wrote about my favorite album of the year by a band that continues to surprise me. bangers on bangers of every shape and size. a brutally fun 31-minute masterpiece that shoehorns meathead hardcore, art/noise guitar textures, seattle-via-nola grunge, and even houston rap
From nu-metal to Madchester and beyond, the Austin metal trio Portrayal of Guilt's ambitious fourth album brings all their disparate influences under one roof
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paul: his version of the “maxwell’s silver hammer” sessions. everyone thinks he’s a genius and no one makes fun of him
ringo: entirely animated
john: pompous, overlong, oliver stone-style political drama with inscrutable messaging
george: indian actor plays george
I wrote about my favorite album of the year so far for @pitchfork. I was really excited for what this band would do next and this album actually exceeded my expectations pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
i am at a 30th anniversary screening of trainspotting and my wife is at bright eyes’ 20th anniversary i’m wide awake/digital ash show. look who’s sitting in front of her
If I were one of NYC's numerous billionaires, I would simply replace Caputo's oven and steam generator for them, thus delighting untold New Yorkers for what would be the equivalent of $5.00, and then keep doing fun little favors like this until I died
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navigating the fucked up, unneccesary, morally complicated, and sometimes kind of funny world of AI rap videos in the column this week pitchfork.com/thepitch/on-ai…
now that lianne la havas’ “weird fishes” has been out for six years i feel secure in calling it one of my all-time favorite covers youtube.com/watch?v=AHeW8McM…
i was front row at this show and remember it fondly. malkmus’ wife passed out cherry garcia bars to us. flava flav walked in front of the stage and i shook his hand and he told me, passionately, “i love pavement”
also, for the record, they didn’t technically headline. massive attack played after them.
at the end of that set, i’d been in the pit for almost eight hours. a sincere thank you to my water bottle of vodka for dehydrating me enough to handle that without bathroom breaks