The Next Big Thing: Notes on Punk, Pop Punk, Garage Punk, the Riverboat Gamblers, What's What, and Something To Crow About at 20
In a perfect world, Riverboat Gamblers would have been bigger than Blink-182. Failing that, they’d have settled for being
Geese, Rhys, Warp, and Retirement
Welcome to the newest Abundant Living! I’ve been too busy working on new demos for Telematics and Publicist UK
Oi! Gevalt!
Notes On the New Boots and (social) Contracts
When George Orwell wrote, “If you want a picture of the future,
Shook Some Action: thoughts on new records by Algiers + Death Valley Girls. (plus February playlist)
Trying my best to get the newsletter out more than once a month. So. Two bands I dig. Two new
Eight Unfinished Essays on Marquee Moon
You said, “Blah, blah, blah.”
-Tom Verlaine (1949-2023)
(Painting of Marquee Moon Album Cover by Nate Turbow)
See No Evil
Hair Metal Micky: Notes on Suede, Hard Rock Band
The term for mishearing lyrics–in general, but with the implication being that the mishearing is something silly like “dirty
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
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
