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!
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.”
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.”
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.
Songs of the Week 03/15/2024
New Peter Gabriel! New St. Vincent! New IDLES! New Chelsea Wolfe! New TV on the Radio…. has not released since 2015!
Songs of the week 03/01/2024
This Week: I do a 180° on AI and finally profess my love for the Beatles, which surely isn’t related, right?
Songs of the Week 02/02/2024
Another batch of songs from November because I’m so blocked up from that hiatus.
Songs of the WEEK ANNUAL REVIEW 2023
I didn’t see light for days, couldn’t feel the first Christmas snowflakes land on my tongue, but it was all worth it—all worth bringing you this year’s annual review on January 10th, 2024. You’re welcome, Idaho.
Movie of the Week 10/13/2023 (coming to you from 10/20/2023)
With Movie of the Week and its supplementary media, Shakey Graves has created a unique nook of exploration and individual experience in the information age—an adventure that’s special because it’s unmapped. That’s why I spent seven cumulative hours cataloguing every track within the Movie Machine for one, tell-all compilation post. Just what he was going for, right?
August in Review | Songs of the Week 08/25/2023
Me when I have to write under the restrictions I specifically put into place to make writing easier:
Songs of the Week Annual Review 2022 (Because Someone Needs To Keep Spotify Honest)
I figured now was as good an opportunity as any to enter my own dark horse into the streaming music recap race—a real homegrown replay/wrapped situation. So, as 2022 comes to a close (four days into 2023), let's take a look back at the music that defined my year, and that probably didn't define yours, but here you are, reading about it. Don't think about it too much.