I was tickled rosy to return to the Slate Culture Gabfest, this time as musical guest on their Super Secret Getaway live show. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Bonus Jimmy Durante content. I wrote for Slate about musicians who tour with their children. No Plan B score by Franz Nicolay. I wrote for the LA Review of Books on three recent books about the relationship between popular music and literature.
I wrote a polemic against graded record reviews for Watt. You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. I wrote an op-ed at Cash Music about the inevitable institutionalization of rock. I spoke to The Ledge podcast with two other contributors about our stories. Listen to the score here. Berlin DE , Ramones Museum Leipzig DE , Substanz Braunschweig DE , B58 Kiel DE , Schaubude Dortmund DE , Bierschinken Festival Landshut DE , Hahnspektakel Festival Freiburg DE , White Rabbit Dornbirn AUT , Anziehbar Oberstaufen DE , Glashaus Definitely gonna harass my new labelmate Noam for club-date support slots during festival season.
Preorder it now. EDIT: Punktastic is streaming both tracks here. Happy release day! Digital download in all the usual places and at Bandcamp. You can check out early reviews here.
Thanks to allโฆ. Hope you like it. At the end of each year, I like to make a collection of the music that soundtracked it for me: an audio yearbook. Noisey and Vice are running excerpts of my writing about my summer tour in Ukraine. Album art by Ariana Nicolay. To Us, The Beautiful! Marfa Lights 3. Bright White 5. Imperfect Rhyme 6. Open With The Wrestlers 8.
The Pilot Inside 9. Bring Me A Mirror Jerusalem Against Athens Your Body, And The Borderline Porta Fenestella. I mostly played guitar too. Robbins Jawbox, Burning Airlines produced. It took about six days to rehearse and record. It felt easy and we had a good time. I want to thank them for their hard work. I wish we were a real band that played together regularly. My last one took a lot longer.
