Evan Rytlewski
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Writer. Contributor @Pitchfork . Alum @RadioMilwaukee , @WMSE , @ShepherdExpress . Bylines @NPR @TheAVClub @WashingtonPost @Spin @Stereogum @PasteMagazine . (he/him)
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A restaurant called Somebody Else’s House that captures the weirdness of eating at a friend’s house as a kid. The waitress asks you to pray and every meal comes with a glass of milk.
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Four Seasons Total Landscaping is the most 30 Rock joke of the entire election cycle
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The original Twister (1996) is such an absolute riches of character actors that just when you think, "ok, I've seen them all, there have been so many," this guy shows up at the end for like one shot
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The new Travis Scott sounds amazing, it's as exquisitely curated as ever, but the vacuous emptiness at its core where a real person should be is now so glaring it's almost unnerving. He creates these massive, expensive canvases and uses them to express literally nothing
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Enjoy this survellience video of a guy walking into Miller Park, commandeering a tractor and then carving his name in the field with it
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Dexter is the show that taught me the importance of bailing on TV shows once they get bad. I stuck this one out to the bitter end. It may be the only show that actively makes me wish I had all those hours back.
On this day 13 years ago, ‘Dexter’ premiered on TV. After early seasons received massive acclaim, its series finale was universally panned, receiving an F grade by the AV Club.
So… what TV show beats ‘Dexter’ for the worst ending ever?
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The location that CBS 58 has framed as “controversial” for high school students to visit is…
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the Milwaukee Public Library
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No cheating: guess the “controversial” photoshoot location
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Talk to many TV anchors and they will quietly concede that their crime coverage creates a false perception of the city. But it’s truly rare to see anti-city bias this blunt (this delusional? deranged?) work its way into non-crime coverage. What world was this report filed from?
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Remembering Young Dolph as a great rapper and a proud father.
Here he is talking about all the extra time he got with his kids during quarantine and hanging out in his daughter's play castle. Absolutely beautiful.
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Wisconsin has same day voter registration
Wisconsin has same day voter registration
Wisconsin has same day voter registration
Wisconsin has same day voter registration
Wisconsin has same day voter registration
Wisconsin has same day voter registration
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Just discovered that Wizkid has the friendliest, most good-natured fan hive on the internet. That checks out tbh but you love to see it 👋
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First time I’ve ever seen a headliner start their set ~during~ the opener. RXKNephew crashed the stage during the hardcore band opening for him last night and took it from there
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It’s honestly eerie, how Scott manages to avoid conveying any actual thoughts, opinions, insights, or even really basic humanity. There’s no worldview in a Scott verse, no perspective or lived experience. Every verse is an empty stream of predictive text.
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New Wilco, Blonde Redhead and Animal Collective albums out today
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for my money this was the most 1999 album of 1999, a formative work of Napster-era post-genre idealism
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I’m at an Oktoberfest and the musician is covering “Seven Nation Army” in the style of Santana’s “Smooth” (!?!)
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Very notable: A.V. Club’s explicit promise to scrub AI-generated content in an attempt to regain reader trust 👀
Paste Media's apparent attempt to rehab The A.V. Club is kind of wild. Hoping for the best.
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Anyway, whenever the internet debates the possibility of an AI pop star, I always think, we already have one, basically: Travis Scott. Same mercenary focus on music as a pleasure center code sequence, with no moral or human center to distract from that pursuit
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Scott has three defining qualities
1. his great ear
2. his complete lack of personality
3. (and I'm sorry but this is a running theme) his chilling disregard for his fans' safety
And there are moments when these qualities play off each other in uncanny, unsettling ways
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A great scene in Twister is where Bill Paxton's fiance listens to the gang talk about tornados at dinner for minutes, F2s, F3s, F4s, all that, and then she asks "is there an F5?" and the room gets silent and everybody's like "we don't talk about that, that's inappropriate"
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Today the Milwaukee Bucks and Milwaukee Brewers became the first major league teams in decades—or longer?—to call off games for social justice. Never let it be said that this city doesn’t fucking lead.
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And here’s the video of Kyle Rittenhouse speaking about shooting strangers at a CVS. “Bro I wish I had my (expletive) AR. l'd start shooting rounds at them."
Clear evidence of his intentions to commit violence, 15 days before he did shoot and kill two people.
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Amazing: Kenosha sheriff asked if he sees a problem with what video of Jacob Blake shooting shows. Says he can't answer b/c he hasn't seen video.
"Really??" reporter asks
"I'm sticking with that."
"Is it a problem, that you haven't seen the video?"
He stops taking questions.
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Vampire Weekend makes sense to me as an audacious niche thing, but I just can't wrap my head around so many adults in 2024 being into that infantilized, Paddington Bear aesthetic.
