Trying to decide if I have to actually listen to Chappell Roan to assert that a chunk of her initial musical moves were predicted by Passion Pit

Did you fall in love with an album last year that didn’t seem to be on anyone else’s radar? If so, what was it?

This is perfect, no notes

I am and forever will be Team “Colony is track 1 and Plan 9 is track 6 on Gorgeous”

While I’m talking about music, the first Walt Mink album is so good, it pains me that they weren’t bigger

My general coping strategy for the past year has been diving into comfort music. Here are some things that have been keeping me sane.

Sometimes I think this is the most underrated Depeche Mode song

People should study Detroiters, specifically Tommy Pencils

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Thinking of getting into Alexander Belyaev this year

One thing about my Bluesky experience in comparison to Twitter is I do not recall so much relentless horniness seeping into my Twitter feed. This is neither endorsement or excoriation, just an observation.

2025 is the first year in maybe 15 where I stopped tracking what my favorite new albums were and just spent time listening to things I liked. As such, I have no Best of 2025 list and it feels liberating to be free of an obligation entirely of my own making.

The older I get, the more various excerpts from the lyrics to “The Figurehead” by The Cure resonate with me

Starting 2026 in style by rewatching the episodes of Hunter x Hunter until it gets unbearably racist

The 2016 Ghostbusters movie is funny as hell

TFW you realize you were immediately drawn to “Dance Yrself Clean” by LCD Soundsystem because the verse chord progression follows the same pattern as “The Funeral Party” by The Cure

I am looking for a good vegan brownie recipe; anyone have one you recommend?

Coming up on three decades of being low-key obsessed with “Cop Shoot Cop” by Spiritualized

I was idly scrolling Instagram and saw a video titled “Top 5 White Men (According to Black People)” and paused, a little nervous #5 was Tony Hawk I resumed scrolling because I figured the other four would also be correct

Have you ever come across a piece of merchandise where your immediate reaction was “omg that is just silly and I WANT IT”?

Thinking a bit about Perry Bamonte today, mostly because I never knew exactly who was playing what on Cure songs past 1989 aside from Simon, Roger, and Boris/Jason and as such I don’t know which songs really showcase what he brought to the band.

This may have single-handedly redeemed 2025 for me

I had no idea when I wrote this that I’d find out about Perry Bamonte’s passing today. RIP

It is astonishing to me how much I like Songs of a New World, even in the context of being extremely in the tank for The Cure as a band. This why it’s great when bands I’m into put out new music; I get to fall in love with them all over again.

Merry Christmas!

Good news for anyone who wanted to hear this year’s Messiah recital; our soprano recorded the performance on her phone and uploaded it to her YouTube channel:

I don’t begrudge anyone singing any song; I really think performers should follow their bliss and let the chips fall where they may. That said, I’m very confused as to who the audience for Andrea Bocelli singing “Hallelujah” actually is.

It seems like I have to travel on every nomination day for the People’s Pop Poll

How do we convince Nick Fuentes he can box

I’m not sure I’ve ever actually listened to “Party Fears Two” by The Associates before now but I think I now know where Linda Perry got her vocal inspiration from

This is one of the best descriptions of IT by Stephen King that I’ve ever read

Just sitting over here waiting for Real Lies to have a major breakthrough in the US

My favorite thing about this is that I had no context for what it was about and yet the first thought I had was “did someone write something about LCD Soundsystem”

It‘s that time of year again! Soloists from the professional choir at King‘s Chapel Boston will be presenting the Half-Hour Messiah on Dec 16th at 12:15 PM ET. The performance will be live-streamed and archived here: www.youtube.com/live/dz7-OV1...

So, The Show of a Lost World was absolutely fantastic

It‘s that time of year again! Soloists from the professional choir at King‘s Chapel Boston will be presenting the Half-Hour Messiah on Dec 16th at 12:15 PM ET. The performance will be live-streamed and archived here: www.youtube.com/live/dz7-OV1...

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

Nothing quite like scrolling through my iTunes library and thinking “remember when I went all in on Amon Tobin“

Last-week-me was OTM

I rally feel for anyone with a degree from the Institute of Culinary Education these days

Apparently when your significant other texts you a picture of toilet paper origami done by the cleaners, the appropriate response is NOT “Oh nice, a rose for your rosebud”

My main takeaway from the 6 7 phenomenon is that if my high school friends and I had had access to the modern internet, we might have been able to get teens across the nation to start using “FUTON” as a random interjection

Katy Perry has recorded a lot of jams for someone with a wildly fugly voice

Moving on to another widely discussed 2025 album, please enjoy my live tweet session of listening to LUX by Rosalía for the first time

I’m listening to the Geese album for the first time, AMA So far the first song sounds like Algiers did a mashup of a Thom Yorke side project and IDLES

I am one song into Cabin in the Sky and I’m already teary De La Soul is magic

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam have some absolute jams in their catalogue

My primary takeaway from things like this is that I have been way too hard on my own abortive attempts to write anything for my entire life

I got curious about the bskyinsights word cloud for my account

Now it feels like end of year