Part 2 of a "Crritic!" Top 10: viral Mtl duo Angine de Poitrine & past "anonymous" artists like @theresidents.bsky.social; more on protest music; Destroyer w/ @paranoiacs.bsky.social; Ashbery's afterlife w/ @parisreview.bsky.social; & Beggar Weeds' return. carlwilson.substack.com/p/heres-to-s...

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POLLSTAR: To what do you attribute your longevity? In many ways, you seem like an eternal adolescent. JONATHAN RICHMAN: Me, young? If so, perhaps gratitude for life itself comes into play. news.pollstar.com/2026/02/10/t...

I Was a Punk for the FBI: Brian James Schill speaks with the founders of ‘Punk’ magazine on its 50th anniversary about whether they were surveilled by the feds

Roses are red It’s time to bring back the blogs

Happy Birthday to The Queen from all of us all over here and there. 💥🎂😻🙏🏽💕🌟🛸

Splendid alt movie poster for 1935’s “The Bride Of Frankenstein” by Tristan Eaton & The Hundreds.

Happy Friday ! Here are the CRAMPS … youtu.be/LPl4_vQ9vZo

tbt when i read that post to actual damon albarn www.vulture.com/2021/11/damo...

[Extremely “Outshined” voice] I’m feeling frame mogged, frame mogged, frame mogged

Giving real "David Brooks in the Epstein Files" energy.

I wrote this about my friend Nikki Delamotte a few years ago too. anniezaleski.substack.com/p/i-am-tryin...

New hardcore column on a soul-stirring Division Of Mind/Eliminators show and new tracks from Knocked Loose/Denzel Curry, Holder, Crush Your Soul, Unreal City, Killing Pace, Giallo, Loose Leash, Burning Lord, Taker, & Ritual Cross.

I interviewed Matheson in his Belsize Park local when @mojomagazine.bsky.social made Sick On You its 2015 book of the year. Yes, it was like meeting a real-life Withnail, albeit one who had aged far better. I am only now discovering that we lost him in May of last year.

THIS WEEK ON THE RECORD STORE DAY PODCAST FIRST RECORD I EVER BOUGHT, Pt 2: with JEFF BRIDGES, KEN POMEROY, JOHN C. REILLY, ELIZABETH STOKES, JASON FALKNER, SEAN ONO LENNON, ERIC PULIDO, SWAMP DOGG, and S.G. GOODMAN. The RSD Podcast, Wherever you get your podcasts or: bit.ly/RSDPODCAST

this essay i wrote about THE FABULOUS STAINS is proving to be the most popular thing I have ever, ever written: www.salon.com/2026/01/27/t...

lil xan goes to washington by @ekkoastral.bsky.social out now on every platform that sells your data to advertisers

behold — a handy recap of the past week on The Tonearm in newsletter format (Liam Kazar! KMRU! Fausto Romitelli! wavepool! Stephen Vitiello!), plus some bonus nuggets from our interview with @room40.bsky.social (click it) → www.thetonearm.com/r/82608e36?m...

Yesterday's thrift find. A mixed Portuguese/German group doing Portuguese folk music.

If you forgot to get a Valentine card for your main squeeze (or side piece, who am I to judge?) I got you covered?

Twenty years ago this week, I landed my first-ever byline at Pitchfork, so this week at the stübermania newsletter, I look back at two decades of dishing out the decimals—complete with ultra-scientific statistical breakdown! stubermania.substack.com/p/a-reflecti...

speaking of anniversaries maybe they should update this title

Sure do love having inescapable student loan debt and no healthcare because of this bullshit.

Black Sabbath released their debut album on this date in 1970.

PSA Jason Takes Manhattan just started on Pluto TV. All aboard ⛴️

The OG: youtu.be/OTn01jjEFfY?...

Some classic Staple Singers arrived in time for my Friday night listening session. The intro of "I'll Take You There" always makes my reggae brain default to "Liquidator" by Harry J until the song kicks in.

New Angel Du$t is one of the coldest records of 2026 music.apple.com/us/album/col...

"...the 'need a favor' singer has announced that he's 'taking his talents to palm beach'..."

Re sharing for the morning crowd! My book on women and punk is out in 4 months! 😲😲😲

shmekko shmashtral

Yesterday Ekko Astral announced our second album with a lead single called “lil xan goes to washington” Today I reveal why we wrote a story about Lil Xan: it was a nickname I went by with my close friends before I transitioned. Here is the most vulnerable thing I’ve ever written. Hope you read.

Happy Black History Month to doom metal band Vagina Witchcraft

"Undoubtedly the most revered beatmaker in hip-hop’s five-decade history, James Dewitt Yancey - better known as J Dilla or Jay Dee - is one of those rare musical talents that forever alters the direction of not only his chosen genre, but popular music as a whole."

For folks in the DMV area! @ekkoastral.bsky.social release day in-store performance at @byrdlandrecords.bsky.social! Gonna be special. Though we do insist you visit your local record store irl, you can pre-order the D.C.-exclusive LP variant through them ~ shop.byrdlandrecords.com/ekko-astral-...

@imgarysuarez.bsky.social Canadian zombie wrestler movie.

This season on CABBAGES, we're watching wrestling movies. This week's episode is no exception. www.cabbageshiphop.com/podcast-dark...

A playlist and some words about why music writing matters. (Plus, a photo of my teenage bedroom. I have not changed.) anniezaleski.substack.com/p/music-writ...

Why can't everyone be this useful when it comes to trying to find the video of Steve Doocy (it maybe Brian Kilmeade) asking Tommy Dreamer and Rob Van Dam to toss his salad on Fox and Friends?!?!?

Snuck it in right before the deadline, here's my entry to Tiny Desk 2026: an easy-to-learn protest song that I hope is useful to folks on the ground protecting their neighbors and fighting fascists.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

i wrote about watching bad bunny's super bowl halftime show (preceded by months of people arguing over bad bunny's super bowl halftime show) www.vulture.com/article/bad-...

Speeball has the right idea. If you're getting pineapple, throw some jalapeño on it, too.

Joy

This new Cartoon record is a bonafide face-melter. Rock music for the freaks. humanheadstonepresents.bandcamp.com/album/theatr...

combing through the epstein emails to see if he ever emailed strongbad

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):