter. For the most part. I may use an essay to
make tangential points (or
Back to Normal, via Monkey's Paw
The story of the Monkey’s Paw is a “classic ‘three wishes’ story that doubles as
a horror story and
Notes On Anita Lane, Madball in The Park, Kid Congo in The Desert, St. Vincent-gate, and Assorted Punks, Players, + Haters
What is up, rockers? Welcome to another Abundant Living, the third on the
slightly less problematic platform!
Since, as I
