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Family guy next up I swear

Profiled Mei Semones in advance of her excellent new album 'Animaru' thefader.com/2025/04/28/mei…

Had a jovial, sprawling, and highly insightful conversation with Bill Orcutt and his Guitar Quartet for Stereogum. I think the band’s new live record, out today on Hausu Mountain, captures their jammy, rattly, Steve Rech-esque magic at its finest! stereogum.com/2306079/bill-o…

Wrote about Gérard Grisey and the moon landing for my brand new column

alert: raphael mentioned in quavo cover story byline flaunt.com/post/quavo-can…

NEW: I obtained two internal Google reports that indicate the company has little control over Project Nimbus, its contract with the Israeli gov/military, and is largely in the dark about how it's being used.

Slugs

for my new column, I wrote about how the biggest AI song in the world (34+ million streams, #1 on Spotify viral chart) is themed after an infamous gay porno, and a possible future where people crave the low-stakes inferiority of AI slop over actual music pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-b…

got to talk with the best rapper for the best blog 🪡🪡🪡 passionweiss.com/2025/05/15/bil…

Have you ever brought a first date to an ambient show at a funeral home? In Raphael Helfand's latest instalment of Apollo Frequencies, he experiences Psychedelic Sangha’s Bardo Bath at a funeral home in Greenpoint with a new partner-in-drone. thefader.com/2025/05/21/psy…

Ahead of Game 4 tonight, I wrote a bit about the wave of Knicks fandom in New York (good), amidst a cultural decline of New York basketball in the areas that make it "the Hoops Mecca" (not so good) for The FADER thefader.com/2025/05/27/kni…

5 years youtu.be/q5ZgEtgxxg0?si…

This statement from the IDF about last night's massacre was also distributed to journalists. But in the version sent to reporters, it includes an off the record section that acknowledges the IDF did fire "to prevent several suspects from approaching the troops," which matches

If Your Ex Can Trigger U Then That Means They Still In Your System!!!

Doechii is cool but anxiety has to be one of the worst songs of all time

Last week, Cuomo held a big rally with top unions to talk about raising the minimum wage to $20. Afterward I asked some union members why they were there themselves: “I came because we have dues we have to pay: if we don’t come, we get docked $500,” one said. “I got no choice"

always a pleasure to write about my favorite guy thefader.com/2025/06/03/sco…

picks are kinda mid (blaketheman cleary only in there bc track title, how is right above it the wayne your fav wayne track, jadakiss cool tho obviously) but he's still my goat. 1000 clout points to vvalden

Just saw a white guy at Myrtle/broadway in a shirt that said melanin w/ a bunch of color strips of skin tones under it

profiled the best band going right now Hotline TNT ❤️‍🔥 really proud of this one! thefader.com/2025/06/17/hot…