I went to the 23rd Annual Coachella Influencer's Gala & Nostalgia Symposium & all I got was this 4,000 word hallucination about the slow degradation of pop culture, the worship of spectacle & our ghost mall future of infinite, frictionless entertainment.

theringer.com/music/2024/4/1…

so good i had to buy marvin’s book immediately after listening 😳

Raving Disco Breaks Vol. II - Rock The House—Sides A & B—is available on tape, digital download and free streaming (on SoundCloud) today 🪨🥏🎸🥁🎧 linktr.ee/erisdrew T4T LUV NRG’s 16th release 🤗

For anyone who has been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun, the news is that  I’ve had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial. A 🧵…

No Tags 12 is out on all your podcast apps! we talk to (man/man like) about the one and only Vybz Kartel – his innovation, his incarceration, and why he's still the king of 21st century dancehall.

listen, follow, subscribe, msg us, read the transcript > notags.lnk.to/podcast

the Montaigne reference... i thought we all knew that was illegal

dance music discourse sent wild by a single article shows how poorly developed it is as a critical culture. little conception of how dance music as form has been shaped by finance capital in relation to other forms (art, literature, cinema).

in case it isn't clear, i want to read more responses to that baffler article from people who are actually in the scene doing political things, and more writing from those people generally!

a good tip for freelancers is starting your invoice numbering very high. your first job is not '001' or '1' but instead '9083'. clients will respect this.

so anyway, it made me want to make a mixtape of the sort of thing I like to hear in a club in 2024, and here it is: New Rap, RnB, Afrobeats, Bashment & Amapiano... havent done one of these for a minute and found that I loved it ! youtu.be/Rlz9_ClvIQU

Another episode of #IfISpeak is in the world! This week, me and Moya Lothian-McLean discuss what it takes to create a sense of hope, and mull over whether a listener should end her marriage.

Tune in on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! Also, it really

love this. totally-tropical carbonated _weightless_
kinteal.bandcamp.com/album/ecosystem

remembering the 2022 mount kimbie runaway promotional balls incident

didn't post this last week because the timeline horror was so extreme, but i should mention that i reviewed the Logic100 debut album for Pitchfork, and found very little to love.
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…