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Just a reminder if you haven't heard it yet, but "Made in Lagos" already feels like a classic album, a record that people people will be listening to and celebrating decades from now. This tour is probably gonna be pretty special
Nigerian singer Wizkid has announced a North American tour in support of his album 'Made in Lagos.'
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WizKid's Made In Lagos is easily one of the best LPs of the last few years (and maybe the best pop album since Rihanna's Anti?) so it's been fantastic watching it have such a long life
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What Milwaukee videos lack in budget they make up for with ingenuity
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But how did Wisconsin voters respond to the debate? We asked undecided voters at a watch party here, at the Walgreens on Brady
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What happened in Kenosha last night is so much more horrifying than the headlines are capturing. A white militia member was filmed shooting multiple protesters, killing at least one of them.
And then the police just let him walk away without arresting him.
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Impossible to overstate the pre-internet importance of these Beastie Boys albums. They were the '90s version of Wikipedia, gateways into entire worlds of music, pop culture, junk culture, spirituality, DIY ideals, a closet of pre-tested identities. There's no modern equivalent
Beastie Boys released their brilliant fourth album, Ill Communication, 30 years ago today. To celebrate, a new deluxe reissue is on the way →
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Baseball is where you follow a team for six months to see if they win the chance to compete in a 2 p.m. playoff game broadcast on a workday on a channel you don’t receive
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Scott never addresses the Astroworld tragedy on the album, because he never addresses anything, but suggestions of a crowd crush are all over this song anyway. I just don't think he cares or even really thinks about much at all. Just callous emptiness.
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I’ve just always admired how little educational value was in this
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Black Keys agnostic comment, but this seems to be happening a lot more lately? Like the live music market is so profitable right now, and so many big new venues have calendars to fill, that it feels like promoters keep trying to stretch their doubles into triples
The Black Keys just canceled their entire North American arena tour for this fall due to extremely poor sales (likely due to exorbitantly priced tickets — most markets were $100+ just to get in the building).
Whoever thought booking this band in arenas in 2024 should be fired.
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After Olivia Rodrigo blew up almost overnight she did a club tour even though she had the draw to play venues 8x the size. You can always tell when an artists' team is actually looking out for them.
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It doesn’t get any worse
this is a safe space so no arguing — what’s a song you despise to a comical degree? no holiday music or “anything by so-and-so” or “all music of this genre”, only real replies. mine is “bitter sweet symphony” by the verve bc i think the orchestral part is repetitive and tacky
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Waxahatchee is playing a new song on this tour that’s quite possibly tops anything on the last two albums. It’s almost hard to process, how much gold she’s mined from this muse
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The Door County fish boil, where they set a cauldron of fish and potatoes on fire for an audience before serving it, has gotta be one of the best regional food traditions
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One interesting measure of a band's greatness is what I call The Strokes Test: Would people still care about this band if their best album did not exist. It's surprising how many artists do not pass this test.
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Some really sad news: Hank the Dog has died.
Legendary dog, a great moment for Milwaukee, I'll never forget the news stories and the memorabilia. Sending love to his owners. Here's hoping the Brewers keep his memory alive deep into October.
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This is damning.
Prosecutors can likely show Rittenhouse saw online militia posts that promised violence against protesters that night. Now they can also show he had intent to kill.
Hard to claim you are standing your ground when the violence was expected and premeditated.
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In a newly discovered video, Kyle Rittenhouse threatened to shoot lawful strangers at a CVS 15 days before he murdered two unarmed protesters with an AR-15.
"Bro I wish I had my (expletive) AR. l'd start shooting rounds at them."
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Very weird and dispiriting but also kind of beautiful that Okkervil River is now basically a lost band that some new generation gets to discover
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I once read about how phishing emails are supposed to be look suspicious, because having typos and bad grammar and all that helps weed out all but the most gullible marks.
But still I’m not sure if that explains this.
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You have to replace one lead performance in a Scorsese movie with Adam Sandler. Which one are you choosing? I’m going Shudder Island.
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shout out to all the Wizkid fans who corrected this tweet, saying "actually we can be pretty vicious, we were just being friendly in this particular instance." I respect the honesty
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MGMT fails The Strokes Test so bad it could be called The MGMT Test
One interesting measure of a band's greatness is what I call The Strokes Test: Would people still care about this band if their best album did not exist. It's surprising how many artists do not pass this test.
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“Defend the sanctity of Space Jam” Twitter is dunking on this but it’s true. Looney Tunes were created to plug songs owned by Warner publishing, then as time went on plugged movies from Warner Studios. Sorry but from day one these cartoons were all about Warner IP
To everybody complaining that the new Space Jam promotes other Warner properties: That’s been Looney Tunes’ M.O. since the earliest cartoons. Humphrey Bogart was literally a reoccurring character back in the day
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Vampire Weekend might be my ultimate "glad you all love this, by virtue of my taste and demographics it should be my thing, too, but I don't get or enjoy this at all" band (we all have one)
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There was no middle ground with Chance The Rapper. Like a switch flipped and he went from rap-saving messiah to the dorkiest most deserving dork the internet ever clowned on in a heartbeat, absolute whiplash, he never knew what hit him.
