once you’ve been ejected from your fifth screening of marty supreme, make your way to metrograph this week for luc moullet’s cowboy psychogeography, A GIRL IS A GUN, which i wrote about for @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...
A Girl is a Gun
In 1966, in the throes of an uprising at the University of Strasbourg, a student named André Bertrand plastered the campus with a work of propaganda whose telltale clash of text and photo proclaimed t...
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December 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
once you’ve been ejected from your fifth screening of marty supreme, make your way to metrograph this week for luc moullet’s cowboy psychogeography, A GIRL IS A GUN, which i wrote about for @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...
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more sad news from the merry prankster family: just heard that springfield creamery proprietor (& organic yogurt innovator) chuck kesey has departed, only a few months after his wife sue. we spoke with them both about the dead's infamous 1972 benefit a few years ago. www.dead.net/deadcast/sun...
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
more sad news from the merry prankster family: just heard that springfield creamery proprietor (& organic yogurt innovator) chuck kesey has departed, only a few months after his wife sue. we spoke with them both about the dead's infamous 1972 benefit a few years ago. www.dead.net/deadcast/sun...
NYC TO CUOMO: DROP DEAD
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
NYC TO CUOMO: DROP DEAD
godspeed donna jean
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
godspeed donna jean
i greatly enjoyed thinking my way through @willsloanesq.bsky.social’s tender & amusing biography, ED WOOD: MADE IN HOLLYWOOD USA. read my blood-curdling (not festive) review over at MUBI’s Notebook: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
Nightmare of Infamy: Ed Wood’s Glandular Cinema
On a new biography of cult cinema’s patron saint.
mubi.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
i greatly enjoyed thinking my way through @willsloanesq.bsky.social’s tender & amusing biography, ED WOOD: MADE IN HOLLYWOOD USA. read my blood-curdling (not festive) review over at MUBI’s Notebook: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
back at it in the World's Only Music Magazine with a feature on the delightful new record from Andy Boay (a.k.a. Andy from Tonstartssbandht), and a festival experience at Dripping in which all of my atoms were split. buy before you try...
The Wire 499 is out now!
Featuring a 10-page Cabaret Voltaire special, plus DJ Haram's Invisible Jukebox, Earshot, Moreskinsound, SANAM, Michael Hurley, Chris Burn, 40 pages of reviews and more.
Copies are available to buy from our webshop now, & on newsstands from 7 Aug:
www.thewire.co.uk/shop/
Featuring a 10-page Cabaret Voltaire special, plus DJ Haram's Invisible Jukebox, Earshot, Moreskinsound, SANAM, Michael Hurley, Chris Burn, 40 pages of reviews and more.
Copies are available to buy from our webshop now, & on newsstands from 7 Aug:
www.thewire.co.uk/shop/
August 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
back at it in the World's Only Music Magazine with a feature on the delightful new record from Andy Boay (a.k.a. Andy from Tonstartssbandht), and a festival experience at Dripping in which all of my atoms were split. buy before you try...
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Pairing Laurel Canyon splendor with a surreal perspective, the Wand frontman’s latest solo album offers wry portraits of the strange characters and bleak situations that populate modern life
Cory Hanson: I Love People
Read Ryan Meehan’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Pairing Laurel Canyon splendor with a surreal perspective, the Wand frontman’s latest solo album offers wry portraits of the strange characters and bleak situations that populate modern life
cory hanson has made another jukebox of bouncy & beautiful tunes about our contemporary psychosis. i wrote about it for @pitchfork.com: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Cory Hanson: I Love People
Read Ryan Meehan’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
cory hanson has made another jukebox of bouncy & beautiful tunes about our contemporary psychosis. i wrote about it for @pitchfork.com: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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On a new Willem de Kooning exhibition, by @cryinmeehan.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
On a new Willem de Kooning exhibition, by @cryinmeehan.bsky.social
almost forgot to mention, zohran’s victory got me so hopped up i entered a fugue state and wrote my first substack about what challenges the future might hold open.substack.com/pub/eeeesspe...
