It’s been a month of doing see/saw, and this feels like my favorite version of my life as a writer. It’s the most energized I’ve felt about this work in some time. If you’ve ever appreciated anything I’ve done before, tap in! I’m building something. see-saw.fun

Lots of sick new records out today but the biggest surprise of them is the first song on the new Owen record sounding like the intro to an Iron Maiden epic. owenmusic.bandcamp.com/track/a-reckon…

...Global Tetrahedron was the name of the evil villain in 'Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source'

so this company might be real, but... who owns it and who would name it Global Tetrahedron?

i sense... a game afoot

Quit your job and listen to us talk instead. Here's your life advice.

The self-proclaimed Statler & Waldorf of Violent Treatment, David Anthony, returned for some much-needed real talk on the state of adjace-core in hardcore. For the appreciators of nuance, skepticism, and 'not for me' prefaces.

Have we hit the upper level of heavy in hardcore? Do we care? More at 11.

Fun episode with the homie David Anthony in which we talk about two coins of hardcore adjace

.@EkkoAstral released their debut album pink balloons today and I reviewed it for Pitchfork. It's noisy, cheeky, unstoppable DC punk that picks up where Black Eyes and Priests left off, which is another way of saying I can't stop listening to it 🎈 pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

no one:

millionaires: “AI is here to stay, there’s no way we can stop it while we are actively forcing it down everyone’s throats. It will help humanity, it isn’t here just to help the rich get richer… anyway I have some layoffs I’d like to announce.”

it's really weird as a journalist googling an article you wrote a couple years ago and getting served an AI summary of your writing instead of the actual link

executives in every creative industry yearn so badly to figure out a way to sell shows or books or movies without involving any of the people who actually make them lol

honestly completely deranged to see the degree the US will back a rogue state that’s not only committing genocide but actively trying to drag it into a wider regional war

This is not a time for grievances and fights. A crisis has been brewing in pitchers' elbows for decades. The only way to address it is if players and MLB work together. Otherwise, the game will continue to suffer.

My story, free and unlocked, at ESPN: espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…

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starting a punk newsletter and hearing a great new LP in the same week is just an indescribable feeling ✨

freelancing has been fun, but I know deep down when I’m writing about my favorite new punk/weird/heavy rock records, those words will live here:

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CEOs getting pay increases because of 'market compensation study' while claiming a business is in the red is the most nefarious thing. So infuriating that this happens so often and boards just go along with it. wbez.org/stories/chicag…

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