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some personal news, i just released *three* full albums of original material toda--

"physically Google" is 10/10

RIP clarence carter. this is one of the most astonishing recordings ever made imo www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTSB...

there are actually a lot of notable exceptions!!! so many that I would argue that the first part of this sentence is simply wrong

Narrated two great articles on @theatlantic.com this week + @jackhamilton.bsky.social on Heartland Rock + Hua Hsu on the photos of Lee Friedlander www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... Shoutout to @harkaudio.com and The Atlantic for prioritizing human narrators!

the real list is smokey robinson, everyone else is playing for second

greatest dead american songwriters list would be a true banger

I wrote about heartland rock for the new issue of the atlantic www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I reviewed MICHAEL, a bad movie that does some things very well, which in many ways makes it worse slate.com/culture/2026...

happy birthday marvin gaye www.youtube.com/watch?v=icLb...

media always talking about disaffected young men... what about affected young men

the social media era is such a weird cycle of things being discovered and then known and then forgotten and then (re) discovered and then known and then forgotten and this just repeating endlessly

i wrote about peaky blinders and the new movie, which is entertaining but ultimately kind of unsatisfying slate.com/culture/2026...

replying to every political email I get from Steve Kerr with a 3-1 lead meme

the best led zeppelin lyric is the bit about the church in "hey hey what can I do." the second best is rhyming "breakdown" with "breakdown" on "communication breakdown"

Sally4ever

wrote about morgan neville's excellent new documentary about paul mccartney's 1970s slate.com/culture/2026...

i hope it's just the incredibly annoying ad campaign but THE BRIDE looks waayyyyyy too joker. never ever ever go joker

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2026) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LLb...

phenomenal nile rodgers interview here, so much going on in this paragraph www.vulture.com/article/nile...

"can't do it sally" has to be one of the coldest line readings in film history. RIP to one of the greatest www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFqg...

shouldn't expect more from someone still obsessed with "cancel culture" in 2026 but this is just staggeringly ill-informed. wilson was absolutely exceptionally racist by the standards of his day, it's all over the historical record. even many of his present-day defenders concede this! read a book

“Nothing but Trouble” (1991) “Mother!” (2017)

I think my favorite critique of the BB halftime show booking was "the players don't even listen to him!" which a) is almost certainly untrue and b) presumes that a whole bunch of dudes on, say, the 2009 saints were huge fans of the who

Imagine if Bad Bunny came out and just did a whole set of CCR covers in a flawless Fogerty fake-Cajun accent

I think what i've come around to w/ cole is that if you always felt like his stuff was boring and derivative (as I did) then you also weren't really the intended audience for it (too old, too jaded). it reminds me some of the way older people used to complain about the strokes when I was younger

weirdly comforting that we're doing j cole discourse once more... you can always go home again

the people who are outraged over bad bunny are not worth engaging, they don't know anything about him and don't want to learn anything about him, they just need to be mad at whatever right-wing media tells them to be mad at because they've forgotten any other way to live their lives

funniest thing about the kid rock clip is that it doesn't even seem like his mic is on

I teach this song in various contexts almost every semester and every time i'm reminded that it's one of the very best pieces of american art ever made www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKbP...

David Adelman looks like a Garbage Pail Kid version of Pete Buttigieg

okay who let iñárritu make another movie

the dano thing was weird and stupid but suggesting that Tarantino doesn't watch non-Anglophone movies is one of the more insane things i've ever read

as a former 90s teen I am unconvinced of the necessity of a counting crows documentary

wrote about the new deluxe reissue of the best album that's called LET IT BE slate.com/culture/2025...

We have the PREDATOR sequel PREDATOR: BADLANDS. Now we just need the BADLANDS sequel BADLANDS: PREDATOR.

i'm in the middle of listening to this and it's unsurprisingly really great. check it out!

slate's doing a pop-up series on biopics so of course I wrote about the GOAT slate.com/culture/2025...

awesome story, truly takes some unexpected twists and turns www.thecut.com/article/nann....

oh okay i'm just supposed to trust the guy who got fired from g'n'r

from over the weekend: I reviewed HBO's new IT spinoff series, which is mostly just terrible slate.com/culture/2025...

deleted social media from my phone a while back so haven't been around much lately but dropping in here to share something I wrote about d'angelo, whose music meant the world to me slate.com/culture/2025...

this would seem to blow a pretty big hole in the idea that the clippers didn't know about kawhi's fake sponsorship deal www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...

the best lists are both highly thoughtful/informed and deftly calibrated to ignite a ton of arguments. on both counts this is a real triumph www.indiewire.com/lists/best-7...

THE NAKED GUN was so, so good. just incredibly funny and well-done. one small-ish thing I absolutely loved was how much Danny Huston's performance as the villain seemed to be riffing off his dad's as Noah Cross

wrote about my experience watching hbo's big new billy joel documentary, which I really wanted to like despite disliking his music slate.com/culture/2025...

In recent years there seems to be a growing consensus among adults that music that children love is inherently awesome as art, and I am morbidly fascinated by this development. needless to say I would push back on it, lol

it's impossible to do justice to sly's art and legacy but I did my best slate.com/culture/2025...

sacha jenkins and rick derringer passing away within a few days of each other feels unexpectedly consonant to me. two obscenely talented people who influenced american music in profound and unique ways