See also "informed opinion"

New Music (review) | Yaz Lancaster, 'After' (PTP)

NYT describing a progressive who just won an impressive upset election victory: she’s a windbag with no experience NYT describing a disgraced conservative pedo: a wretched young woman ended up in his vicinity and ruined his life

What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday? What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators? Can we make this a thing?

Andrew Khedoori, the good feller behind the excellent Longform Editions, has announced a new project, Residence, featuring year-long overviews of artists as they create new work. The first two acts, covering 2026: #ColePulice and #whait aka @moreeazemusic.bsky.social and @wendyeyes.bsky.social

At what point does the New York Times get charged as organizationally conspiring to abet human trafficking of minors.

next wednesday, 11/12, at @mamatriedbk.bsky.social, i will be DJing all neil young (probably mostly bootlegs) to celebrate his 80th, while my pals wolf on drugs play 2 all-neil sets. and if you bring a thumb drive, i'll pick out & copy some dope neil tapes for you.

if you're keeping count of increasingly useless MSM bylines, add Jon Allsop's

While I 100% concur re baristas, I believe this note also applies to many "service" jobs where workers have to interact with real people on an even level. Everyday life skills >>> c-suite skills

Was Sarah Kendzior suspended here? Anyone know why? Is this place turning out to be just like every other social media platform?

Hooray for independent music writing but what's the point of a 2500 word "Grimes Art Angels Turns 10" reevaluation if you won't talk about her very public relationship and 3 children with a right wing trillionaire whose role in the fascist takeover of the US has resulted in 300k deaths worldwide.

COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.

my Sunday Review of Horses, which turns 50 tomorrow 🙏 pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

New Bklyn Sounds 11/7/2025—11/11/2025 + "Turn the Volume UP!!!!" dadastrain.substack.com/p/bklyn-soun...

New Music (review) | Musclecars & Toribio, 'Full Circle' EP (Rhythm Section) substack.com/@dadastrain/...

One of the great joys of Zohran's victory is that NYC finally has a mayor who doesn't give a shit about what the New York Times thinks of him

It’s ok to be inspired—even, or especially, when shit’s this crazy out there. Let me be clear: I’m not obsessed with optimism, nor do I think it always works out. But we should be wary of those who tell us to rid ourselves of hope. The opposite of hope for the enslaved is enslavement, after all.

John Ganz know WTF is up!

courage is wildly contagious, and it's so powerfully cool that you can peer pressure cowards into acting like they have it

OH FUCK YES WE GOT A WARTIME MAYOR

Turn the Volume UP!!!!

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

"Improbable" since June 24th??? Good luck with that @nytimes.com editorial board!!!

on dick cheney’s legacy The Legacy of Dick Cheney youtu.be/4jHonla5GYY

Vote hard, America.

New Music (review) | Patricia Brennan, 'Of the Near and Far' (Pyroclastic) substack.com/profile/1848...

Rest in Heavenly Peace Donna Jean Godchaux! Psychedelic gospel grrrl, one of American rock and roll's incredible connectors, and key element on my single favorite Grateful Dead song performance of all-time! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOjZ...

‎أحمد [Ahmed] Brooklyn residency Feb 19 - 21 ShapeShifter Lab, NY withfriends.events/event/74C7w0...

Shout-out to this absolute all-time bar by @anatosaurus.bsky.social: "The job of a good message isn't to say what is popular. The job of a good message is to make popular what we need said."

While highly applicable to political science, I think this is a basic Dada Strain tenet, boiling down to "build, write and speak the world you want to see into being" - start with intentions inspired by genuine beliefs, then argue, back and prove your point with actions.

Cruelty is always the point.

New Music (review) | Black Eyes, 'Hostile Deisgn' (Dischord)

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

New Bklyn Sounds 10/30/20225—11/4/2025 dadastrain.substack.com/p/bklyn-soun...

The grotesque.

When reading headlines *outlining* the latest Zohran "controversy," I hoped it wasn't just conservative/MSM/whitey media's lack of familiarity with the term "auntie" - cause no one's that deep in the bubble, right? RIGHT??? #LivingintheDumbestTimeline

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

Yes 'Bitches Brew,' but this is where I became a Jack DeJohnette Stan. My favorite jazz-dance drummer this side of Ed Blackwell. #RIPJackDeJohnette

RIP JACK DEJOHNETTE. One of the best.

New Work I | For Art Forum, I wrote about a new exhibit on the history of social dancing in NYC (at Museum of the City of New York thru March); and how what we regard as a dance-floor's modern mores, potencies and consequences have actually been part of the city's cultural continuum all along.

Bklyn News | The saga of the worst "club" in New York City drolls on. A buyer has been found for the cadaver!

New Bklyn Sounds 10/23/2025—10/28/2025 dadastrain.substack.com/p/bklyn-soun...

"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Brilliant.

The sheer of dullness of these "new" ideas...

Nazi tat affair useful because anyone doing bizarre prevarications atm re how its totally normal to have a Nazi tattoo, good actually, not a big deal that'd matter in an election, if anything its cringe you care, etc etc, has revealed you never need to take their politics opinions seriously again.

The future has been unsexy but obvious the entire time...

Historic D'Angelo Must-Read | Between the many memorial recaps/old stories, been shocked not to see this cited: Jason King's liners to the 2012 'Voodoo' reissue, incredible reporting work that first unearthed/oulined Dilla's true influence via Soulquarian intvws. passthecurve.com/post/4194259...