Miami-based writer and uni professor/@pitchfork, @stereogum, @billboard, @SPIN, etc./ vice chair of @FLFilmCritics /martini snob.
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Moderna Love Gets Me to the Church on Time retweeted
To be gay in 2026 is to still worry that we'd gone too far: an insouciant remark that boomerangs into my face, a gesture of solidarity misinterpreted into a muddle, an assertion of identity too much for an audience. A reflective post. wp.me/pzXeC-ll7
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Morrissey's swinishness was always there; what he taught me outweighed it, for a while. humanizingthevacuum.wordpres…
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A wounded Stevie Wonder and a Rickie Lee Jones figuring out happiness lead this list, but I got Robert Plant's solo debut, The System, and Anne Murray's Xanaxed cover of an ebullient Beatles track. wp.me/pzXeC-ll4
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My review for @pitchfork of Kehlani's eponymous fifth album. pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
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Steeped in modern R&B and just-behind-the-times hip-hop, Kehlani's self-titled signifies a return to the buoyancy of their debut
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With iconic celebrity guests and “Folded” on the tracklist, Kehlani’s self-titled new album makes a confident return to the buoyant, bassy R&B of SweetSexySavage
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Songs to Remember epitomizes Scritti Politti's attempt to reconcile an art-school background, 1977-era punk ethics, and an obsession with chart pop into a musical statement
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Scritti Politti needed to make Songs to Remember in ordeer to write Cupid & Psyche 85 like a doctoral student needs to write a first draft of a dissertation
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Scritti Politti's long unavailable, newly reissued debut epitomizes its attempt to meld its art-school background, ’70s punk ethics, and obsession with chart pop into one grand statement
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C'est moi.
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Scritti Politti's long unavailable, newly reissued debut epitomizes its attempt to meld its art-school background, ’70s punk ethics, and obsession with chart pop into one grand statement
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Daniel Day-Lewis may have deserved two out of three Oscars, but the second one should've been for PHANTOM THREAD, not for the one involving milkshakes and bowling alleys.
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A pity about THE SECRET AGENT, the best of the bunch, unthinkable as a multi-nominee threat even a decade ago. humanizingthevacuum.wordpres…
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On Bad Bunny two nights ago how he staged the boricua quotidian. The last two minutes played as much as an elegy to an endangered hemispheric comity as an Epcot parade. humanizingthevacuum.wordpres…
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So here it is: what I read in 2025. I discovered Ben Konigsberg, Mavis Gallant's short fiction, and how to keep Trump off my mind. humanizingthevacuum.wordpres…
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Happy birthday to Paramore's Hayley
Williams, one of this century's most compelling frontpersons. humanizingthevacuum.wordpres…
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Every portion of a best-of list should be interchangeable, like the arms and legs of a Transformers combiner. Here's the bottom third of my album list. humanizingthevacuum.wordpres…
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The Florida Film Critics Circle has selected "One Battle After Another" as the best film of 2025. See floridafilmcritics.com/2025/…. #OneBattleAfterAnother
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