October 16 2023
My memoir, Earlier, came out this week. There is an excerpt of the book up at The New York Review and a chapter appears in the November 2023 issue of...
September 30 2023
A guest entry from the good and great Elvia Wilk, who is in charge of text until the next photograph down there: You’ve seen the biblical deluge in the...
September 12 2023
The “greatest ambient album of all time,” hitting bottom in LA with Elliott Smith, 9/11 at Elixir Juice, the five kinds of music I do not want you to send me, a Kompakt mix, and a little bit more
August 31 2023
We open today with rotating sandwiches.If you end up in one of those impossible discussions around some legacy of harm, there’s a good chance you’ll hear...
At The Tom Verlaine Book Sale
An afternoon waiting in line, with lines intersecting.
Claire Gapenne a.k.a. Terrine
the guts, they are back, and they are in France
August 10 2023
Le Cinema Club is showing Many Kirchheimer’s astonishing Free Time (for free) and today, August 10, is the last day you can watch it. Released in 2019, the...
August 7 2023
The Landscape Channel, vaporwave, and more
August 2 2023
Today is all treats, no paywall. If you like what you see and want to read the essays and interviews and other treat-based writing, consider chipping in. The...
July 4 2023
Merry fascism! When the Supreme Court is riding through town playing Dirty Harry, what can anyone do? What eases American pain? I find succor in back-of-the-...
June 28 2023
Subscribe nowAn Agnes Callard essay on travel has been recently mocked online, because that’s what the discourse is and does. Her point, to slightly reduce...
June 27 2023
Remember to order Earlier and let your web browser (not a submersible) take you into the deep sea. I almost drowned at the beach when I was a teen and that...
Dolby Atmos and your phone (June 23 2023)
This NYT piece on Dolby Atmos and spatial audio is fairly bullish on the technology, enough so that I am moved to share an outtake from the Harper’s piece on...
June 6 2023
Color cannot be divorced from light but the possibility that there might be value in the act of perceiving these two variables separately—or the idea of at...
May 17 2023
Kaleem Hawa, Tel Aviv, All Night Flight Records, Time Is Away, Syd Nathan, The Lot, Studs Terkel, Robert Caro, Ancient Plastix, Rachel Kushner, Sianne Ngai, Astrid Lorange, x or size, Liz Stip, more
May 12 2023
Instruments that don't exist, the history of English, Frank Ocean, the internet, Elliott Smith, e-scooters, Cecil Taylor, Ian Penman, more.
May 7 2023
Prince, dub, reduction, JD Twitch, Arthur Russell, Terry Riley, Éliane Radigue, Charles Curtis, unreleased songs, Timbaland, Dido, caroline, Cop City, Ariana Reines, Morgan Bassichis, and much more
Ryuichi Sakamoto 1952-2023
Ryuichi Sakamoto died at the age of 71 on March 28th, 2023, after fighting colorectal cancer for almost three years. For the past few days, I’ve felt anger,...
Friday March 31 2023
When a friend of mine said, “the newsletter is so short now,” I realized I had to clarify. The action comes after the paywall and everything before the fold...
Sunday March 12 2023
Bicycles, bakeries, Earlier, Busytown, Hammer & Hope, Lana Del Rey, Los Angeles, Ui, Radiohead, Kassel Jaeger, Balka Sound, Neal Schon