Interesting Times
A rapid response to Zohran Mamdani's momentous victory, and how the Left might prepare for the fight ahead
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June 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
almost forgot to mention, zohran’s victory got me so hopped up i entered a fugue state and wrote my first substack about what challenges the future might hold open.substack.com/pub/eeeesspe...
i’ll take my expressionism: abstract, with a healthy cloud of suspicion thank you very much
June 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
i’ll take my expressionism: abstract, with a healthy cloud of suspicion thank you very much
andrew cuomo, leave new york city
June 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
andrew cuomo, leave new york city
what movie (now in theaters) deserves such scorn? you’re going to have to crack the latest @thewiremagazine.bsky.social to find out
or you can ask me personally. it’s really pretty obvious. but i’d prefer you buy the magazine & read the full review www.thewire.co.uk/issues/497
or you can ask me personally. it’s really pretty obvious. but i’d prefer you buy the magazine & read the full review www.thewire.co.uk/issues/497
June 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
what movie (now in theaters) deserves such scorn? you’re going to have to crack the latest @thewiremagazine.bsky.social to find out
or you can ask me personally. it’s really pretty obvious. but i’d prefer you buy the magazine & read the full review www.thewire.co.uk/issues/497
or you can ask me personally. it’s really pretty obvious. but i’d prefer you buy the magazine & read the full review www.thewire.co.uk/issues/497
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🙏 Ryan Meehan @cryinmeehan.bsky.social for this - if you still don't know anything about Michael Hurley, you can get started here, and it's not a long read. Dare I say: fans of @ivorcutler.bsky.social, or of our own @littlejohnnee.bsky.social, are in for a treat. Such a truly unique talent.
Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them
thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/ryan-meehan-remembers-michael-hurley
thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/ryan-meehan-remembers-michael-hurley
“An exercise in possibilities”: Ryan Meehan remembers Michael Hurley - The Wire
Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them
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April 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🙏 Ryan Meehan @cryinmeehan.bsky.social for this - if you still don't know anything about Michael Hurley, you can get started here, and it's not a long read. Dare I say: fans of @ivorcutler.bsky.social, or of our own @littlejohnnee.bsky.social, are in for a treat. Such a truly unique talent.
the latest from @stereolabgroop.bsky.social plays like a series of melancholy landscapes viewed from the window of a trans-europe express. i reviewed their enjoyable reunion record, Instant Holograms on Metal Film, for my friends at @aquariumdrunkard.com: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/06/03/s...
Stereolab : Instant Holograms on Metal Film : Aquarium Drunkard
When it comes to Stereolab, the fact that nobody else can make music quite like them should be justification enough for their return. Instant Holograms on Metal Film is a record for the faithful: stat...
aquariumdrunkard.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
the latest from @stereolabgroop.bsky.social plays like a series of melancholy landscapes viewed from the window of a trans-europe express. i reviewed their enjoyable reunion record, Instant Holograms on Metal Film, for my friends at @aquariumdrunkard.com: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/06/03/s...
those of you longing for a hot götterdämmerung summer should consider checking out john milius' ungainly surf epic BIG WEDNESDAY, screening at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social this very afternoon. wrote 'er up for my friends at @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/big...
Big Wednesday
By 1978, the New Hollywood revolution was cooling into its brushed aluminum entertainment phase. For some of the so-called “Movie Brats,” this transition would cement their fortune, and leave others i...
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June 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
those of you longing for a hot götterdämmerung summer should consider checking out john milius' ungainly surf epic BIG WEDNESDAY, screening at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social this very afternoon. wrote 'er up for my friends at @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/big...
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Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them
thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/ryan-meehan-remembers-michael-hurley
thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/ryan-meehan-remembers-michael-hurley
“An exercise in possibilities”: Ryan Meehan remembers Michael Hurley - The Wire
Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them
www.thewire.co.uk
April 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them
thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/ryan-meehan-remembers-michael-hurley
thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/ryan-meehan-remembers-michael-hurley
i wrote about nirvana, the soviet union, and the two meanings of "alternative" for @screenslate.bsky.social on the occasion of tonight's screening of dave markey's 1991: THE YEAR PUNK BROKE at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social williamsburg: www.screenslate.com/articles/199...
1991: The Year Punk Broke
In August 1991, in the throes of a tightening political and economic downward spiral, the KGB made one final attempt to save the Soviet Union. News of the infamous “dacha coup” reached Sonic Youth on ...
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November 25, 2024 at 4:54 PM
i wrote about nirvana, the soviet union, and the two meanings of "alternative" for @screenslate.bsky.social on the occasion of tonight's screening of dave markey's 1991: THE YEAR PUNK BROKE at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social williamsburg: www.screenslate.com/articles/199...
surely nothing will go wrong with this one
July 2, 2023 at 5:01 AM
surely nothing will go wrong with this one