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A journal of arts and culture. Posts by editor-in-chief Ethan Warren
New today on the site: a poem by
@cmcrockford.bsky.social
on Mishima, Pippin, and life itself
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Translation (C.M. Crockford)
Shirou Aoyama (Wikimedia Commons) The ghost of Yukio Mishima sits atThe back of the Imperial, 1972,Two years after his ritual seppuku and failed coup,To take in Pippin’s opening night on Broadway.T…
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/08/15/translation-c-m-crockford/
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New today on the site: Isobel Cunningham asks, just who was Eve, anyway?
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Just Who Was Eve, Anyway? (Isobel Cunningham)
Peter Trimming (Wikimedia Commons) I have been a volunteer guide at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the oldest and most prestigious museum in the city, for almost 15 years. I’ve been surprised by…
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/08/12/just-who-was-eve-anyway-isobel-cunningham/
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On the podcast feed: another E Street Shuffle—in fact the first of TWO Born to Run episodes! Join Greg McGrath and
@ethanwarrenauthor.com
to discuss…the greatest album of all time? We’re just asking questions. Get it where you pod! (🎨:
@vanessamckee.bsky.social
!)
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about 2 months ago
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If you’re waiting on a response to a pitch—just know we (Ethan) put that call out casually while on vacation, not really expecting this volume of amazing work to come in! We’ll get back to you next week.
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Today on the site: the first edition of the Broad Soundtrack, a new monthly rundown of great new songs, with writeups and accompanying playlist!
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The Broad Soundtrack (August 2025)
“Got a New Car” (Tyler Ballgame) — Tyler Ballgame is an explosively rising star in the indie world; having recently signed with Rough Trade, he’s spending this year performing on the same bill as a…
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/08/05/the-broad-soundtrack-august-2025/
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Today on the site: the first edition of the Broad Soundtrack, a new monthly rundown of great new songs, with writeups and accompanying playlist!
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The Broad Soundtrack (August 2025)
“Got a New Car” (Tyler Ballgame) — Tyler Ballgame is an explosively rising star in the indie world; having recently signed with Rough Trade, he’s spending this year performing on the same bill as a…
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/08/05/the-broad-soundtrack-august-2025/
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Today sees the release of the first of two books celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run. Read
@ethanwarrenauthor.com
's review of both:
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Runaway American Dreams (Ethan Warren)
Art by Lydia Silver Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run Peter Ames Carlin Doubleday, August 5, 2025 Bruce Springsteen and Born to Run: 50 Years Sean Egan Quarto, September 23, 2025 The…
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/08/02/runaway-american-dreams-ethan-warren/
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Sloth or entropy
about 2 months ago
If you’re diving into Vineland in the run-up to the PTA maybe-probably-sort-of-sure-why-not adaptation, why not read along with some smart cats (one of whom literally wrote a if not the book on PTA himself)? It’s fun!
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Dear freelance writers: Broad Sound (a journal of arts and culture) is looking for new pitches to run at
broadsoundmag.com
beginning in November (queue’s full through then!) Pay is $100 per piece. Write us the essay of your dreams. Details:
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BROAD SOUND: An Evergreen Call for Pitches
BROAD SOUND An Evergreen Call for Pitches As a freelancer, I wonder if you’ve had this thought: “I’d love to write about that, but there’s just no home for it.” It’s a pain I know too well. A topic...
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Hey
#indiemusicians
and
#indiebands
with
#newmusic
on
#musiciansky
! Broad Sound is launching a monthly spotlight on new songs featuring capsule write-ups and accompanying playlists of under-heard tracks we love. We hope you consider submitting a song!
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The Broad Soundtrack - Submission
Use this form to submit singles for consideration for Broad Sound's monthly digest of capsule reviews and Spotify playlists. It costs nothing to submit, and coverage is free. Because this is a labo...
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The cure for male loneliness is to create your own journal of arts and culture but nobody talks about this
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New today on the site:
@ethanwarrenauthor.com
reviews two new books celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run
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Runaway American Dreams (Ethan Warren)
Art by Lydia Silver Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run Peter Ames Carlin Doubleday, August 5, 2025 Bruce Springsteen and Born to Run: 50 Years Sean Egan Quarto, September 23, 2025 The…
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/08/02/r..
