"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ... "Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

For this, the state decided to execute him.

People are nervous about watching video, but this one is not of the murder, it's of the lead up, and people need to see it before the spin takes over.

wrote about how maybe it makes more sense to be mad at conde nast for insulating pitchfork from market forces for so many years in the name of prestige than it does to be mad at them for instituting a paywall open.substack.com/pub/jaimebro...

who you let in is part of the creative process, too

[x salvage] An odd moment in 1990: apropos of nothing the Sub-Mariner chants an anagram of "Abortion Rights Womens Choice" to calm angry fish-creatures.

wrote about the passing of filk singer leslie fish and the ways in which fan culture has transformed in the years since she first started writing kirk/spock slash fiction in the 70s, including today's announcement of a licensing deal between disney and openAI jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/2025-the-y...

ostensibly this is a gift guide, but it also contains some thoughts about the ongoing spotify boycotts that some artists are engaging in, the notion of switching from spotify to apple music, and the value of participating in music vs. consuming it jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/the-seat-o...

i don’t know. i think maybe people are better in real life

wrote about suno and udio and xania monet and "i run" by haven. and what we can learn from all of it about what kind of impact AI is going to have on music production and the record industry jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/what-will-...

here’s what i think about pitchfork doing a comments section and reader scores open.substack.com/pub/jaimebro...

8000 words about who owns the biggest record label in the world, what that means for music, and why the tiktok boycott of 2024 actually happened open.substack.com/pub/jaimebro...

what on earth do prof jiang's students tell their parents when they get home from those classes

doesn’t even feel like the right framing to me. the taylor swift masters saga began not with a decision of hers but with private equity getting involved in the music business. the real story is about capital’s influence on music, not artists influencing each other

you're either the kind of person who wants to read something like this or you're not. if you are, i think you will find a lot to chew on here

you're either the kind of person who wants to read something like this or you're not. if you are, i think you will find a lot to chew on here

wrote about the 2020s country music boom over at defector, which i think is happening because of the way that tiktok's fyp curation foregrounds regional, bottom-up culture more than the follow-based feeds of the 2010s did

i wrote about how everything is fracking now open.substack.com/pub/jaimebro...

wrote a bunch of stuff about facebook and track II diplomacy and community intranets, tap in or don’t jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...

i want to read this

i wrote a big thing on substack about tariffs and deglobalization jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/notes-on-t...

everything out of this guy's mouth is just "remember when red bull gave bleep bloop knob twiddlers like me money to make art? maybe if we all try really hard to get big corporations to like us, they'll start doing that again"

"dear angel of death" by simone white, 2018

"the british counter-culture, 1966-73: a study of the underground press" by elizabeth nelson

how would you explain jimmy savile to an american? what if larry david was secretly the most prolific rapist in american history? what if the joker had a TV show where he did good deeds for needy people sometimes, and people just got used to him and started to like him?

reading about jimmy savile

they’re not doing enough with the rico suave IP. you could just cast a totally new guy in the role every six or seven years and just keep putting out new versions of the one song with different drums

was scrolling through a piracy website last night and decided to reverse sort the entire library of movies by year so i could browse all the oldest movies on the site. saw this poster and immediately started watching. it was great!

currently wondering if musical subcultures were functionally just the result of radio stations and MTV switching from demographic targeting to psychographic targeting in the 80s. teenagers sorting themselves voluntarily into the categories that advertisers wanted to reach

i went to pitchfork festival a few times. it was always too hot and i don't remember ever seeing any great sets, but i have many wonderful memories of going to susie's drive-thru in irving park afterwards. i guess it closed in 2022. what a drag

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