The Latest
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New Music
Bus Crush – Sports and Leisure
The debut album from Bus Crush does 90s indie nostalgia well, and the melodies and lyrics make it one of the strongest releases of 2024
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new blog post
“[Hearing Things] will wrinkle your brain, make you laugh, piss you off, and move you to listen differently.”
Today is the launch day for Hearing Things, the new site from former Pitchforkers
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Don’t Miss a Thing
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Recent excellent creative nonfiction – October 15
Six fantastic pieces ranging from prison memoirs to a hilarious list of grievances
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New Book Review
Boyhood by J.M. Coetzee
Boyhood isn’t my favourite Coetzee book, but the honest and realistic view through the eyes of a ten-year-old reminded me of another book I love
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New Music
Click & Listen: October 11, 2024
A stash of killer tracks in this week’s Apple Music and Spotify playlists
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new blog post
“The crush-baiting thirst trap close friends grwm cringe you posted before your sister’s bachelorette in 2019? It’s “drinking water.””
Hannah Liuzzo of recent blog fave little bit writes an insightful piece for Talkhouse about AI’s role in creativity
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New Music
Kathy Katouzi – Afterparty / FLATL!NE / OHNO
Kathy Katouzi is on a tear. She’s got a distinct sound, three killer singles released in 2024 and an EP on the way.
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New Book Review
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Black Hole is a legendary graphic novel. It’s on every best-of list. I can see why, but it didn’t do anything for me
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new blog post
The Poet Speaks: Poetry Recommendations from Kate Arnold
An annotated list of some of Kate Arnold’s influences, with multimedia and other links to help schmoes like me
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New Music
Virgins – g l i s s / Nothing Hurt and Everything was Beautiful
Nothing Hurt and Everything Was Beautiful is the debut album from Virgins, though their sound is polished and distinct from other current shoegaze artists
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New Book Review
Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
Falling Back in Love with Being Human is gentle, warm and beautiful. I don’t know how it found me, but I’ll be forever grateful it did.
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new blog post
The Atlantic Did Me Dirty by Carrie M. Santo-Thomas
One of the sources in that piece in The Atlantic about how kids don’t read has some smart things to say about it.
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new blog post
“You Elites Are Screwing Things Up, Signed, We Elites.”
The Biblioracle has me thinking about favourite books from childhood.
