Throbbing Gristle, Trump, and The Modern Trickster | SOTW 11/15/2024
Plus: Belated Halloween from Throbbing Gristle and Siouxsie & The Banshees, unmasking Madonna’s shining moment of maturity, and even! more! Nausicaä!
Hozier: “Not Cringe, but Getting Cringe-er” | SOTW 11/01/2024
Plus: Something of a Brian Eno, Lou Reed, and David Bowie love triangle begins to coalesce, but I’m not about to put a label on it, bro.
Who Did “Heart It Races” Better? | SOTW 08/30/2024
Plus: going off the beaten path with Clairo and Lizzy McAlpine's new albums, going all-in on 70's cheese with Hot Chocolate, and dipping our dicks in the salsa dip with the Northern Boys...whatever that means.
Two Broody Albums From IDLES and St. Vincent | SOTW 05/31/2024
This Week: Exploring the similarities between “Big Time Nothing” and “POP POP POP,” plus weirdness from Dominique Guiot’s “La Danse Des Méduses” and Brian Eno’s “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More” and Chelsea Wolfe’s devastating “Flatlands.”
Nightwing: New Gnosis / Superheroes and Psychoanalysis
A fan comic written for the CGJIC’s talk on Comics, Mythology, and Jungian Psychology. I’m gonna miss Tom Taylor’s Nightwing!
AI and the Most Unwanted Song | SOTW 05/17/2024
Also this week: Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah’s “Lake Shore Drive,” Peter Gabriel covering Arcade Fire’s “My Body is a Cage,” Cocteau Twins’ famous “Carolyn’s Fingers,” and Blur’s underrated “Ambulance.”
The Tweakin Poets Department | SOTW 04/26/2024 (coming to you 05/03/2024)
Because the best poets aren’t too tortured to hit that yoinky sploinky in sepia.
Songs of the Week 04/05/2024
Hope you like 3/4, and 6/8 even more. Yea, that’s right, other time signatures exist, I just can’t tell them apart because I never learned to count.