Happy 91st birthday to the incomparable Terry Riley, one of our greatest American seekers.

RIP MAGGOT BRAIN — the only magazine that would ever pay me to write a 7,000 word history of a Feelies side project that never released a record

patrons to the estimable @aquariumdrunkard.com can read my thoughts on inferno, boards of canada's subtle & surreal new album (DM if you positively *need* a link): aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/06/b...

Read Issue Seventeen Mentions from @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, @arh12.bsky.social, @elvia-wilk.bsky.social, @emotrophywife.bsky.social and more. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

howard brookner's recently rescued documentary is an excellent entry point to the work of the late robert wilson, screening tonight at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social. i wrote about it for my friends at @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/rob...

RIP to michael parenti, many of whose impassioned, penetrating, often amusing lectures are collected on this stealth podcast channel podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

is there a metabolic turn in experimental rock? does it hold potential for a new aesthetic confrontation with the data regime? what my friends at @thewiremagazine.bsky.social indulged me to suggest is, maybe? www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

got to interview weir maybe a dozen times & he was always lovely. but he also spoke very slowly, with long thoughtful pauses that made me think we'd been disconnected, but i didn't want to be interupt. so once, when we actually did get disconnected mid-thought, it took me far too long to notice.

To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

once you’ve been ejected from your fifth screening of marty supreme, make your way to metrograph this week for luc moullet’s cowboy psychogeography, A GIRL IS A GUN, which i wrote about for @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...

more sad news from the merry prankster family: just heard that springfield creamery proprietor (& organic yogurt innovator) chuck kesey has departed, only a few months after his wife sue. we spoke with them both about the dead's infamous 1972 benefit a few years ago. www.dead.net/deadcast/sun...

NYC TO CUOMO: DROP DEAD

godspeed donna jean

i greatly enjoyed thinking my way through @willsloanesq.bsky.social’s tender & amusing biography, ED WOOD: MADE IN HOLLYWOOD USA. read my blood-curdling (not festive) review over at MUBI’s Notebook: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

back at it in the World's Only Music Magazine with a feature on the delightful new record from Andy Boay (a.k.a. Andy from Tonstartssbandht), and a festival experience at Dripping in which all of my atoms were split. buy before you try...

Pairing Laurel Canyon splendor with a surreal perspective, the Wand frontman’s latest solo album offers wry portraits of the strange characters and bleak situations that populate modern life

cory hanson has made another jukebox of bouncy & beautiful tunes about our contemporary psychosis. i wrote about it for @pitchfork.com: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

On a new Willem de Kooning exhibition, by @cryinmeehan.bsky.social

almost forgot to mention, zohran’s victory got me so hopped up i entered a fugue state and wrote my first substack about what challenges the future might hold open.substack.com/pub/eeeesspe...

i’ll take my expressionism: abstract, with a healthy cloud of suspicion thank you very much

andrew cuomo, leave new york city

what movie (now in theaters) deserves such scorn? you’re going to have to crack the latest @thewiremagazine.bsky.social to find out or you can ask me personally. it’s really pretty obvious. but i’d prefer you buy the magazine & read the full review www.thewire.co.uk/issues/497

🙏 Ryan Meehan @cryinmeehan.bsky.social for this - if you still don't know anything about Michael Hurley, you can get started here, and it's not a long read. Dare I say: fans of @ivorcutler.bsky.social, or of our own @littlejohnnee.bsky.social, are in for a treat. Such a truly unique talent.

the latest from @stereolabgroop.bsky.social plays like a series of melancholy landscapes viewed from the window of a trans-europe express. i reviewed their enjoyable reunion record, Instant Holograms on Metal Film, for my friends at @aquariumdrunkard.com: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/06/03/s...

those of you longing for a hot götterdämmerung summer should consider checking out john milius' ungainly surf epic BIG WEDNESDAY, screening at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social this very afternoon. wrote 'er up for my friends at @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/big...

Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/ryan-meehan-remembers-michael-hurley

i wrote about nirvana, the soviet union, and the two meanings of "alternative" for @screenslate.bsky.social on the occasion of tonight's screening of dave markey's 1991: THE YEAR PUNK BROKE at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social williamsburg: www.screenslate.com/articles/199...

surely nothing will go wrong with this one