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!
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 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 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.
Songs of the Week 12/01/2023
Exclusively heinous vibes this week. I’m actually doing great, by the way. Everything here sounds about how it looks, though.
Songs of the Week 11/10/2023
THE QUEEN HAS AWAKENED! It’s Mariah Carey season, baby! Said no one on Max Todd Dot Com ever. I will be INTOLERANT of that. No such rumpus here.
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?
Nighttime | Songs of the Week 10/06/2023
You’ve seen Songs of the Week 10/06/2023, yea? But what if it was goth?
SONGS OF THE WEEK 09/08/2023
Today, we’re playing whack-a-mole with goofy YouTuber synth while I try to talk about serious, contemplative songs. Or maybe it’s the other way around? I don’t know, how are the kids feeling? Is it still optimistic nihilism or are we back to pessimistic nihilism? Guess I have to just go for it. Okay, Squarespace… don’t you let me down…
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:
All Instrumentals, All the Time (but just this week) | Songs of the Week 06/09/2023
Late to the party, but can we talk about sobbing to the Prehistoric Planet theme? And the Walking with Dinosaurs theme? And the Across the Spider-Verse intro?
Selling Songs in One Sentence! | Songs of the Week 03/17/2023
Because I'm too cheap to skip a week without Wordpress stats dopamine.
Songs of the Week 03/10/2023
Would you hit the insidious, shrouded figure's hookah? Let me know in the comments! Like and subscribe! Smash that bell!
Songs of the Week 03/03/2023
in my lowercase indie girl era, bopping to Fiona Apple Feist boygenius at the King Soopers
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.
Songs of the Week 12/23/2022
This color scheme was entirely coincidental, by the way. Christmas finds a way.