Writing, editing, listening. Formerly at AltPress, occasionally at SPIN.

Western Pennsylvania
Joined February 2009
If you haven’t started collecting records yet, DON’T.
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SoCal! Head over to Stories in Echo Park tonight at 7:30 where Paul Barker, Andy Wombwell, Judy Pokonosky and I will be discussing the zeitgeist surrounding Ministry’s 1988 game-changer, THE LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY and my book in Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series
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Dear Musicians With Sampling Gear: Please commit this to your hard drives. You will be needing it next year for something, I swear…
Vance: You know something Donald Trump will never do? Donald Trump will never go out there and say that his fellow citizens should be censored or silenced for disagreeing with them.
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jason pettigrew retweeted
Can someone explain to me why this is not on the front page of every newspaper?
Trump is now proposing two of the largest-ever federal arrests of people living in America, including U.S. citizens, if he's re-elected axios.com/newsletters/axios-…
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PhilFree repping my fave band in life. Thank you, you prince…
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Martin Mull and Flo & Eddie on PBS’ SOUNDSTAGE. I saw this when I was a kid and loved it. Extra points if you recognize Greg Hawkes from the Cars playing sax in Mull’s band… m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfu-1B…
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Halftime report: 6 months in, what’s the state of music in 2024?
59%Surprisingly great TBH
12%Dismal AF
29%Nobody cares, fucko
17 votes • Final results
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Love is a Cadillac, Death is a Ford youtu.be/mTEaI5HI7YU?si=l2hl…
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jason pettigrew retweeted
Pound this message into @nytimes' editors' heads daily.
I never would have thought it would have been possible that, in the event a behaviorally disordered criminal were to try to undo the American experiment, one of his most effective amplifiers would be the New York f*cking Times.
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Anybody else go grocery shopping, look at the price of something Iike a toothbrush or a box of Triscuits and say out loud, “Naah, fuck YOU”?
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Quadrilateral I was, now I warp like a smile…
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In keeping with house policy of only classical/ambient/jazz being played on Sunday, here’s Kevin Richard Martin’s dark ambient homage to Amy Winehouse. kevinrichardmartin.bandcamp.…
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Five-year-old running around steam tables at buffet restaurant perfectly imitating Bernard Sumner’s intro to “Temptation”
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Respect and gratitude to the memories of the women, men and service animals who gave their Iives in service to this country. #memorialday
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