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New today on the podcast feed:
@justinh94.bsky.social
and
@ethanwarrenauthor.com
talk through chapters 4 and 5 of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland! Search Broad Sound Podcast wherever you pod!
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Coming soon: we made you a mix tape
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Micah Rickard
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My latest piece: On the particular dissonance of finding your hometown show up in a Don DeLillo novel
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New today on the site:
@micahrickard.bsky.social
makes his Broad Sound debut with a look at Don DeLillo’s Libra and the literary life of hometowns:
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An Aberration in the Heartland of the Real (Micah Rickard)
Photo by Clint Miller (Wikimedia Commons) A man stares at a county courthouse. It is a warm spring day—April 17th, 1963. Perhaps it is the warmth of the sun, or the mythic purpose he carries with h…
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/08/01/an-aberration-in-the-heartland-of-the-real-micah-rickard/
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New today on the podcast feed: on the E Street Shuffle,
@ethanwarrenauthor.com
is joined by Morris Shamah to discuss The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. Search Broad Sound Podcast wherever you pod!
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Mr. Emotion
about 2 months ago
It is a privilege in so many ways to be part of the Broad Sound family. I’m proud of this one
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New today on the site: another excerpt from our The Sunset Tree at 20 issue, it's
@mr-e-motion.bsky.social
on "Dinu Lipatti's Bones" and John Darnielle's falestto
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John Darnielle’s Falsetto (Danny Cohen)
John Darnielle sings most of “Dinu Lipatti’s Bones” in falsetto. “Falsetto” is one of those terms like “hip-hop” or “polyamory”; ask ten people to define it and you’ll hear ten definitions, all sta…
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/29/john-darnielles-falsetto-danny-cohen/
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New today on the site: Sonia Sarkar says Singapore’s Hell’s Museum Is a Gruesome Reminder to “Do No Wrong”
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Singapore’s Hell’s Museum Is a Gruesome Reminder to “Do No Wrong” (Sonia Sarkar)
photograph courtesy of Hell’s Museum After losing someone very precious at the tender age of eight, a deep, subconscious fear of losing loved ones became ingrained in my mind. While I still s…
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/25/singapores-hells-museum-is-a-gruesome-reminder-to-do-no-wrong-sonia-sarkar/
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New today: on the podcast feed: the premiere of the E Street Shuffle, a Springsteen listen-through podcast, with Frank Falisi and
@ethanwarren.bsky.social
discussing Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ. Search Broad Sound podcast wherever you pod! Art by
@vanessamckee.bsky.social
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New today on the podcast feed: another Eye of the Beholder with
@eyeoftheduckpod.com
co-host
@adamvole.com
discussing the perfection of the Unicorns’ Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? Available wherever you pod!
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Justin Hairston
2 months ago
After a short delay, we’re back—with friends!
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Sarah Welch-Larson
2 months ago
Fiction debut is now online over at
@broadsoundmag.com
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Stay Sweet (Sarah Welch-Larson)
The reception’s gotten fuzzy I’m dreaming about you the way I have all summer, the way a thirsty man dreams about water, the way a drowning man dreams about solid ground. I didn’t know what a firm …
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/19/stay-sweet-sarah-welch-larson/
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New today on the site:
@dodgyboffin.com
's short story "Stay Sweet," inspired by the
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
song "Dilaudid," another selection from our The Sunset Tree at 20 issue
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Stay Sweet (Sarah Welch-Larson)
The reception’s gotten fuzzy I’m dreaming about you the way I have all summer, the way a thirsty man dreams about water, the way a drowning man dreams about solid ground. I didn’t know what a firm …
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/19/stay-sweet-sarah-welch-larson/
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Sarah Welch-Larson
2 months ago
My pals over at Broad Sound are doing a Vineland read-along podcast this summer. I dropped in to talk about Chapter 3!
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The sky is dark, because all the stars are on the Broad Sound Book Club this week—join
@justinh94.bsky.social
and
@ethanwarren.bsky.social
plus special guests
@danklain.bsky.social
and
@dodgyboffin.com
, to discuss Chapters 2 and 3 of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland!
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Jameson Draper
2 months ago
It’s alright! It’s okay! There’s something to live for— Jesus told me so!
