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

I thought SINNERS was phenomenal but a lot of the reviews i've read seem to miss the mark about what (I think) the movie is saying about american music. the porosity, and all the gruesomeness that comes with it, is the point

re-upping from the weekend: I wrote about my favorite show on tv and why i'm going to miss it so very much slate.com/culture/2025...

wrote about my favorite show on tv, for probably the last time. the righteous gemstones was such a gift and i'm going to miss it so much slate.com/culture/2025...

I wrote about the new daredevil resurrection, which is unfortunately about as good as you'd expect from the current MCU slate.com/culture/2025...

the rotten tomatoes ranking of every best picture winner by tomatometer score is so funny

what in the world www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...

The ever eloquent @jackhamilton.bsky.social on the new Sly Stone doc Sly Lives! (@questlove.bsky.social and @jazzbeezy.bsky.social's highly anticipated follow-up to Summer of Soul, out now on Hulu), the burden of Black superstardom and the fascinating concept of "genius."

I wrote about SLY LIVES!, questlove's terrific new sly stone documentary slate.com/culture/2025...

publicist pitch from hell

I wrote about the new led zeppelin documentary that's currently in theaters, which I really liked. more music docs that actually take their subject and audience seriously! slate.com/culture/2025...

not his worst but "angie" might be my personal least favorite mick jagger vocal performance. it's so mawkish and hollow. amazing that it's the same guy who sang "shine a light" just a year earlier. to quote brennan huff what the fuck happened

"nanker phelge" is such a perfect pseudonym. just inside the realm of plausibility for an actual british guy's name ca. 1963

"nanker phelge" is such a perfect pseudonym. just inside the realm of plausibility for an actual british guy's name ca. 1963

sorry but this guy is a fucking idiot www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Loved the part where all the Newport squares are flipping out over Bob’s rock music and we get a shot of Pete Seeger looking meaningfully— longingly, even— at a row of axes. Incredible visual storytelling from James Mangold, America’s greatest living filmmaker

finally saw a complete unknown. kind of a side detail but what was up with the weird smear-job of alan lomax? lomax wasn't some crotchety moldy fig, he was very pro-rock and roll as far back as the 1950s.

emilia perez's success feels like an extreme case of a tendency to praise works of art for being *about* things rather than considering how they are about them and/or what they're actually saying about them. in other words quintessential oscar shit