Winner gets decided via a series of mythical quests

Thanks @bandcamp.com! More praise for @nathanevansfox.bsky.social ~ "Hoo boy… Here’s a record that snuck up on me and then blew me away while writing this." @bcsalmon.bsky.social

@nathanevansfox.bsky.social's 'Heirloom' is @bandcamp.com's Album of the Day!

What is the song of the South in 2026? We're pretty sure several of them are on this guy's new album. Read the conversation our editor, @chuckreece.bsky.social, had with @nathanevansfox.bsky.social. Fave lyric: "When the lord comes back, the rich get scared." www.salvationsouth.com/nathan-evans...

pretty stunning album!

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of @nathanevansfox.bsky.social’s “Racecar” (@freedirtrecords.bsky.social). “Stock-car racers engage in systematic neuroses, risking their lives to win at doing the same thing over and over again. It’s a powerful metaphor.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/05/28/m...

Mother’s Day its as good a time as any to remind everybody the only reason we are here as a species is because we feed, house, and nurture one another. We live because somebody somewhere, no matter how imperfectly, decided we were kin.

The genre is Comrade Country. The artist is @nathanevansfox.bsky.social. The new music is here freedirt.ffm.to/nathan-evans.... Give it some spins!

@nathanevansfox.bsky.social on singing towards Jubilee and liberation and fighting for a better future for the South! Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

Had a great time chatting comrade country

Bros will make country music like actual country spaces aren’t dying off due to biodiversity loss, suburbanization, privatization, data center installations, and a bunch more mess. Miss me with ur singing about the country without a lick of anti-capitalist rage and grief.

Come for the legal writing smackdown, stay for the music recommendations. Never heard of Nathan Evans Fox before this morning and now I have his song stuck in my head. It’s a cousin song to Childer’s “Bitin’ List”

We snuck in two links to your new songs in this week’s roundup, @nathanevansfox.bsky.social Had ‘lots of beginnings’ on repeat as I was writing this week’s newsletter.

Really enjoyed talking to Leah and Andrew a while back on their pod.

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Here to keep our collective sanity barely bobbing above the surface. It’s a honor to serve.

It’s finally happening. Tell ur grandma. She will remember me.

Yall ain’t convincing me hushpuppies aren’t southern falafel

They’d rather create a bubble and shuffle around gobs of money among the worlds wealthiest than fund literacy and art initiatives. That’s what AI is. It’s an investment in everything but the people (or people altogether for that matter).

I stg half these ai bros subconsciously like using that trash because they get to cosplay a private equity suit laying off workers, profitmaxxing, and enshittifying what other folks worked hard to perfect. It’s playing flea market CEO.

The wild thing about ai is the people who ‘need’ it don’t have the critical skills to know if it generated something good. Writing for people who can’t be bothered to read.

We just hit water bankruptcy and the libs are churning out AI birds like God just told them to build an ark.

So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

My current fave right wing troll talking point is “you weren’t mad about it when Obama did it!” Babe, don’t put a limit on my anger. I’m a hillbilly—holding a grudge is my culture.

Where did all the protest singers go? Spotify laid them all off.

Discourse is dumb. Prepping for the general strike is fun.

D2 mighty ducks ass timeline

Before I hear some dummy say the South voted for people to freeze to death

Blessed are the disloyal

We could have been at BRUNCH Brutally Relentless Unforgiving Nfinite Capitalist Hellscape

Tbh one of the hardest parts of talking to liberals is that they’re so individualist they can’t realize they’re part of a centuries long colonial tradition.

Tatordiscourse

Leftist reading groups are out. Leftist pickup hoops are in. If Kash Patel is gonna surveil me, he’s gonna get a hoops mix tape.

They should make plugins but like outside your computer

After the revolution there will be a special gulag for YouTube commenters

Damn. The libs are really holding a lil too much complexity rn. We don’t need you to qualify your condemnation of US intervention with a condemnation of Maduro. Goodgawd.

issa good read

Please read substack.com/@nathanevans...

See here’s the thing. I play shows. If you wanna leave weird comments, you can come say them to me.

I haven’t wanted to say it but YOLO. Jesse Wells is not John Prine. He isn’t even close.

Giving everybody family size Fernet and a Hamilton DVD for Xmas

This song has been rolling in my head for days since I heard it. Burn and balm all in one. “When Noah set to build his ark he cried a bunch and steeled his heart for a world that was falling apart and the shame of living through it” Thanks @nathanevansfox.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/adO6_...

For musicians, AI is a mode of cultural creation, not a tool for it. It’s a mode that is anti-worker, anti-art, anti-community, anti-critique. It’s a means of automation that requires dispossession to operate.

Imagine Brandon Carlile

The reason I can’t trust liberal empathy is because it devolves into the kind of sentimental mush that can’t account for reactionaries, loyalists, and counter revolutionaries. They’ll be like ‘😭 I’m so sorry the revolution took away your *very profitable family farm* 🫶🏻🙏🏻’