Pinned Tweet
I wrote about Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 and the twilight of freakdom
The Sunday Review ☀️ Thinking Fellers Union Local 282's Strangers From the Universe
pitchfork.visitlink.me/JR21_…
club music is so fucking class btw
"The physicality of the sound is a radical act against atomization, and the powers that be who want us to stay home and watch Netflix."
hearingthings.co/let-jacques…
beautiful piece. began my own JB journey earlier this year and can think of no better guide for continuing it than @simontorracinta
as usual, had a wonderful time shooting the shit about music with @jacquesgreene for this hearingthings.co/let-jacques…
not even trying to be an ally here or whatever, but I think every single big McMurtry fan I know personally is a woman. the man wrote Terms of Endearment!
new music out today, made in deep collaboration my friends T Man and Winston
a little something different
tmanbrooklyn1987.bandcamp.co…
wrote about an album you may know pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
completely mindblowing Tyondai Braxton show at Public Records last night. never heard anyone use the detail of that system to remotely the same effect he did. felt like a cousin of the recent Autechre shows, but sort of loopy and freewheeling, almost hippyish, instead of austere
for the half dozen other Acetone fans on here: RHCP's "Porcelain" sounds so much like them I feel like they must have been ripping them off on purpose. or was it just something in the late-’90s LA air? youtube.com/watch?v=j0tHXHcq…
Andy Cush retweeted
For WORD MOUTH, I wrote about Nirosta Steel, Late Fame, and "the spirit of revival," per @nplusonemag.
wordmouth.substack.com/p/lat…
not that I expect anyone else to be following along, but I see my last three retrospective pieces for Pitchfork—on Scritti Politti, “Owner of a Lonely Heart,” and now Art of Noise—as sort of a loose triptych about the Fairlight CMI, new pop, Trevor Horn, etc etc
for the Pitchfork Sunday Review, I wrote about Art of Noise's IN VISIBLE SILENCE, an amazing album whose reputation has still not fully recovered from the beating it took in the press 40 years ago pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
once people realize they can instruct the computer bassist to play the root, and also sometimes the other notes in the chord, there's no telling what sorts of new musical possibilities will be unlocked
Once musicians realize they can prompt things like "140 BPM, F minor, 4-bar bass phrase. Build the rhythm around a half-time kick/snare groove. Keep F as the tonal anchor but use Ab, C, Eb and occasional chromatic approach notes for tension" more musicians will start using AI. The only reason why AI music sounds generic is because most people playing with these models don't know anything about music. It only makes those knowledgeable more capable.
wrote a little something about the best music magazine for 30 years running totei.com/story/tape-op-maki…
as good a reason as any to revisit me on Larry bookforum.com/print/3204/inf…
i wrote about Thomas Bernhard and the joy of not listening to music hearingthings.co/stop-listen…
interviewed one of the best bands of all time hearingthings.co/horse-lords…
I wrote about the legendary Greenwich Village luthier Rick Kelly, who builds guitars out of wood he salvages from old buildings under demolition or renovation around downtown Manhattan totei.com/story/rick-kelly-c…
i wrote a little something about playing in the Glenn Branca symphony for 100 guitars, one of the most profoundly moving experiences of music i've ever had hearingthings.co/a-symphony-…
Andy Cush retweeted
A Symphony for 100 Electric Guitars hearingthings.co/a-symphony-…
Pieces like this are exactly why I ponied up for a subscription to @hearingthingsco
Bravo yall


















