"Silent Shout still sounds like a future that we haven't been smart enough to avoid."

Wrote about the 20th anniversary of the Knife's Silent Shout, a truly great album that has not aged one second.

One for the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

One for Robert Duvall.

Number Ones on Justin Bieber, Givēon, & Daniel Caesar's "Peaches," a piece of low-stakes vibey-catchy R&B-pop that has always annoyed the shit out of me.

This is exactly what you'd do if you wanted to make sure that wrestling fans chanted "Fuck ICE" throughout the hours of live wrestling you air in prime time every week.

This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost

One for James Van Der Beek.

ecstatic whoa-dude arglebargle stereogum.com/2488117/the-...

Says a hell of a lot about where America is right now that it will be seen as a massive, massive upset if the El Paso airspace closing isn't related to some sort of crime against humanity.

Maybe the greatest alt-rock one-hit wonder of all time, in terms of how awesome the one hit was and how immediately obvious it was that they would never have another.

Wrote about Benito Bowl

Love this book. Page-turner essays on 20 American #1s that changed the musical landscape, from The Twist to Trap. Amazing work @tombreihan.bsky.social

You obviously want to spend the Monday morning after the Super Bowl reading my Alternative Number Ones on Primitive Radio Gods' "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand"

duck season should've never ended

The new Ratboys joint is easily my favorite album of the year thus far, and I had a great time talking to Julia Steiner about every song on the record.

water-gazers in John Woo movies

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Chris is one of the best in the game, and before that he was in one of the best DC bands. Bezos is a chump for (among many other things) laying off the guy from Q And Not U, and someone needs to hire this guy tout suite. For the rest of us, Chris has a new newsletter. Subscribe to that shit.

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

I wrote about every single Grammy night performance because that's the type of shit that I do.

Golden glorious Tom Breihan prose

Number Ones on Cardi B's "Up," a song that I love, and on a questionable parenting decision that I just keep making, over and over.

One for DJ Michael "5000" Watts

One for Catherine O'Hara.

At the end of the day doesn’t matter if we like/admire folks they decide to test out full blown authoritarian violations of the constitution on. It matters that we fight for everyone to be protected by the constitution. Solidarity is not the same as fandom or friendship, solidarity is what wins.

You can't reform this. It must be abolished.

if you’re going pass a “follow the already existing law” law, there’s no reason you can’t at a bare minimum make them follow the law before you give them the votes. Every bit of evidence in the dozen shootings turned over, every facility visited unannounced, weeks of no masks in the streets.

The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter. He's got to go.

Alternative Number Ones on longtime underground freaks the Butthole Surfers and on "Pepper," their one fluke-ass novelty hit.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Wrote about the generational hype vortex of the first Arctic Monkeys album, which is now the same age that Alex Turner was when it came out.

Harry Styles made a good song for the first time ever (not counting One Direction).

Wrote about the 20th anniversary of Cat Power's The Greatest, a lovely album that may have accidentally invented Lana Del Rey.

You gotta read @ericdharvey.com on Legend

Number Ones on "What's Next" and on the extended moment when Drake was happy to just keep cruising without ever really even trying anything.

Between Bone Temple and Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, it’s a big weekend for big motherfuckers.

Wrote about A$AP Rocky's new album, which is not the high art that he seems to think it is but which is pretty fun regardless.

Monthly hardcore column is back, baby!

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

One for John Forté

Wrote about Sassy 009's album Dreamer+, which is exactly the kind of icy-woozy-clubby Scandinavian micro-pop that I want to hear right about now stereogum.com/2484456/albu...

Alternative Number Ones on "Counting Blue Cars" and all my (uniformly negative) thoughts on Dishwalla stereogum.com/2484207/the-...

An incredibly evocative piece of writing from @jeremygordon.bsky.social about a terrible, ecstatic moment

it would rock if more and more prominent Dems were making a big public show of disgust and outrage about the administration's continual choice to smear a murdered young mom as a terrorist and would-be killer who deserved to get shot in the face

Wrote about the new Zach Bryan album, which is once again long and messy and inconsistent and still kind of a nice hang.

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.