i'm trying to remember a line from an essay where the writer describes being a kid and lamenting that his friends who started bands took guitar-bass-drums as a given, that they didn't star glockenspiel-trumpet-cowbell bands, etc. thought it might be Lethem or Klosterman but can't find it. any ideas?
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
i'm trying to remember a line from an essay where the writer describes being a kid and lamenting that his friends who started bands took guitar-bass-drums as a given, that they didn't star glockenspiel-trumpet-cowbell bands, etc. thought it might be Lethem or Klosterman but can't find it. any ideas?
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Very helpful piece by @cushac.bsky.social unpacking the problem of AI Slop
A list of recent targets includes Uncle Tupelo, Sophie, Blaze Foley, and Wild Pink. What is going on here?
Why Is It So Easy to Flood Streaming With AI Slop?
And what the hell is Operation Clown Dump?
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October 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Very helpful piece by @cushac.bsky.social unpacking the problem of AI Slop
wrote about slop www.hearingthings.co/why-is-it-so...
Why Is It So Easy to Flood Streaming With AI Slop?
And what the hell is Operation Clown Dump?
www.hearingthings.co
October 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
wrote about slop www.hearingthings.co/why-is-it-so...
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Asher White is so good at interviews!
www.hearingthings.co/asher-whites...
www.hearingthings.co/asher-whites...
September 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Asher White is so good at interviews!
www.hearingthings.co/asher-whites...
www.hearingthings.co/asher-whites...
I had such a great time talking to the young GOAT Asher White about her brilliant new album and her days as a tweenage noise musician www.hearingthings.co/asher-whites...
Asher White's Short, Strange Trip
The young experimental pop auteur talks about her life in music so far, from her days as a tweenage noise musician, to the bad acid experience that pulled her toward songwriting, to her thrilling new ...
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September 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I had such a great time talking to the young GOAT Asher White about her brilliant new album and her days as a tweenage noise musician www.hearingthings.co/asher-whites...
🚨I interviewed Joshua Chuquimia Crampton of Los Thuthanaka about Boris, Milton Nascimento, Weather Report, and the Smashing Pumpkins🚨 www.hearingthings.co/joshua-chuqu...
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton of Los Thuthanaka Breaks Down 6 Perfectly Produced Records
From Bolivian charangueada to Japanese heavy metal, these are the productions that inspire the visionary guitarist.
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August 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🚨I interviewed Joshua Chuquimia Crampton of Los Thuthanaka about Boris, Milton Nascimento, Weather Report, and the Smashing Pumpkins🚨 www.hearingthings.co/joshua-chuqu...
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Zohran Mamdani can lower housing costs by getting everyone who jets between New York and the South of France to leave the city for good
June 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Zohran Mamdani can lower housing costs by getting everyone who jets between New York and the South of France to leave the city for good
there's been a scandal brewing on nerdy guitar-centric corners of YouTube for the last couple of months about a guy who got caught copying other people's guitar solos and presenting them as his own. i wrote about that bizarre saga here www.hearingthings.co/the-great-in...
The Great Instagram Jazz Guitar Plagiarism Scandal
What Giacomo Turra shows us about the strange intersection of jazz and social media
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June 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
there's been a scandal brewing on nerdy guitar-centric corners of YouTube for the last couple of months about a guy who got caught copying other people's guitar solos and presenting them as his own. i wrote about that bizarre saga here www.hearingthings.co/the-great-in...
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including my favorite smartphone/internet-free (really!) nyc dead freak on drums. saw him DJ 2 cassette tapes of "the other one" simultaneously for a true "anthem of the sun" effect at ye olde williamsburg dead night.
I wrote an essay about life on the road in Prison (the band) and would be delighted if you read it www.hearingthings.co/prison-tour-...
Three Days in Prison
On the road with one of America’s freakiest rock’n’roll bands.
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June 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
including my favorite smartphone/internet-free (really!) nyc dead freak on drums. saw him DJ 2 cassette tapes of "the other one" simultaneously for a true "anthem of the sun" effect at ye olde williamsburg dead night.
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Ham trucks in France: Are they real? defector.com/dave-mckenna...
Dave McKenna Insists They Have Ham Trucks In France | Defector
The topic in Defector’s internal chat on Friday was a ban, in the nation of France, on smoking in most outdoor spaces. How can the French—the French!—ban smoking? David Roth observed that “this feels…
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June 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Ham trucks in France: Are they real? defector.com/dave-mckenna...
I wrote an essay about life on the road in Prison (the band) and would be delighted if you read it www.hearingthings.co/prison-tour-...
Three Days in Prison
On the road with one of America’s freakiest rock’n’roll bands.
www.hearingthings.co
June 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I wrote an essay about life on the road in Prison (the band) and would be delighted if you read it www.hearingthings.co/prison-tour-...
Hearing Things is now 100% worker owned. it's a big, exciting step, and it means we need the support of our readers more than ever. www.hearingthings.co/hearing-thin...
