Sure Kafka is great but have you tried cancelling an Xfinity subscription in your mother's senior residence

¡Más novedades! Nueva mercancía firmada por object blue, Peder Mannerfelt, µ-Ziq, Xylitol, peverelist y muchos más.

📡 #LapsusRadio con Albert Salinas y Philip Sherburne
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A great review by Matthew Blackwell of a great album (for which, full disclosure, I contributed to the liner notes!)

Are there any music stores in Portland that buy gear? Got an Allen & Heath Xone 62 I'd like to unload, but would prefer not to go the pawn shop route, and don't have enough time for Reverb or eBay.

Thrilled to announce that Panoram’s Great Times is out today on Balmat! It’s a squirrelly one, in the best way.
panoram.bandcamp.com/album/great-ti…

I reviewed the Beth Gibbons album for Pitchfork and what a record it is too. 'Lives Outgrown may have taken agonizingly long to arrive, but it bears the mark of more than a decade well spent, a singular talent reborn in surprisingly spiky glory.' pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Loved reading Schnipper on the new Naemi album pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Whoever decided that the SoundCloud feed needed to look more like TikTok (and thus make scrolling about 10x as slow) has earned my undying enmity

*Chat Pile voice*

Today, I became the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden-Harris administration over its policies in Gaza. Here is my resignation letter:

Will never forget a line from my Volkshochschule book: “Ist Schumi der letzte Deutsch, der wirklich gut ist?”

A slightly shorter newsletter this week, owing to a last-minute caregiving trip back to the US, but the records—from Broadcast, Jim White and Marisa Anderson, @widsdomteethuk, et al.—are so good that they more than make up for the brevity tr.ee/wdBUPrN7QZ

If the Greeks were going to rewrite the myth of Sisyphus today they'd just have him try to check in online via the KLM website

Esta semana entrevistamos a Francisco Mejía aka Phran aka DJ Phidias; productor, DJ y uno de los mayores agitadores culturales que tenemos en nuestra escena.

📡 #LapsusRadio con Albert Salinas y Philip Sherburne
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I released Invisible Life 11 years ago. Download it free here: heladonegro.bandcamp.com/album/invisibl…

album art by Paul Coors

Saturday morning, kid playing in the garden, I'm assembling flat pack furniture and listening to Gastr del Sol -- new level of dad-life unlocked