Coffee grounds reading from mid-October, in my kitchen with my friend, Stephanie. It immediately looked to me like a woman walking through fire, or through parted seas, which is exactly how this season of my life felt. "With water proof matches and fireproof fabric." You can see the past coming into the present and the… Continue reading Fall 2024//New Roots
The seed for this winter 2023 mixtape was an earlier tape that I made for my colleague in music journalism and supreme sound selection, John Morrison, during the earliest days of fall last year. Within a day of my Lifetime Achievement article on David Thomas dropping on Bandcamp, news of Anton Fier's death became publicly… Continue reading Winter 2023//forces at work
I knew 2023 was going to be the greatest year of my life so far when I began to hear whispers of a Black Eyes reunion last fall. The band decided to put together an archival zine for the occasion and asked me to contribute a reflective essay about the era and why Black Eyes… Continue reading Reflective Essay in Black Eyes 20th Anniversary Archival Zine
Honored to be featured in the first issue of the first volume of the new music publication, Brilliant Corners, and excited to have a place to write things in the first person for a change! It's a very personal essay on one of my favorite albums, the Black Eyes S/T. It's also about trauma and… Continue reading Black Eyes Essay in Brilliant Corners 1.1
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