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