Sup folks, the schedule is open! www.patreon.com/posts/154778...

Yeah, I think Dave is probably right. It’s not Bluesky itself: the problem is bigger than that.

New quick episode of the Trailing Edge - that already feels a bit out of date because I've got two more reviews up on my discord already - but if you want to know what songs I loved in March 2026, here you go! youtube.com/shorts/cQf-k...

After finally listening to this RAYE album... Someone please put her in contact with Josh Ramsay (of Marianas Trench). It makes WAY too much sense, especially where both of their careers are.

This New Pornographers album might be more compelling if I hadn't heard Neko Case's project last year. Or any other New Pornographers album the past twenty-plus years.

Also, if anyone actually KNEW that shit, have the stones to name names.

Alright, it's late but it's live - we've got a BTS album bomb to deal with on Billboard BREAKDOWN, enjoy! youtu.be/Joh0-qxmT2o

And now it's live for everyone! Enjoy! youtu.be/z9t1SHeeCNQ

Alright, new and messy episode of Billboard BREAKDOWN here - enjoy? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqO...

Everything about J. Cole's interview run has me wanting to go back to The Fall Off less and less.

I have a lot of great things to say about this underscores album 'u'... but this review kind of got away from me. So yeah, enjoy! youtu.be/65yNwUrskRE

The next video essay - was planning for it to be a simpler and shorter review but the script is gotten well away from me - is going to be on underscores and 'u'. And the album rules, but some of the discourse around it feels painfully shallow, so stay tuned for me to overthink shit!

There's a reason I don't dumb down the language in my scripts and this is one big reason why.

Just aerated my front yard (by that I mean about twenty square feet of barely alive grass) while listening to Aesop Rock. The insane thing I know is that I am not remotely the first person who has ever had this experience.

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And now it's live for everyone! Enjoy! youtu.be/z9t1SHeeCNQ

Not gonna lie, this is the goofiest video I think I've made in years, but I had a ton of fun putting it together and it's now live for Patrons and YouTube Members! Presenting, The Grand Piracy of Johnny Blue Skies and 'Mutiny After Midnight'!

Alright, bit of a rush here, but new Billboard BREAKDOWN is live - big one featuring a Harry Styles album bomb, enjoy! youtu.be/1yd_-8PPQhg

I think I'm going to do everyone a favour and not review this new BTS album. But I'll say this: I've seen a ton of discourse around their sterile and dated attempts at rap and the inane lyrics, but not nearly enough attention on how it sounds produced like the rusty chrome-plated tin can.

I'll be honest, the only reason I haven't deleted the old HP fanfics I wrote 15-20 years ago from fanfiction . net is that I'm certain J. K. Rowling would hate them off the queer gender-bending ALONE. (and not for nothing the writing and worldbuilding is better too ;) )

I'm not sure I'll ever forgive America for letting Luke Combs' 'Fathers & Sons' album fail.

Alright, new and messy episode of Billboard BREAKDOWN here - enjoy? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqO...

Okay, this 'best space albums' list that @consequence.bsky.social put out isn't BAD, per se... But no Ayreon at all? SERIOUSLY? I'm not saying you have to put Universal Migrator on the list, but 01011001 should have absolutely made it. consequence.net/list/best-sp...

some people treat youtube personalities the way they should treat members of congress idk

So, bit of news here on the next video essay - it's on Sturgill Simpson and the 'Mutiny After Midnight' shenanigans - I originally planned to edit it last night, but I ran a few of the jokes I made past my wife and she thought it was a little off-colour. Plus the thesis was... well, shaky.

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Someone needs to talk me out of doing a bad pirate impression in this next video script, which might be the silliest thing I've written in a long time. (I'm having a total blast writing it, btw - this is gonna be a RIOT)

On the one hand, skill issue. On the other hand, you do have to put in the work to find news and SMEs on Bluesky when the algorithm doesn't hand them to you / do your job for you. On the other OTHER hand, I've got less than 150 folks I'm following and I don't have this problem, so SKILL ISSUE.

For those who have been wondering what other reviews currently live on my Discord (for $5+ Patrons and top-tier YouTube members), this week has been my most productive in a while! Harry Styles, James Blake, you are an angel, those reviews are live. Mitski tonight, The Scythe tomorrow!

I can't deny it's a little tacky to clickbait album reviews... but at least for me, this feels like more than that, and I want as many people as possible to hear this. So yeah, this is The Rap Album All Men Should Hear in 2026 - it's great stuff and deserves more attention! youtu.be/qMQaL74OYw8

This is how I hear that Chuck Norris died, and it seems like the only appropriate way to hear about it.

The more I listen to Hilary Duff's 'We Don't Talk', the more I hear 'Somebody That I Used to Know'. Pay attention to the drums and some of the background melody, it's uncanny.

... @shadowtodd.bsky.social , I think it's finally time for this One Hit Wonderland :)

Afroman putting the entire First Amendment on his back and rushing 75 yards only reinforces my conviction that the entire DARE program should have been replaced with Because I Got High, a much more honest analysis of reasons to limit one’s intoxicant consumption

Alright, bit of a rush here, but new Billboard BREAKDOWN is live - big one featuring a Harry Styles album bomb, enjoy! youtu.be/1yd_-8PPQhg

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

I can't deny it's a little tacky to clickbait album reviews... but at least for me, this feels like more than that, and I want as many people as possible to hear this. So yeah, this is The Rap Album All Men Should Hear in 2026 - it's great stuff and deserves more attention! youtu.be/qMQaL74OYw8

Following up, LCD Soundsystem is half of the story with this Harry Styles album. The other side is Paul Simon - which given how often Harry Styles has said it, I'm a little shocked more critics haven't acknowledged it. Has me wondering how many of his albums are remembered besides Graceland...

Alright, new episode of Billboard BREAKDOWN, and it's a long one here, enjoy! youtu.be/SoBC64TLrxk

I'm so happy that I could FINALLY get this out, and even if it doesn't perform, this closes a chapter long overdue. For Patrons and YouTube Members, it's live now: The Rap Album All Men Should Hear in 2026. Click to find out which one it is (and why)!

This next video is half album review, half long-overdue healing exercise, and there's a part of me intensely grateful that its viral likelihood is slim to none. I do apologize in advance to the artist, though. The album is fucking awesome, but there's baggage I had to unpack with this one.

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can this be a solution?

Nothing is weirder than pulling your financial documents together for tax time, and doing your business books, and realizing, '...wait, I thought I made more in 2025 than in 2024'... Then you pull THOSE numbers and realize you actually did! You just made less in 2024 than you remembered.

Every trans person I know has added substantially more to my life than this indolent, decrepit POS. Let trans kids be kids and transition. Let non-binary or gender non-conforming kids exist however they want. Life is too fucking hard to crave this vindictive, baseless cruelty,

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10,000 to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom that's warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I'm not even sure I could justify writing my long-awaited LCD Soundsystem Haters Manifesto on the back of this Harry Styles album. It's too flaccidly derivative to even get that far.

Alright, new episode of Billboard BREAKDOWN, and it's a long one here, enjoy! youtu.be/SoBC64TLrxk

A lot of Critical Role discourse is bad, but if folks find the in-character friction at the Seekers table there difficult, boy howdy would they have struggled with other tables / games I've seen. Hell, late Crown of Candy which nearly reached PvP would have been too much.

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Music policy advocates i know have been working on and fighting for this for YEARS.