I Thought I Was Taking Medicine
This piece was first published in July of 2018 by Popula. In the year since, I’ve watched people in drug treatment facilities being moved from opioids to...
Redlining + Barry Biggs
Is CitiBike a solution or a problem? A report commissioned by New York Communities for Change and carried out by McGill’s School of Urban Planning, using...
Bicycles + Rats + 6G Network
A rat’s tail is a long bone surrounded by tendons and skin. It’s an extension of the vertebral column, both a heat-loss organ and a balancing tool. When a...
Ways of Not Seeing + Prince Rogers Nelson + David Lee Roth
This Ian Penman piece on Prince in the LRB—of the “hang a life’s thinking on two new books” genre—is enjoyable and bonkers and insanely wrong when it’s...
Poughkeepsie + New York
There is no money in rehab, not that you can hold. Exchanges, which are common, are conducted with meds that people have cheeked (Klonopin) or wiped onto the...
Caleb Wright + Dolly Parton
A nice man named Caleb Wright has created a web-based “music discovery tool” called Shfl. It randomizes titles pulled from a variety of lists, including...
Rosalía + Paul Jacobs
Rosalía works in a rough continuum of popular singers—Beyoncé, with the same concentrated charm, the kind that fights perception; Missy Elliot, for whom...
Aphex Twin + Ann Petry
The Aphex Twin review is up at Artforum. The short version of my experience: the Spotify playlist of what Aphex plays live has been more useful to me than...
Abby Klein + The Velvet Underground
Did that sealed Velvet Underground album come from within the blast radius? Entertain this enticing but unlikely scenario with us as we listen to a friend of...
Lykke Li + Rick Ross
This is the widest wanna-feel-old gap I’ve seen (or felt) in a minute. There are ten years between this cover of “Hustlin’” and today. Who seems most like a...
Aphex Twin + Stephen O'Malley
(Photograph by Philip Prolo) The Aphex Twin show on Thursday night contained a ridiculous amount of information, including a three minute slideshow of New...
2019 + 2018 + 2017 + 2015 + 2016
My 2019 Spotify list is up and running. It is embedded below for your pleasure. Pretty much any kind of list I’ve ever cobbled together can be found here on...
Lil Nas X + Billy Ray Cyrus
SFJ: Genre is a way to form a cohort, assemble a playlist, get your recording misfiled, use your peers for a leapfrog, and mark change over time. What is...
The Boyboy West Coast + Shoshana Zuboff
For The New Yorker, Alex Ross wrote about Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power and...
Eugene McDaniels + Q-Tip + Alan Dershowitz
Last week, an eBay user known as “reallylivinretro” tried to sell a sealed copy of the first Velvet Underground album for $3,999. This was at least the...
here we go
The Minutemen had it right. Put up a flyer. This date, this place. Play at the specified time. Anything you do is a beginning and two years later you will...