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To everybody complaining that the new Space Jam promotes other Warner properties: That’s been Looney Tunes’ M.O. since the earliest cartoons. Humphrey Bogart was literally a reoccurring character back in the day
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Had the pleasure of reviewing my favorite album of the year so far,
@Tinashe
's second consecutive no-skips triumph
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If Kenosha sheriff's comments are true -- and they clearly cannot be, even though he doubled down -- then he is the one person in this country who has not yet seen video of the Jacob Blake shooting.
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Rittenhouse's attorney is grinning as the judge continually cuts down every argument the prosecutors are making about why key evidence about Rittenhouse's character, affiliations and gun ownership should be admitted.
The judge is incredibly sympathetic to Rittenhouse.
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A modern classic, maybe even in the running for one to the 10 best albums of the 2020s so far (?)
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Some context for non-Milwaukeeans: Walgreens on Brady is a longtime fascination of Milwaukee online circles because it's notoriously chaotic, so much so that it almost feels like somebody must have pranked Fox News into filming a segment there of all places
Fox News went to Walgreens on Brady(!) to ask people for opinions for the opening roll-in segment in the GOP debate.
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Also a very gentle reminder that "I never liked his music anyway" is an unhelpful response to stories like this. It redirects the conversation away from the abuse and toward the art, reinforcing the notion that artistic merit is somehow relevant here. It isn't.
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Fall Out Boy is the rare band with both insufferable theater kid and insufferable jock energy, truly noxious combination
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The second track rule: the second track is statistically the most likely to be the best on any album
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For somebody to write this insightfully about this much music this quickly, it's unreal. I am in absolute awe of how he does this week after week
Wrote about The Tortured Poets Department for Stereogum, a website that thankfully does not affix numerical grades to its album reviews:
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R.E.M. had been a band for 14 years when "Unseen Power of a Picket Fence" dropped. That'd be like if Wet Leg released a song today mythologizing Tame Impala
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The NBC news team is as unhappy that Megyn Kelly is on their panel as you are
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Thinking about how cruel it is that Dolores O'Riordan died just before Cranberries got an overdue cultural and critical reappraisal. They’d be major headliners now if they were still around.
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29 years ago this morning, thousands of people unwrapped copies of Live’s Throwing Copper
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Are we ready for a conversation about when St. Vincent peaked? Because I’m gonna say Strange Mercy — a pretty long time ago tbh
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@mirandareinert
the bios on Apple Music are often worthless and lazy, but sometimes I'm surprised by how good the writeups for individual albums can be? Like they're clearly written by actual writers who have engaged quite a bit with the music. I wish they'd credit them
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Remember when all of indie rock's biggest acts released momentum-stopping albums all at once
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An alternate history where Okkervil River arrive and peak a few years later, become darlings of the '10s stomp and clap folk boom, and are still mammothly popular in 2024, just not with anybody you know
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This John Mayer artwork has such specificity that it looks like it must be an exact recreation of another album cover but somehow it’s not
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Rittenhouse has claimed self-defense. But the video undercuts that claim with more evidence of Rittenhouse’s eagerness to kill and misunderstanding of when deadly force is justified.
Rittenhouse was in unlawful possession of an AR at the protests.
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Kenosha News has a key detail that the Journal Sentinel left out of its reporting: Rittenhouse wanted to shoot some men outside of CVS because he thought they had shoplifted.
15 days later, he shot three protesters.
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Kenosha mayor asked about calls for Kenosha's police chief and sheriff to resign, and if he thinks they should.
He says no.
Press conference ends. Tonally this was a lot less dense than the two before it, but offered very few reassurances about state of policing in Kenosha.
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1. Unauthorized shows are the best part of SXSW
2. Are you monsters?
3. Isn't "Not like the rest of Texas" supposed to be Austin's thing?
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@HaroldBingo
I still think there's time/room for GoldLink to walk this back and people will forget about it. But man if he doubles down on this... biggest self-imposed L I've seen a rapper take on social media in a long, long, long time. Hard to watch.
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Adrienne Lenker singing about putting the family dog down here a meandering, hookless track, who wants that. There are so many more earned, enjoyable ways to feel something.
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No browser is powerful enough to make it through a 250 entry Rolling Stone list without crashing or reloading
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@moderndaybc
oh yeah for sure. Wizkid's voice is like Jeremih levels of pleasure center for me, but it helps to break it up and give me more space to appreciate it
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Still thinking about how we made an American Idol-caliber cover of “Fast Car” one of the biggest songs in the world last year
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