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
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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.
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Oct
03
21st Century Party People: Whatever The Opposite of Anxiety of Happy Mondays Influence Is
Part One
You may or may not be tired of old people telling you how they found out about
new
24 min read
Sep
12
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
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Sep
03
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
6 min read
Aug
29
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
18 min read
Aug
16
*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:
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Jul
21
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
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Jul
02
Faces Of Punk
Despite my dim view of the human soul, I do try to assume the reasonable best of
humans online. This
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Jun
17
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
31 min read