Hayley Williams Keeps Showing Up in My Dreams
Hayley Williams, forever a fortifying presence online, IRL and in my dreams. Plus, a new mixtape.
Noise-Rock Crash Course
Noise rock can ruin your life; this list will absolutely destroy it.
I Finally Found My Song to Start the Year
Music has a way of finding you when you need it. My song to start 2026, plus a new mixtape.
Do You Remember What the Music Meant?
For the past two decades, Pretty Make Girls Make Graves' "Speakers Push the Air" has been my song. A song about the power of music, written from the...
Mixtape: Into the Void
Mixtape No. 129 features Good Luck's mathy pop-punk, Shallowater's slowcore twang, Panopticon's epic black metal, Weston Olencki's deconstructed Americana....
The drone-jazz record that never was can now be yours
A few copies of I Heart Lung’s Interoceans have been sitting in my basement for 17 years. It’s time to let them go for a good cause. tl;dr You can buy a test...
Mixtape: New Threats
Mixtape No. 128 features Robert Forster, Enji, Pygmy Lush, Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, Swiz, Matthew Shipp Ed. note: This is one of a handful of...
Mixtape: Different World
Mixtape No. 127 features Dark Thoughts, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Yowie, Broken Record, Mildred, U.S. Maple. In late May, I had a new mixtape (and a...
Mixtape: Nightclouds
Mixtape No. 126 features Josie, ente, Ellen Arkbro, nuvolascara, Stereolab, Moin, Semi Trucks First, some professional news: I'm now the Series Editor of...
Mixtape: Tangerine Drops
Mixtape No. 125 features Fine China, Earth, Kaleidoscope, BIRTH (DEFECTS), Tortoise, XIXA, Wolfgang Voigt By 1995, Dayton, Ohio already had a handful of...
Mixtape: I Am Here And Now
Mixtape No. 124 features, Valentina Goncharova, Yazz Ahmed, Messa, terraplana, Six Organs of Admittance, Florry, caroline It's hard to know what day it is or...
Mixtape: We Care A Lot (Benefit)
Mixtape No. 123 is a mix of benefit comps, singles and whatnot. Another mixtape? So soon? Why not? For the past month and change, I've kept a running thread...
Mixtape: Square the Circle
Mixtape No. 122 features Marshall Allen, Nadah El Shazly, Thanya Iyer, Wendy Eisenberg, Backxwash, Satomimagae Here are some recommendations of things to...
Mixtape: Luna
Mixtape No. 121 features Habak, Pelican, New Jazz Underground, Iron Lung, Sensor Ghost, Eiko Ishibashi When the world is unkind, my dreams tend to compensate...
Mixtape: Magick
Mixtape No. 120 features Bar-B-Q Killers, Thiago Amud, Pink Siifu, Rwake, Orchid, Shannon Wright, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma So, you know how I made a big stink...
Mixtape: Magnolia
Mixtape No. 119 features Lucrecia Dalt, Deafheaven, Circuit Des Yeux, Jules Reidy, Nyron Higor, Lucy Liyou BNDCMPR, my preferred way to share music for the...
Mystics, Headbangers and Dreamers: 2024 in 8 mixtapes
I spent the year making y'all mixtapes and figured that here, at year's end, I should do the same. What follows are eight mixes grouped by different themes...
A Quiet Theatre Kid, A Patient Teacher
Cast photo, circa 2000-2001. The young stunna surrounded by girls in the bottom left is yours truly, terrified to ask any of them out. While I'm constantly...
Mixtape: Skyscape
Mixtape No. 108 features Julia Sabra, Sade, The Sewerheads, FACS, Thirdface, Jules Reidy, Cleo Sol, NEXCYIA. According to my account information, I created...
Mixtape: Never Meant
Mixtape No. 108 includes Lolomis, Outer World, Jeff Parker, Ava Mendoza, Kassie Krut, Philip Jeck, Serpent Column. Here's a recommendation: Go to a show with...
