Thanks to the Musicscope podcast for inviting me to go deep on Q and Not U lore

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I like your lyric better!

I am breathing water / I am walking concrete

(I didn’t write that lyric; thanks for listening)

‘Going where the work needs to go’ A walking interview with Analog Tara.

Took a walk with ANALOG TARA and learned so much about the teachings of Pauline Oliveros, the boundaries between rhythm and noise, the long path of electronic musicking and more

Tara’s fabulous new recording, Life of the Mother, is out today

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How I became a man A review of the Crazy Spirit reunion at Market Hotel.

I drove to NYC to catch the CRAZY SPIRIT reunion and had the kind of transformative experience that I didn’t expect

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‘Sometimes you need to keep a wound open’ An interview with Daniel Stewart of Station Model Violence.

New album from STATION MODEL VIOLENCE is straight-up inspiring and so was this correspondence with the great punk mind Daniel Stewart

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Flirtations with humanity A record to listen to on Sunday, April 12, 2026.

Introducing a new Sunday morning mini-column for the paid subscribers of THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE

Thank you for making this work happen xo xo

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One question interview with Katie Alice Greer Priests earned their rep as one of the most eruptive D.C.

I asked KATIE ALICE GREER about music as place-channeling and her answer really floored me

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Somewhere beyond human measure and control A walking interview with Mac Kennedy of Poison Ruïn.

I went on a walk with Mac Kennedy of POISON RUÏN in the rain, through the mud, into the future

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I was v into it. Shoes got wrecked

Thank you so much !

Props to Daniel

This is tremendous

Ha excellent Thank you

Who are you going down in history with? THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE’s quarterly review of significant recordings

Proof of listening, proof of life: I reviewed 100 recordings for THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE

Thank you for reading, for subscribing, for telling a friend

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‘We gotta get our forces together’ An interview with cellist and composer Janel Leppin

Honored by the laughs-tears-joys-fears that cellist JANEL LEPPIN shared in this interview which felt as broad as her music

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🙏🏻🎵

When the shoegaze revival comes home A review of Guttered at Rhizome.

I saw GUTTERED on Saturday night and felt gratitude for our scene and hope for the young

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At the movies with Black Eyes My comrades invited me to see ‘Undertone.’ Here’s what we heard.

Didn’t intend for this to become movie week with my newsletter but my friends in BLACK EYES invited me to see ‘Undertone,’ a horror movie about sounds (and podcasts)

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Right on! Maybe its moment is ahead

Write that piece pls

Snub concussion How Nala Sinephro’s original score transformed the ‘The Smashing Machine’

If the best thing about awards season is arguing for the snubbed, here’s one last shout for NALA SINEPHRO’s exquisite soundtrack to ‘The Smashing Machine’

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Ok, thanks. The “would you stay?” phrasing in your posts made me feel like you were putting the onus on the journalists. They’re certainly listening to this discourse more closely than management, and I’m feeling hyper protective of everyone who has chosen to stay and fight. Thanks for your reply

I understand we’re all grieving the Post in different ways but are you saying it should be easy for everyone to quit? We all know there aren’t 799 “attractive job offers from excellent outlets” out there. Let’s not shame our colleagues for staying and trying to save this thing

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Sorry to tack a PSA/plea to the universe onto this blurt, but after serving as The Washington Post’s pop music critic for more than 16 years, I’m continuing my work here:

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Massive gratitude xoxo

Well put/thx for reading!

Every grown-up gets a trophy You, an adult, don’t have to like the music of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

You, an adult, don’t have to like the music of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

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🙏🏻🎵

Glad this story is being told but I’m extremely disappointed that it fails to mention that The Washington Post has laid off nearly all of its arts critics

A decades-deep legacy of arts coverage has been destroyed here and it hurts our city and our world

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One question interview with Shining Sea When a friend told me Adam Nathanson was playing in a new group that sounded “more out there” than his previous hardcore outfits, I reflexively started imagining “out there” as a place.

I asked the NYHC lifers in SHINING SEA about their most vivid New York noise memories and was transported by their answers

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