I wrote about the irony of the AI bubble, a phenomenon driven by storytelling and imagination in an industry that has contempt for both

A big reason we started NCS was to address coverage equity and make sure fans, old and new, were aware of all the good in the game. It’s why I will always believe the watch guide is one of the most important things we do. Glad to be back on it this season.

you give don’t rock the inbox $2 (diapers for my kid) and every friday you get recs that carry you through the weekend www.dontrocktheinbox.com/put-a-record...

one more bump this week

fascinating breakdown by @txnewsprincess.bsky.social of a city getting offered millions to partner with ICE and turning it down www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...

coming up with little songs to soothe my newborn baby and telling him that he and his mom’s love “is the main difference between me and lorenz hart but otherwise we are equally talented”

not being dramatic when i say this is why independent music journalism is meant to exist www.dontrocktheinbox.com/james-talley...

Dirk’s one of our finest relaxers.

breaking news i’m a dad

for this week’s My Time Back i wrote about Toci Ezi’s excellent debut novel This Kind Of Trouble and how a great writer can thoughtfully manipulate their reader mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/this-kind-...

for this week’s My Time Back i wrote about Toci Ezi’s excellent debut novel This Kind Of Trouble and how a great writer can thoughtfully manipulate their reader mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/this-kind-...

You heard me

monday album

billikens gameday 😈

jordan goodwin lighting up the spurs? 👀

bills/seahawks super bowl let’s make it happen

darnold’s throws are honestly pornographic

james buchanan collinsworth

you’re not gonna wanna hear this: sean mcdermott’s still got it (complimentary)

bills gameday song

if you search don williams on apple music or spotify the most recent album is this clear AI slop supposedly released friday. sounds like shit and has a different voice. real slap in the face to one of the greatest singers ever

saturday album

you think anyone ever played a blink 182 song for guy clark?

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

he truly killed this shit. real arrival stuff

“first posthumous release” really implies “we’re gonna crank so many of these out now that he’s gone”

friday album

Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker said that when activists sent a casket on her lawn, it was a threat on her life. But painted on casket itself was a very important clue to their likely intent, the hashtag #SayHerName I wrote about the history of symbolic caskets used in protest *against* violence.

one last time bumping this week’s My Time Back. just out here trying to write something that gives yall a breather from algorithms and makes you exhale without having to remind yourself to do it

the way this album makes me want to get better at things

Tom is reliably correct on everything but this point, on which he's so wrong it's hard to believe he wasn't hacked. There are only like 5 duds in this list, but ofc using the Hot 100 as a barometer of a year's musical quality is as useful using an actual barometer to check what time it is

you can easily make any seminal year look fishy pulling the reliably overly earnest year end hot 100. we think '91 is cool but year end says paula abdul and bryan adams ran shit. but 89 is the year rhythm nation, 3 feet high & rising, straight outta compton, countless 5 star joints find an audience.

hanging out with my friends talking about the sports podcast power list

they don’t make albums much more cathartic than this shit

perfect album

too many music rants lack…a point

ICYMI: I was interviewed by @natalieweiner.bsky.social at Don't Rock the Inbox about my book Soul-Folk (@3313books.bsky.social). Among the many, many things I hope you take away from it is that you need to listen to the Isley Brothers' Givin' It Back www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-soul-folk...

dope album

This is fantastic. I'm ordering the book today. " "I just want to express myself through my music, and this is how it sounds." "

damn ethan hawke acted his ass off in blue moon

At Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday concert at the Fox Theatre last year, Eric Church got up and said if the country had just reelected Carter in 1980 and didn’t elect Reagan we wouldn’t be here and I think about that a lot. Anyway here’s a song I’ve been listening to a lot these days.

for this week’s My Time Back, i wrote about Todd Snider’s memoir, a book a had a great time reading. i also wrote about finding out Kris Kristofferson died on my one-year wedding anniversary mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/i-never-me...

blue moon or roofman tn

Ms Rachel just called Andrew Cuomo a raggedy old racist bitch

I absolutely loved talking with Natalie! Thank you so much for having me. And if you don't already, be sure to subscribe to Don't Rock The Inbox when you head over there!

great excuse to listen to some todd snider www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vDy...

This is so good. "It’s not just thinking that they’re gone. It’s that you’ve sort of put off trying to wrap your head around everything they contributed and everything they represented and how different everything would be if they never existed."