Andy Cush
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my first big piece for the site uses a leaked congressional email full of Taylor Swift puns to look at the deeply fucked state of concert ticketing, and the people who are invested in keeping it that way
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my roommate took out Beau Is Afraid from the Queens Public Library, where a librarian evidently tried out and rejected a few potential descriptors (“drama,” “depressing,” “3 hrs long,”) before settling on “comedy”
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Raymond Chandler owning all science fiction writers and casually inventing Google in a letter from 1953
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watched Blade Runner for the first time in many years last night and was surprised to learn it takes place in like a week
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I...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out.
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Rolling Stone list should prob just exclude jazz entirely, to avoid stuff like the preposterous and surely unintentional suggestion that (to choose one particularly funny example) Drake's 'Take Care' is better than every jazz record ever made besides Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew
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obviously Cormac McCarthy isn’t underrated per se but one thing that gets lost i thinj in all the focus on the fire-and-brimstone aspect of his work is how fucking funny the small-talk type dialogue is in all his books
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not obscure but I’ve always found it cool and spooky that both Grateful Dead and the Velvet Underground called themselves the Warlocks before changing names and arriving at dueling west/east coast versions of how rock’n’roll could respond to the drugs and upheaval of the late 60s
deadheads - what's the most obscure / interesting piece of dead lore you can hit me with right now, as someone who knows little about the band's history
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stating the obvious: the last two Low records are among the wildest & most beautiful albums of our era, on par with Talk Talk for a band deciding in its final chapter to find something new in the unknown. RIP to Mimi Parker, traveling the raw edge of experience until the end
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this exchange between Kim Thayil and Billy Corgan from SPIN's '94 Soundgarden cover story is very good
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what g/o is doing to deadspin right now is maybe the worst corporate mismanagement of a publication I’ve ever seen? taking one of the few lively, widely read, distinctly voices, and profitable sites left and actively working to destroy everything people like about it
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Late last month, I got a text from an editor asking if I’d be interested in interviewing all four original Talking Heads. We weren’t sure it was really going to happen but of course I said yes immediately. A few weeks later, we sat down to talk.
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I wrote a bit about the amazing new Cindy Lee album
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here’s a piece I’ve been wanting to write for years, about Sonny Sharrock’s masterpiece final album ‘Ask the Ages’ and the Black roots of noise guitar
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the coachella/urban outfitters suit reads like they're trying to convince the judge to put on a floppy hat and join them in the desert
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For this week’s Sunday Review, I wrote about a perfect album and the imperfect man who made it
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as a working musician who worships at the feet of joni mitchell and neil young, i still think it's worth remembering that the concerns they've raised with spotify are not the same as yours and mine
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billboard pwr bttm comeback article implies allegations are false based on the fact that an accuser was angry about the piece being published when the reporter contacted her and didn’t want to talk. that’s... certainly one way to interpret why she might feel that way!
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I could not be more pleased that my first p4k byline, after a decade-plus of reading daily, is a Sunday Review one of my favorite albums ever: The Rolling Stones’ Tattoo You, the last great record by the world’s greatest rock n roll band
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for this week’s Sunday Review, I went deep on Pink Floyd’s ‘Meddle,’ an assignment teenage me would be amazed to learn he’ll one day be paid to write
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the world is on fire but my passion for getting hammered and blasting free jazz records then putting on the twilight zone and passing out 10 mins into the first episode at about 1130pm remains undiminished
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Ran past an incredible sign on a building in Crown Heights this morning
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ryder ripps rebranding the CIA feels like the logical endpoint of accelerationism as an aesthetic posture in so much art/music/design/etc from the 2010s. maybe performative indulgence in the spoils of capitalism was not the most effective critique of the system after all....
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Hearing Things is a new independent music publication founded by Ryan Dombal, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Dylan Green, and me. Here’s a bit of what we’ve been working on:
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I performed my highest duty as a bartender the other night (introduced a patron who was having a rough night to the music of Jason Molina)
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10-15 years ago, my mom's stepdad—who has effectively been my grandpa my whole life—told me he wrote a song about skateboarding in the '60s that had some success as a single. over time i convinced myself i'd embellished this memory, because it seemed too cool to be real
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for Pitchfork, I wrote about the surprising rise of ambient music as a marketable commodity via chill playlists for studying/sleeping/watering your houseplants, the boogeyman of the ambient careerist hack, and what it all might mean for the music itself
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programming note: as of this week I'm no longer a contributing editor at Pitchfork. I've got nothing but love for everyone there, and I'm so proud to have contributed to the legacy of a publication I've read daily since I was a teen. what a dream. more soon on what's next for me.
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misuse of "bemused" is so common bc the wrong definition is more useful than the right one. we have many other words that mean "puzzled" but none that so precisely convey the wry, detached, ironic amusement that people often mean when they use it. it's a better word that way!
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if you’d have told teenage me that not only would Pavement be playing shows in 2023 but me and my bandmates would be opening one of them I would have told you to stop teasing me
dreams come tru baby 9/13 brooklyn steel
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My heart goes out to all of my brilliant colleagues who were laid off from Pitchfork today. Like the rest of my fellow contract workers on the masthead, I'm completely in the dark about whether I still have a position there. Don't know what else to say.
