Writing, editing, listening. Formerly at AltPress, occasionally at SPIN.
Joined February 2009
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21 Nov 2022
If you haven’t started collecting records yet, DON’T.
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15 May 2025
SoCal! Head over to Stories in Echo Park tonight at 7:30 where Paul Barker, Andy Wombwell, Judy Pokonosky and I will be discussing the zeitgeist surrounding Ministry’s 1988 game-changer, THE LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY and my book in Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series
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29 Mar 2025
Had a digital breakfast with Thurston Moore and Michael Rother before their appearance at Knockdown Center in Brooklyn tomorrow. Thanks to the lovely folks at @SPIN for the invite!
spin.com/2025/03/michael-rot…
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5 Nov 2024
Dear Musicians With Sampling Gear: Please commit this to your hard drives. You will be needing it next year for something, I swear…
Vance: You know something Donald Trump will never do? Donald Trump will never go out there and say that his fellow citizens should be censored or silenced for disagreeing with them.
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10 Sep 2024
RT @MollyJongFast: Can someone explain to me why this is not on the front page of every newspaper?
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22 Aug 2024
PhilFree repping my fave band in life. Thank you, you prince…
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30 Jun 2024
Grand River & Abdul Mogard, IN UNO SPAZIO IMMENSO #NoRockSunday
light-years.bandcamp.com/alb…
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29 Jun 2024
Martin Mull and Flo & Eddie on PBS’ SOUNDSTAGE. I saw this when I was a kid and loved it. Extra points if you recognize Greg Hawkes from the Cars playing sax in Mull’s band…
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27 Jun 2024
Halftime report: 6 months in, what’s the state of music in 2024?
59%
Surprisingly great TBH
12%
Dismal AF
29%
Nobody cares, fucko
17 votes • Final results
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26 Jun 2024
Pound this message into @nytimes' editors' heads daily.
25 Jun 2024
I never would have thought it would have been possible that, in the event a behaviorally disordered criminal were to try to undo the American experiment, one of his most effective amplifiers would be the New York f*cking Times.
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23 Jun 2024
Anybody else go grocery shopping, look at the price of something Iike a toothbrush or a box of Triscuits and say out loud, “Naah, fuck YOU”?
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23 Jun 2024
SIX PIECES FOR SOLO VIOLIN, Sophia Jani and Teresa Allgaier. #NoRockSundays
sophiajani.bandcamp.com/albu…
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19 Jun 2024
I’m glad that I was alive the same time James Chance was. youtu.be/S1ZCcp3XaiU?si=ZnJw…
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9 Jun 2024
In keeping with house policy of only classical/ambient/jazz being played on Sunday, here’s Kevin Richard Martin’s dark ambient homage to Amy Winehouse. kevinrichardmartin.bandcamp.…
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29 May 2024
Five-year-old running around steam tables at buffet restaurant perfectly imitating Bernard Sumner’s intro to “Temptation”
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27 May 2024
Respect and gratitude to the memories of the women, men and service animals who gave their Iives in service to this country. #memorialday
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