New Xray Recommends is live - a paean to Brandi Homan’s Burn Fortune, Kristin Garth’s Daddy, Danielle Chelosky’s Pregaming Grief, and the 1969 movie musical Paint Your Wagon! @clashbooks.bsky.social @anxietypress.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/dave-fitzger...

It arrived! Thank you @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social & @whiskeytit.com! I can’t wait to start this insane 581-page reading journey!

New review up on Goodreads of @davidscotthay.bsky.social's The Butcher of Nazareth (for which, full bias alert, I also wrote the introduction). Second Coming soon from @whiskeytit.com www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Been relearning an important writing lesson this week. Half the battle is just getting started. Sitting down and doing it whether you’re tired or not. Whether you feel like it or not. Whether it’s the NBA playoffs or not. Once you get going, there’s no better feeling in the world.

Back on Heavy Feather Review for the first time in a minute to gush and fawn over Stefan O. Rak's staggering New Roses, a kinetic, genius level work of paranoiac enlightenment. Out now from @whiskeytit.com heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/04/18/n...

More like More Hell Yeah! 🔥🔥🔥

It's a good podcast!

Checked in on the old Goodreads page this week and was thrilled to discover Troll now has over 50 ratings, and nearly 20 reviews, including these two recent gems! If you’ve read and haven’t rated/reviewed, please consider doing so. If you haven’t read, do that! @whiskeytit.com

-Got to see Water Damage recently, and I don’t think any album could capture the relentless power of their live drone. But this one is a great place to start. -YHWH Nailgun is doing something unique with raw abandon. That goes a long way with me. -RIP Roy Ayers. The mf’n realest.

Flesh. Fleshy flesh flesh. Flesssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. 🤤

I was prepared to hate this review, but then it got super nice at the end! Thanks to the the man with the kind face @jchaplinsky.bsky.social for taking a chance on Troll. You’re not the first person to tell me it’s something of an antidote to Fuccboi. @whiskeytit.com

Stop by the @whiskeytit.com booth 563 at #AWP and pick up an ultra-limited preview copy of @davidscotthay.bsky.social’s latest mindbreaker: The Butcher of Nazareth (official release - Feb. 2026). If you check the fine print on that badass cover, you'll notice that I wrote the introduction!

New review up on Goodreads of @ginatron.bsky.social's harrowing memoir of post-Columbine fear and smalltown paranoia, out now from our shared mother goddess @whiskeytit.com ! Go snag one at #AWP25 this weekend! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Thanks Noah! Glad you dug it. @whiskeytit.com

Ah, that special time of year when I get hype for March Madness, fill out 2 or 3 brackets with different friend groups, sit down to watch the first game, and am instantly reminded how much better the NBA is than college basketball.

-that dog. are so in the pocket for me I'm honestly shocked I'd never heard of them 'til now -Merope so sparkly!💎🤩💎 -Trees > Forest > Woods -Earth vs. The Wildhearts is incredibly stupid fun. Killer songwriting about being the asshole at the party. Like if Gn'R went full punk

Holy shit! Had an outpatient procedure today and woke up to this. Am I dreaming? Am I in Oz? What a dazzling, humbling slate of writers to see my name among. Huge thanks to James Nulick and @anxietypress.bsky.social including me in this murderer’s row. 🔥🖤

-Great Falls is some mathy-ass hardcore. Makes me wanna mosh at weird angles. Fuck up my back. -I don't want to oversell Jellyfish, but it's giving Freddy Mercury doing Brian Wilson songs with ELO. Crazy fun. -Saffron Bloom is some sexy-ass dub. Makes me wanna give back massages.

Lotta folks I admire posting resource lists of late. For anyone seeking insight into the growing threat of Christian Nationalism & the evangelical right, here’s a solid primer. Armstrong in particular is an international treasure @jasonachristian.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @videstellae.bsky.social

-RIP Porridge Radio. You never wasted our time -Syclops is one of the best electronic artists I've come across in a minute. Shimmery, complex and eminently danceable -Starting to come around on Boldy James -The Pangaea/Agharta back-2-back listening experience never, ever gets old

New review up on Goodreads of Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of them Are Yours, a kaleidoscopic, mind-expanding cannonball run across the vanishing American frontier brought to you by the good folks at Fiction Collective 2 @fictioncollective2.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Mac McClung fatigue - when you literally see someone once a year, and it still feels like too much.

Don’t write to get on year-end Top 10 lists. Write to get on banned lists. Write to get on burn lists. Write to be the bottommost log on the pile.

-New work schedule means a 30-scrob is now the weekly baseline. -In the past 2 weeks, closed out the colossal catalogues of both Curren$y and Blu. What ultraprolific rapper should I do next (Czarface, AJ Suede, and Estee Nack were other recent obsessions). Help me fall in love!

Team Hoyt ✊

“Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.” ― Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas RIP to a great who never cared about being great

Don't think I saw one person post about Dry January this year.