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for this week’s Pitchfork Sunday Review, I wrote about the Roches’ 1979 debut, a miracle of harmony and humor
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dude just walked in, bought a neat pour of the most expensive whiskey in the bar, didn’t drink a drop of it, didn’t tip, walked out
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cars should come loaded with a limited number of horn honks and to refill them you have go to the DMV and pay the govt money
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been a Pynch head since reading V. as a teen, read and loved all the shorter books over the yrs, but had been scared to surmount any of the truly big boys until picking up this one a few months ago for its 50th bday. finished last night. turns out it’s as good as everyone says.
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was Milo planning on firing Chadwick Moore at that bar before the DSA yelled at them
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an absolutely beautiful album whose legacy will only grow stronger with time
Remember way back in 2024 when you guys all went bananas over Cindy Lee for like three days
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for the Pitchfork Sunday Review, I wrote about Richard & Linda Thompson's 'I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight,' and also about love, fate, booze, bad omens, and the tyranny of having a job
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i wrote about "slowed + reverb," the DIY remixing phenomenon at the melancholy heart of YouTube, aka why the kids are listening to chopped and screwed Paul Anka
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Stereogum blowup seems to me a symptom of the fact that hardly anyone in indie music (and media) can afford to get by. Both sides just sound like they are tired of feeling fucked with and desperate for recognition of how hard they are working for so little reward. It sucks!
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the very polite mom from Cincinnati with the "NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF" sign was easily my favorite person I met
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I wrote this about Catalytic Sound, a group of experimental musicians who are envisioning—and actually building—a small-scale, artist-owned alternative to corporate streaming. inspiring stuff!
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Marvel: 'Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history'
Me:
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Here's Why Rob Ford Smoking Crack Cocaine on Video Is Good
On Smarm (It's Good)
The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable Is Good
Even for a Minute, Watching Hulk Hogan Have Sex in a Canopy Bed is Not Safe For Work but Watch it Anyway, Because It's Good
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One cabbie stuck in traffic is loving it. Asked if he approved of march: “of course! We have to be doing this.”
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wrote about a perfect album
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I wrote about the endlessly strange and wonderful new album by Absolutely Fuckin Enormous Thief on ye olde Pitchfork dotcom :)
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congrats to the Trump-loving internet bottom feeders for utterly playing yourselves on the issue of online privacy
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wrote about jaimie branch’s spectacular final LP here. fighting music!
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here’s something I wrote for Pitchfork on the earthly music of Pharoah Sanders
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got into it with a guy at the bar the other night who said sonny sharrock couldn’t play. came home and drunkenly/stonedly ordered this shirt. ✌️ 🎸
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spent some time with the Mdou Moctar crew in New York recently
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for my first Pitch piece, I wrote about teen pop stans and TikTok freaks disseminating bootlegged music on Spotify via podcasts.
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wrote this story about how Ryan Adams successfully lobbied editors to delete even the tiniest criticisms of him from their websites, including a concert review that didn't give enough attention to his huge metal jam
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i thought for a long time on the question "how could streaming services be changed to pay musicians more money?" and came up with a series of increasingly depressing answers
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presenting… 100 YEARS OF SOLID DUDES, a collection of new Garcia Peoples improvisations, recorded live in Vermont earlier this summer. 7 tracks, 100 minutes, all hand-picked local certified organic jams
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The way these guys pronounce "robot" on this Twilight Zone episode is legit the funniest thing I've ever heard
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Super Bowl has me reminiscing about my favorite detail from me and
@ashleyfeinberg
's Trump voicemails Gawker story
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...because, I learned after some googling, its chanted melody was interpolated on the Go! Team's "Huddle Formation," a song my friends and i listened to not-infrequently as teenagers. i had no idea about my familial connection to it until this weekend.
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with Pitchfork’s legacy of giving sustained attention to difficult or unusual music in mind, here’s my review of Cloudward, Mary Halvorson’s beguiling new album
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“Radiohead’s music is actually bad” is the most perfectly asinine music twitter opinion of all time, congrats to everyone involved
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there's a dentist office with a funny hippie-ish vibe right outside Woodstock called Transcend Dental. gotta love it when life feels exactly like a Thomas Pynchon novel.
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friend who used to live in Carrboro tells me these are the tracks Eizabeth Cotten had in mind when she wrote “Freight Train.” hallowed ground! GP plays Cat’s Cradle back room, right behind them, tonight
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for the last couple months,
@ratsonly
@ssodomsky
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so happy to live in a world where
@jiatolentino
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not sure what to do with this information but i just learned Raffi's 'Baby Beluga' (along w/ several other early albums) was engineered by a pre-fame Daniel Lanois
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just got vaxxed in a vacant former Best Buy at the foot of the mountains in light rain... I feel alive
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Robert Altman really did the world a service by making it feel cool, cinematic, and perhaps even a little rakishly sexy every time you have to feed your cat
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Sonny Sharrock on Miles Davis, 1993: "I think you'll play better if you know some of the funny things he did than if you know the licks he played."
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