Last week's #GH started with a heart attack and ended with a teenager being led off to jail in tears. Plenty to discuss in the latest edition of Critical Diagnosis:

Really, really proud of this interview.

Really, really proud of this interview.

"Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins." — Dizzy Gillespie

'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean. A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here

Maybe watching "The Chair Company" at the gym was a mistake.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

What just kills me about every one of these stories is how self-inflicted the damage is. Every one of our states can easily afford an excellent public university system, and across the board (albeit to different degrees) they just don’t want to.

A busy week for the current Big Bad suggests #GH might finally be ready to go somewhere with a long-gestating storyline. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime:

Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Last week's #GH had its issues — but it also proved these writers still remember how to deliver a classic Friday cliffhanger. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime:

Last week's #GH had its issues — but it also proved these writers still remember how to deliver a classic Friday cliffhanger. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime:

For the love of God, can just one interviewer push back on this insanity? There are people seeking political asylum in America. They were not taken out of mental asylums in other countries and brought here. It's a big mistake with big ramifications, but no one wants to correct Our Special Boy.

This will kill kids.

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Do what @soapjenn.bsky.social says and check out my thoughts on last week's #GH!

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Had a fun time talking with Cary Baker for @harmonic.fm about his essential book, "Down On The Corner: Adventures in Busking and Street Music," as well as how street performance is as vital as ever amidst the frictionless doldrums of 21st-century listening: www.harmonic.fm/blog/liner-n...

Better balance and a lot of laughs elevated last week's #GH. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime breaks it all down:

Better balance and a lot of laughs elevated last week's #GH. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime breaks it all down:

It's been a long time since this happened, but none of this week's new releases moved me enough to warrant a recommendation. Thus thwarted, I jumped back 40 years to cover the songs that debuted this week in 1985: www.jefitoblog.com/old-music-fr...

Cayle is the kind of madman we need more of in 2025 — running a mission-driven indie label dedicated to supporting social causes important to its artists. Check out my interview with him for @harmonic.fm:

I am surrounded by jobbernowls and blackguards.

Doing a bit of tab clearance by writing a delayed response to @stevenhyden.bsky.social (with a bonus passing shout-out to @jefito.com ) on whether more music reviews being written by genre experts is a net win: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

Why don't I listen to this album every single night? music.apple.com/us/album/hat...

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end. In the meantime: • Figure out a small way to help someone • Figure out a small way to fight back • Figure out a small place to find joy • Figure out a small way to grow and thrive And do it often.

There's a lot happening on #GH right now — maybe too much. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime:

When you’ve pissed off WeRateDogs so much they’re calling you “fucking losers” on Main you have absolutely lost all merit in the court of public opinion

There's a lot happening on #GH right now — maybe too much. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime:

So nice to speak with @jefito.com for Liner Notes about That Gun In Your Hand. Give it a read! @anvilpress.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social www.harmonic.fm/blog/liner-n...

Jason's written a hell of a book, and I had a good time talking with him about it. Check it out:

100 percent. The editorial culture based around “winning the search” has conditioned us to believe that any take arriving more than 24 hours after the event isn’t worth reading. It’s insane and bad for us overall.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

My latest Liner Notes interview at @harmonic.fm digs into the story and creative philosophy behind Social Cinema's debut LP. A clip from our conversation and the link to the full interview below:

This week’s Critical Diagnosis is all about #GH saying goodbye to Monica Quartermaine:

This week’s Critical Diagnosis is all about #GH saying goodbye to Monica Quartermaine:

Had a great time chatting w @jefito.com from @harmonic.fm the other day. 🙏

Amen and hallelujah!

I loved having this conversation with @fretlesspeter.bsky.social, and appreciated his willingness to take a soulful stroll through the roots of creativity, his songwriting approach, and what it means to be an indie artist in 2025. Hope you'll check it out. Here's a clip + the link to our full chat:

This week's edition of The One After the One-Hit Wonder takes a look at the little-remembered follow-ups to career-defining hits from Vangelis, Willa Ford, Ylvis, Haddaway, and more: www.jefitoblog.com/the-one-afte...

I loved having this conversation with @fretlesspeter.bsky.social, and appreciated his willingness to take a soulful stroll through the roots of creativity, his songwriting approach, and what it means to be an indie artist in 2025. Hope you'll check it out. Here's a clip + the link to our full chat:

Your ears are hungry for new music! Please allow me to feed them with a new Song Recommendations post that rounds up 15 tunes I've been digging lately: www.jefitoblog.com/song-recomme...

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."

Ok, we “saved” Jimmy Kimmel. Now can we bring that same energy to migrants, trans people, BIPOC and women? Or are we just reserving that for rich white guys?

Your ears are hungry for new music! Please allow me to feed them with a new Song Recommendations post that rounds up 15 tunes I've been digging lately: www.jefitoblog.com/song-recomme...

god I hope the rapture really is tomorrow. not that I think I'm gonna make it or anything, I just want some peace and quiet

This is the only way for worthwhile media to survive. Find the voices that resonate with you, and *support them *.

He's as soft as room-temperature butter, and yet people and institutions are caving to him like it's a sport. We live in such a stupid world.

My latest @harmonicfm.bsky.social interview is a chat with the guys behind Tiny Vinyl — a new company selling, you guessed it, tiny (but playable!) collectible records. Watch a clip from the conversation below, and read the full post here: www.harmonic.fm/blog/liner-n...