Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

Q&A on the people I trust—and why

+ Chit-Chat Check-In #78: Dolly

The wind keeps blowing me around

thinking of you

Watch now | On the road

Sanctuary

What We Need Is Here - Live Stream

My longest running bandmate, Jon Rauhouse, has been told he is no longer terminal with cancer.

HERE TIS!

I listened to all 27 discs and pulled out the highlights

2025-04-16, Miller Auditorium, Kalamazoo, MI

Sondheim, Desire and Slob Dylan

and some shiny bits I've gathered recently

A takeaway from the DNC

Rest easy, Michael Hurley

Thoughts on XLR8R and its unnoticed closure, plus a round-up of the latest electronic music news and a fresh crop of new track recommendations.

The balkanization of an already divided music internet, plus a round-up of the latest electronic music news and a fresh crop of new track recommendations.

Hello, from the other side

Hello Loners,

Why I can't let go of "Into The Wild", and why perhaps you can't, either.

All subscribers welcome

THE FIRST IN WHAT I HOPE WILL BE MANY SUCH INSIGHTS BEHIND A WIZARD’S CURTAIN

YOUR SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOME

Every day when I wake up, the first thing I do is turn over and make sure my cat is still there.

A good old fashioned ask me anything!

My first 24 hours

A recording from Dawes's live video

Behind Every Successful Woman are Two Men... Enough Said.

clearing up some confusion between victims, my thoughts on consensual sex with tampons, and Matthew Muckey's amended complaint about gender discrimination

I am posting this because people have asked me to. Emily Rose Marcus was born on December 10, 1969, in Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley. It was a forceps delivery, and she came out with bruises on her face, yet she lived her life as a woman who prized beauty—in fashion, her own sense of style, furniture, art. Following her beloved uncle Dr. William E. Bernstein, she chose a death with dignity, and died on January 31, 2023, in her apartment in Oakland, where she had lived since 2007, after more than two years fighting against a terminal diagnosis of appendiceal cancer she had received in September 2020. Our hearts are broken.

November 27, 1974

Listen to Roger Nichols's long-awaited "Second Arrangement" cassette

Asked about the title of their new album during a 2003 radio hit, messieurs Becker and Fagen find themselves talking about orgasms.

"Spiders, MAGA people and the creeping dread of corporate fascism."

"The universe doesn't do desperation."

Unpacking my 16 favorite LPs of the year—plus 30 more exceptionally good ones.

His singular new book Run the Song maps new modes of music criticism onto the daily practice of running

out tomorrow, but the paid substack freaks can listen today

I sing on this Illuminati Hotties track and we're touring together this spring

Six hours of hand-picked instrumental Christmas music.

Music for getting in the bath and feeling warm all over—in every sense.

The wonders of Winter Jazzfest in an age ablaze

More thoughts, some personal, about a heavyweight in my field

Good morning.

Today we’re listening to Theresa Wong, an American cellist and composer based in the San Francisco bay area.

On Weathervanes, death, love and listening like a mother

Henry, come on (down to Tennessee)

so far it doesn't hurt

Shades, Sex Workers and The Silver Ball