Ben makin' us look classy AF on a bench somewhere. You love to see it. @whiskeytit.com

-45-album week. I might have a problem. -Uniform saw what was coming for this country, and they made music accordingly🖤 -New FKA Twigs makes me wanna go sweat it all out on the dancefloor ❤️‍🔥 - Listened to Sadness and it actually made me feel kinda better. Check out Sadness.💜

Athens has a new hockey team called the Rock Lobsters. Whenever they score a goal, “Rock Lobster” plays over the loudspeakers - an excellent tactic for demoralizing the other team. I’d like to see us make it the only song we play. Every penalty. Every timeout. Just be relentless. Drive them insane.

You might think you already read enough about the absolute worst types of people. But trust me. This is the guy. @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social @maxtannerrestaino.bsky.social whiskeytit.com/product/troll/

-This was a real chill Scrob. Except for Yowie. Yowie is as not chill as the other 15 albums are chill combined. -Nucleus is making me rethink fusion. Damn them. -Not sure how I’d never heard that Pharoah Sanders/Bill Laswell collab before, but it’s mysterious and gorgeous.

Starting to feel like we can’t write dystopia fast enough anymore. Hopefully AI will help pick up the slack.

Man, these Years of Solitude are really keepin’ it 💯

This has to be a trick, right?

-Prostitute makes me wanna set shit on fire! -As previously tweeted, I am all in on Ethel Cain -If there were a Devil's deal to be made at the crossroads a la Robert Johnson, but for infectious pop hooks instead of blues guitar, I believe The Lemon Twigs made that deal -Nico's The End goes so hard

So I'm finding that the longer I go without Tweeting, the more X is sending me unsolicited thirst traps in my "Recommended Tweets". I guess the algorithm is trying to entice me back into engagement, but I kind of like the passive absolution of just letting the booty come to me.

-17x2! The rarest and most beautiful of all Scrobs -Billy Bang's solo on "Dark Silhouette" is unlike anything I've ever heard on a jazz record -No. 1 Angel still lowkey my fave Charli -Tomorrow in a Year is the sound of a project outgrowing its name -We need more album covers like Snakehips Etcetera

I’ve reached a point where my Instagram feed is like 75% pictures of the books other people are reading, and 25% pictures of their cats. Feels good. Feels right.

-Been getting back into sad bastard music in a big way the past month. Don't see that trend abating anytime soon. -If pop music has a canon, Laura Nyro is a saint. -3 of my all-time favorite jazz records along that bottom row. Sun Ra traipsing the desert. Herbie in space.

Year 2 and Troll’s still topping the charts. Thanks to @uberzensch.bsky.social for including me in this weighty top 5. @whiskeytit.com

-Edward Fortyscrobs -The H&F Recordings Box was so lovely - cratedigger folk of the highest order -How is Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite not a ubiquitous Christmas album classic? -McCoy Tyner’s ecstatic heights + Freddie Hubbard’s metropolitan lower depths makes for 2 hours of 🔥

Fave Small Press Books Read in 24 +Hank Jost's Aquarium @garielle.bsky.social @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social @maxtannerrestaino.bsky.social @steakmtn.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social @sjxsjc.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @twodollarradio.bsky.social @apocalypseparty.bsky.social @incastellated.bsky.social

10 Non-Small Press Books I Dug in '24 Public Burning, Coover Hard Rain Falling, Carpenter The Damned, Huysmans The Kingdom The Power & The Glory, Tim Alberta Ice Storm, Moody Stars at Noon, Johnson In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Gass Correction, Bernhard Beloved, Morrison Libra, DeLillo

If this doesn't put you in the Christmas spirit, I don't know what will. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn0I...

"Can't get enough" he says. "Never laughed so hard" he says. The perfect Christmas gift for anyone on your list this holiday season, he heavily implies. Humorless liberal. Stuffy conservative. Children. The elderly. Troll is a big tent. All are welcome. @whiskeytit.com @hvbooknerd.bsky.social

At the beginning of this year I posted about 6 bigass novels I 100% planned to tackle this year. Major works. Canonical to the last. My intentions were so good. I read one of them. Probably the second-easiest one, were I to guess. ... 2025 Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

10 Best Movies I Saw this Year in No Particular Order Letter Never Sent Medea (1969) The Trial (1962) They Shoot Horses Don't They Road House (1989) The Red and the White The Devil Probably First Man The Mother and the Whore Jigoku (As for new stuff - The Substance was sick)

Top 10 Artists I Got Way Into This Year Despite Their Not Necessarily Being New or Having Put Anything New Out 10.) Estee Nack 9.) Guitar Wolf 8.) John Klemmer 7.) Lightning Bolt 6.) AJ Suede 5.) Mahavishnu Orchestra 4.) The Durutti Column 3.) Czarface 2.) Abul Mogard 1.) Bombino

As year-end wrap-up season is upon us, I would once again remind all who celebrate to take things slow, don't overdo it, stretch before and after, and remember to hydrate. Listicular Torsion is real, and it's very uncomfortable.