whoops wrote about football on the music blog again www.soundsgreat.blog/p/the-music-...

Really glad I went to college during a pandemic and am job searching during a looming recession. Couldn’t have timed it better. This has all been great for my mental health. Great!

Every bar should play Mag Bay, TV on The Radio & Kid Cudi - signed, guy at a bar playing Mag Bay, TV on The Radio & Kid Cudi

Sometimes you close your eyes and see the place where you used to live when you were young (greatest song ever posting at 1am who cares)

reading and listening to some damn good folk music in front of the mississippi river never kys

walking home on a 61 degree day listening to 1979 never kys

Wrote about Flow, Slaughterhouse-Five, Pynch’s new song and struggling to find connections the last few months. New sounds great dot blog: www.soundsgreat.blog/p/everything...

Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy a fancy latte that I will drink while reading & listening to music and that counts

I finally got a job and that means I can buy vinyl again

triple em-dash? fascist or shitty writer, jeff, pick a struggle

got a compliment on my valleyheart t-shirt ama

I wrote about a few of my favorite albums of 2025 so far in Sounds Great. Check out my write-ups on Rapt, Sleeper’s Bell, ZORA, Postcards, Pigeon Pit, Biig Piig & more: www.soundsgreat.blog/p/how-are-yo...

"pure poetry... It grips you tenfold with each lyric and hum" THANK YOU to @hanevold.bsky.social for the kind words on Rapt's 'Until the Light Takes Us' for Sounds Great! www.soundsgreat.blog/p/how-are-yo...

Holy hell. This is a kamikaze biography. This is one of those musician profiles that’s so thorough that it makes it damn near impossible for any music journalist to profile that artist again. What a read.

we need a new place on the computer

bit off more than I can chew on this week's sounds great. so it's coming over the weekend instead of today. sorry to my 126 loyal readers. subscribe now so you don't miss it! writing about 12 albums from this year that you'll want to hear! soundsgreat.blog

good app over there

Almost certainly the best song of 2025 so far open.spotify.com/track/7jAtKb...

confirmed: great denver emo album

For this week's Sounds Great, I talked to Winona Fighter about their killer debut album, My Apologies To The Chef. Happy Valentine's Day, but this one doesn't have any love songs. The story: www.soundsgreat.blog/p/winona-fig...

The last few weeks have felt super hollow and aimless but i think the issue is just that I haven’t been listening to enough Girl Talk

2026 Super Bowl halftime prediction: Post Malone - casts about as wide of a genre net as you can - insane list of collaborators - big football guy

there is a mashup of waiting room by phoebe bridgers and fix you by coldplay on spotify with more than 150 million streams and it's somehow not been pulled down for copyright? this has to be a tiktok thing, too, right? open.spotify.com/track/5DFGoo...

not being on tiktok is so crazy as a music fan. what do you mean the 166th most listened-to artist in the world is a lo-fi folk singer with 13 total songs? and i love all of them?

final kendrick halftime setlist prediction: 1. LOVE. (intro) 2. squabble up 3. luther (w/ SZA) 4. Kill Bill (SZA) 5. Money Trees 6. Not Like Us 7. HUMBLE. 8. [insert medley that brings out Doechii and/or Lil Wayne] 9. family ties (w/ Baby Keem) 10. tv off 11. i 12. All The Stars (w/ SZA)

tired: they're scared of trump wired: they're sending a great message to kendrick lamar about his halftime setlist

I'm actually thoroughly enjoying this Weeknd record. His concepts never really land for me but the songs always sound so crisp. It's definitely bloated, but the production palette here is awesome. Every song is super expansive. The features fit well. Count me as a fan.

really really digging this new MIKE album open.spotify.com/album/3M1PhS...

Gregory Alan Isakov, tbh

The whole music industry yelling A Minorrrrrrrrrrr that’s CRAZY

Goes without saying but Doechii is the Real Deal and I’m glad millions of people are getting to see it.

Chappell is so fucking real. Pop music is in good hands.

This app is great but it is just not built yet for nights like tonight as a sports fan.

Going to miss this band a whole lot. Glad I got to catch them on this last run.

There’s something special in the North Carolina soil

Excited to share the first Sounds Great artist feature. Meet Cut The Kids in Half, a Boston indie band led by two teenage brothers who have been writing their debut since they were 13. It's out now. RIYL: The Strokes, Gang of Youths, Motel Breakfast Their story: open.substack.com/pub/soundsgr...

undeniably impressive but still not for me I’m sorry

Breaking: I am not a huge fan of black midi or The New Sound, but I am Greeping at First Ave tonight. Will report back later.

I am finally trying the NE Minneapolis Arts District coffee shop made famous by Adeem The Artist's song "For Judas." They're playing Adrianne Lenker. Scones are half-off. Life is good.

It’s a pop-punk Saturday Night.

DJ Unk, known for his hit track “Walk It Out,” has died, according to a post from his wife.

Thinking about the greatest pop song of the decade so far open.spotify.com/album/6exrhk...

Hey Bluesky-ers. Plugging my new music blog called Sounds Great, which launched today on Substack (apparently still a swear word on the bird app). Subscribe for free and read the first column, about my 50 favorite albums of 2024: www.soundsgreat.blog

The sky is not very blue on my first day on BlueSky. Good omen? Bad omen? Who cares, I’m listening to Young Mister and about to lead the Vikings to a Super Bowl in Madden.