I Never Thought I'd Hear Steve Albini's Fugazi Album
Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, are now available officially for the first time. Had to take a...
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...
