thread where i share some of the more interesting (not nec. complimentary) music i find over the course of the year Pamputtae is a dancehall veteran who seems to have accepted she's not having hits again and is now doing sidequests like this hard rock/funk workout youtu.be/0JFgURmICjk

As promised, on the last day of March, here is the final list of my 50 favorite songs of 2025. It was a hell of a year, in multiple senses, and I'm not sorry to be done with it. Thanks to any and all who read and listen and commune. Bring on 2026. www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...

as someone whose primary cultural interests would have been looked at by my oldest grandparent as corny and out of date when he was young, i have zero attachment to generational touchstones. mock away, kids, but know that the mockery will come for you one day too

there are 912 videos in my to-watch queue for 2026. see you in 2027, i guess

As promised, on the last day of March, here is the final list of my 50 favorite songs of 2025. It was a hell of a year, in multiple senses, and I'm not sorry to be done with it. Thanks to any and all who read and listen and commune. Bring on 2026. www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...

a lot is a stretch, but circa 2019 i spent a lot of time watching reaction videos to brazilian pop because brazilian pop fans were good at pestering non-brazilians to give their faves a shot, and as a non-brazilian myself it was always interesting to see if they heard it in the same way i did

I don’t think this is real yall 🧐 As far as I can tell they never met and I can’t find a source for the photo other than social media dating back no more than 4 years. I don’t think this is ai but it looks like a photoshop to me.

stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness

kind of unfortunate that doing a month long writing project means that i'm not on here much to contribute to the daily chatter which means that fewer eyes get on the writing project, love a good catch 22

Glen Baxter RIP

This is maybe the best piece I can remember on American Jews and Zionism and if you have literally any interest in the subject I cannot recommend it enough (also some of the most seen I’ve felt in a very long time)

...And thirty. Stay tuned tomorrow for my final list of 50 favorite songs of 2025. www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...

when i make a good post

i really only know DC’s through DC One Million, having ditched supercomics after that, and Crisis is the only one that bears revisiting, although i have fondness for individual tie-ins to nearly all of the ones in between

i have got to find a different peer group on this app, seeing too many gringo takes on latin music

kid is pushing it, we didn't get a vcr until i was 12, but after that it was this:

I'm finishing my list of 300 runners-up with Brazil, because you want to finish strong, and no country on earth has a stronger pop scene than Brazil does. (Well, aside from the US.) Part one: www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...

This is a good overview of one of the unique comics genres incubated in Franco's Spain: narrative adaptations of contemporary pop songs aimed at young women in the 1960s. cubaonrecord.substack.com/p/spanish-po...

Very much feeling the limitations of the format I chose now, but anyway, here is just some of my favorite music made in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in 2025: copper-plums-4ax9.squarespace.com/blog/2026/3/...

For my latest weekly music thoughts -- as mentioned yesterday, this is a much expanded version of my Wednesday thread about what's been lost on multiple fronts when it comes to recent music history, and the continuing further risks run. A lot more examples, a slew of links. Free to read.

Most Cape Verdean musicians are actually in Portugal, so it doesn't make sense to separate them out. But also, Cape Verde very much deserves its own entry: www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

the least interesting but most successful of D.O.S.'s seven books published in the 1920s. the idea that american writers could be famous, and not only famous but distinctive enough to parody, was a heady tonic to u.s. letters in the years of early modernism.

We start the Lusophone leg with the country that got me started on this whole journey ten years ago. The finish line's in sight. www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...

one thing about being primarily invested in Latin, African and Caribbean pop is that the "pop music has slowed down" narrative simply does not compute for me. there is a vast gulf between the sounds that were popular in 2019 and the sounds that are popular in 2026.

i spent a good chunk of today driving for work and i didn't feel like a podcast so i listened to the radio, mainly an "active latin" station, where i noticed that Yailin and Tokischa were important enough to get news bulletins about their activities but not important enough to actually get played

anyway this is the box set that changed my life more than any other. cultural education, philosophical argumentation, historical reconstruction, musical heat: it's got it all

good and important thread. i am of an age and class where i still think of all the musical investigation i do as finding its ultimate expression in a box set, or series of them: a physical repository of knowledge, connection, and context, unerasable by catalogs being sold off or servers going down.

