Future Shock
What does a panel of "experts" think about the future of work?
We Might As Well Be Strangers
Weezer comes back with a strong collaboration.
Jim Carol New Year
With Life in Small Spaces, the upcoming album from Black Marble, the project's creator, Chris Stewart, taps into one of my semi-obsessions. The album's description on its Bandcamp page has further details on the clue we are given with the album title. It is an invitation
Chemicals Make You Small
The Second Coming Was a Moonrise by Hammock When I read that Hammock had collaborated with The Flaming Lips on their song “Chemicals Make You Small,” I was a bit shocked. Wayne Coyne and The Lips are brash, experimentally noisy, irreverent, sometimes goofy and often oversaturated. They seem to have
Six Flags White House
Kevin D. Williamson writes for The Dispatch about the spectacle of setting up a UFC match on the White House lawn. It does not matter whether you live in a trailer park or a brick ranch house or something more grand and getting grander, it is all the same: Tornado
Star Wars The Product
The debt Star Wars owes to its fans and commercial interests.
Don’t Panic
English Breakfast by Hoops Despite seemingly being designed by a corporation to be mostly inoffensive, sometimes to the point of banality or worse, Coldplay launched into the world consciousness hot, with “Don’t Panic,” the song in the pole position on their debut album Parachutes. Though I feel more generosity
Heart Still Beats
I’ve been on a post-punk x new wave kind of kick the last several days, after I learned Black Marble (who I blogged about last year) are going to be playing nearby in September. The algorithmn overlords recommended Castlebeat to me after the end of a listening sesh of
New Cans
Trying out some headphones I've been keeping an eye on.
A Show Of Respect
Whether marching for a Sikh holiday, visiting a Jewish children”s center or attending Divine Liturgy, I’ve never seen a politician put so much effort into respecting the faith traditions of others as Zohran Mamdani. New York is such a diverse city and you truly get the impression that