Hearing Things Is Now 100% Worker-Owned
A word from your fearless founders
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May 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Hearing Things is now 100% worker owned. it's a big, exciting step, and it means we need the support of our readers more than ever. www.hearingthings.co/hearing-thin...
very grateful to be on the road playing rock n roll with my friends Paul Major, Doug Shaw, and Matt Lily, blasting the Stooges and Black Sabbath on late nite drives, passing the spliff around, getting stories from Paul about seeing Television in 77 and buying Led Zeppelin I at Kmart when it came out
May 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
very grateful to be on the road playing rock n roll with my friends Paul Major, Doug Shaw, and Matt Lily, blasting the Stooges and Black Sabbath on late nite drives, passing the spliff around, getting stories from Paul about seeing Television in 77 and buying Led Zeppelin I at Kmart when it came out
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"… perhaps it’s because new [artists] are thrust immediately into the homogenizing machines of the streaming platforms, taught to think of themselves not as oppositional outsiders but as aspirants on the same playing field as global celebrities."
Tune In, Drop Out →
Tune In, Drop Out →
Tune In, Drop Out
The independent musicians and labels who are saying no to streaming.
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April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"… perhaps it’s because new [artists] are thrust immediately into the homogenizing machines of the streaming platforms, taught to think of themselves not as oppositional outsiders but as aspirants on the same playing field as global celebrities."
Tune In, Drop Out →
Tune In, Drop Out →
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Really good piece here by @cushac.bsky.social on musicians and labels who are turning their backs on the streaming behemoths
www.hearingthings.co/musicians-no...
www.hearingthings.co/musicians-no...
Tune In, Drop Out
The independent musicians and labels who are saying no to streaming.
www.hearingthings.co
April 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Really good piece here by @cushac.bsky.social on musicians and labels who are turning their backs on the streaming behemoths
www.hearingthings.co/musicians-no...
www.hearingthings.co/musicians-no...
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This is maybe the sweetest thing I ever read
the most personal essay I’ve ever written? www.hearingthings.co/i-learned-to...
I Learned to Listen From My Dad
He taught me a crucial survival skill when he passed down his rock’n’roll fandom.
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April 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is maybe the sweetest thing I ever read
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you must read @cushac.bsky.social's opus on how some independent musicians and labels are quitting streaming and making their own path for a variety of reasons, not least of which are economic. feels like this is just the start of a way bigger movement www.hearingthings.co/musicians-no...
Tune In, Drop Out
The independent musicians and labels who are saying no to streaming.
www.hearingthings.co
April 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
you must read @cushac.bsky.social's opus on how some independent musicians and labels are quitting streaming and making their own path for a variety of reasons, not least of which are economic. feels like this is just the start of a way bigger movement www.hearingthings.co/musicians-no...
Especially since the publication of 'Mood Machine,' there's a growing sense among underground musicians that we don't have to simply accept our own exploitation by streaming.
I wrote about the artists who are dropping out and imagining a future beyond it www.hearingthings.co/musicians-no...
I wrote about the artists who are dropping out and imagining a future beyond it www.hearingthings.co/musicians-no...
Tune In, Drop Out
The independent musicians and labels who are saying no to streaming.
www.hearingthings.co
April 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Especially since the publication of 'Mood Machine,' there's a growing sense among underground musicians that we don't have to simply accept our own exploitation by streaming.
I wrote about the artists who are dropping out and imagining a future beyond it www.hearingthings.co/musicians-no...
I wrote about the artists who are dropping out and imagining a future beyond it www.hearingthings.co/musicians-no...
filling in on bass with the mighty PRISON for a few shows on the road next month, catch me in Indianapolis, Chicago, and Pittsburgh 🤘
April 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
filling in on bass with the mighty PRISON for a few shows on the road next month, catch me in Indianapolis, Chicago, and Pittsburgh 🤘
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Beautiful essay by @jillmapes.bsky.social for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social.
Who taught you how to listen to music?
Who taught you how to listen to music?
I Learned to Listen From My Dad
He taught me a crucial survival skill when he passed down his rock’n’roll fandom.
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April 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Beautiful essay by @jillmapes.bsky.social for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social.
Who taught you how to listen to music?
Who taught you how to listen to music?
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wrote about my quest to escape the algorithms and get back to finding new music via human recs only, with some excellent advice from @cushac.bsky.social of @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, who's also had enough of the streaming economy nygroove.nyc/enough-is-en...
Enough is enough: How to find new music without an algorithm
It's time we stopped ceding the discovery process to the bots
nygroove.nyc
April 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
wrote about my quest to escape the algorithms and get back to finding new music via human recs only, with some excellent advice from @cushac.bsky.social of @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, who's also had enough of the streaming economy nygroove.nyc/enough-is-en...
I would love to talk to one or two more musicians who have recently pulled their music off streaming platforms for a story I’m writing. if that’s you, drop me a line at andy@hearingthings.co
April 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I would love to talk to one or two more musicians who have recently pulled their music off streaming platforms for a story I’m writing. if that’s you, drop me a line at andy@hearingthings.co