Building a separate thread off my point here -- it has been broadly and accurately noted how the wider shift to so much being online first and foremost in the 21st century therefore means a lot of work is uncaptured in physical form. This is a problem on numerous levels... (1/x)

Finishing up the Francophone tour. Less than a week left of this run through my favorite music of 2025, and I'm really itching to get to 2026 now: www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/25...

#TheTenX5 1. Mahmundi, “Eterno Verão” (2015) It's kind of fitting that my favorite song of the decade is already lost media: the gorgeous video (a big part of why I fell in love) was deleted when her old label folded last year. "Eternal Summer," but what is eternal these days? youtu.be/Fbij3J_6O9A

If I had all the time in the world I might be able to dedicate an entire day to every island in the Caribbean, but I have to pick and choose, so Martinique gets the call up: www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...

If I had all the time in the world I might be able to dedicate an entire day to every island in the Caribbean, but I have to pick and choose, so Martinique gets the call up: www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...

#TheTenX5 2. Orgil ft. NMN, “Ene Udaa” (2016) I quit keeping up with Mongolian pop in the 2020s but I can't quit this song, a distillation of elegant, carefully-composed post-breakup emptiness. The low-impact production, Orgil's hushed R&B, and NMN's muttered rap still ache. youtu.be/llprT4nDQ0Q

ChatGLP, is this anything? say a humorous combination of two technological breakthroughs that are hijacking our neural pathways and producing a more anxious, uncertain, and desperate populace addicted to the assurances they provide? no? never mind

we all need to log off and listen to this album www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ_n...

Went a bit longer than usual on some of these, maybe because I'm thinking more deeply about Haitian music thanks to the upcoming Pop World Cup (cc: @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social) www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...

#TheTenX5 3. Bad Bunny ft. Tainy, “Callaíta” (2019) The song that made me not just a Bad Bunny fan but someone who will defend Bad Bunny to death. Reggaeton as Kinksian character portrait, reggaeton as vessel of memory and emotion and inchoate longing, reggaeton as shoegaze. youtu.be/acEOASYioGY

hi! spread this far and wide on film bsky if you like. i'm in a funk. i need something new to see. i've got a shitton of reliables dgmw but i feel rootless all the same. SO: tell me 10 films you've loved that've lingered with you most from the last 12 months! important: NO OSCAR NOMINEES ALLOWED

my brain is trying really hard to make me ditch the 2025 recap and focus all my energy on tracking down every good comic from the 1980s, and despite having put it off for decades that now includes manga so i am miserably scouring soulseek for every monkey punch story that has ever been scanlated

yeah, just... yeah

Today is the birthday of writer & artist John Stanley (March 22, 1914-Nov. 11, 1993). Most known for his wonderful work on the Marge’s Little Lulu comic book & it’s spin-off Tubby. A personnel favorite of mine.

#TheTenX5 4. IZA ft. Rincon Sapiência, “Ginga” (2018) I spent uncountable hours in 2018 with this video. I don't know that it's her "best" song, whatever that means, but it's the song that converted me irrevocably into a fan of IZA's smart, textured Afro-centric Brazilian pop. youtu.be/NcY80SPnvfE

And so we bid farewell to the African continent once more. We'll be back in the Lusophone leg, but until then enjoy music from Senegal, Madagascar, Burkina Faso and more: www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...

r.i.p. to sam kieth, and to the flickering idea that mainstream comics can ever be more than intellectual property maintenance

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the middle of a full-blown humanitarian crisis, still manages to produce great pop music both within and outside its borders. So does the Republic of the Congo, on a smaller scale. www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2026/3/...

#TheTenX5 5. Javiera Mena, “Luz de Piedra de Luna” (2010) Splitting the Javiera Mena vote but I’ve got to live my truth, which is that this song, with its overwhelming percussion rush, was where I fell in love with the Chilean dance scene, and I’m loyal to first loves. youtu.be/atjmVa8k-vc

The memes sucked, and so did he.

talk about 1977 as a music year on the timeline prompts me to link to this 24 hour mix i made a decade ago www.jonathanbogart.net/mix