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New today on the podcast feed: Jameson Draper joins
@ethanwarren.bsky.social
to discuss the perfection of American Movie on a new Eye of the Beholder
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New today on the site: an interview with Rachel Crawford of Akimbo Bookshop in Rochester, NY
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Words Akimbo: An Interview with Rachel Crawford (Suhasini Patni)
Rachel Crawford (photo courtesy of the subject) “When there’s federal freezes, tariffs, and the stock market is crashing, the first thing people will do is stop buying books. They don’t need books;…
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/14/words-akimbo-an-interview-with-rachel-crawford-suhasini-patni/
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cmcrockford.bsky.social
2 months ago
For any Dennis Potter/British TV nerds, I recently talked about The Singing Detective for the
@broadsoundmag.com
podcast
broadsoundmag.com/podcast/
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New today on the site:
@roxanellanque.bsky.social
on The Tarantino Ten and the curse of a self-imposed legacy
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The Tarantino Ten and the Curse of a Self-Imposed Legacy (Roxane Llanque)
Wikimedia Commons (Gage Skidmore) Director Quentin Tarantino seems to have put quite a weight on his shoulders through his long-held and self-imposed rule to make no more than ten films. He chose t…
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/11/the-tarantino-ten-and-the-curse-of-a-self-imposed-legacy-roxane-llanque/
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New on the podcast feed: a new Eye of the Beholder in which Greg White and
@ethanwarren.bsky.social
discusses the perfection of Sideways (2004)
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Richard O'Brien
3 months ago
You can now read my whole essay about ‘You Or Your Memory’ and the Mountain Goats’ ‘confessional turn’ for free on the
@broadsoundmag.com
website!
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The Confessional Turn (Richard O’Brien) – Broad Sound
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The Confessional Turn (Richard O’Brien)
John Darnielle in New Orleans, 2008 (Wikimedia Commons – Tobin) John Darnielle never checked into a bargain-price room on La Cienega—or if he did, he didn’t write a song about it. One online …
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/08/the-confessional-turn-richard-obrien/
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New today on the site:
@notrockyhorror.bsky.social
analyzes and contextualizes
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
's "You or Your Memory" in another sample from our special edition "The Sunset Tree at 20"
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The Confessional Turn (Richard O’Brien)
John Darnielle in New Orleans, 2008 (Wikimedia Commons – Tobin) John Darnielle never checked into a bargain-price room on La Cienega—or if he did, he didn’t write a song about it. One online …
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/08/the-confessional-turn-richard-obrien/
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A minor programming note: if you’re waiting for more of the Broad Sound Book Club, you’ll have to wait another week—Vineland is shifting to a “two chapters every other week” cadence. Tune in next Saturday for chapters 2 and 3!
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Justin Hairston
3 months ago
Thrilled to be back in
@broadsoundmag.com
writing about a very American movie and how, well… BRUTALIST it is:
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It’s Brutal Out Here (Justin Hairston)
A24 If it feels impossible to write about a painting movie without using the obvious metaphorical palette, try writing about The Brutalist without comparing it to its subject’s subject. Everything …
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/03/its-brutal-out-here-justin-hairston/
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New today on the site: "Try writing about The Brutalist without comparing it to its subject’s subject. Everything about its construction seems designed to earn the word monumental." -
@justinh94.bsky.social
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It’s Brutal Out Here (Justin Hairston)
A24 If it feels impossible to write about a painting movie without using the obvious metaphorical palette, try writing about The Brutalist without comparing it to its subject’s subject. Everything …
https://broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/03/its-brutal-out-here-justin-hairston/
3 months ago
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Sloth or entropy
3 months ago
The new
@broadsoundmag.com
offering is really lovely and full of smart, moving stuff (blown away by
@goblins.download
’s comic for one thing). Just delighted to be part of this project and happy there’s a printed volume to peruse
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Richard O'Brien
3 months ago
The
@broadsoundmag.com
Sunset Tree special edition is out in the world, featuring my essay on 'You Or Your Memory' and ideas of confessionalism, form, and reshaping the past on the Mountain Goats' breakthrough album. You can get the paperback on Amazon, or whole book in pdf here:
broadsoundstore.com
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cmcrockford.bsky.social
3 months ago
Had a lovely time talking about this BBC series!
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New today on the podcast feed: on a new Eye of the Beholder,
@cmcrockford.bsky.social
joins
@ethanwarren.bsky.social
to discuss the 1986 miniseries The Singing Detective
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