Sam Hockley-Smith
@samhockleysmith.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Words in most places but also not some of them.
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Ben Ratliff's new book RUN THE SONG is “a mixtape, a recommendation engine, and a discussion of how music can mutate over time.” 💥
Lace up your running shoes, read @samhockleysmith.bsky.social’s review, & grab the book statvia @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🏃 southwestreview.com/a-rare-breed...
Lace up your running shoes, read @samhockleysmith.bsky.social’s review, & grab the book statvia @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🏃 southwestreview.com/a-rare-breed...
A Rare Breed of Listener | Ben Ratliff's Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening
By Sam Hockley-Smith
southwestreview.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Ben Ratliff's new book RUN THE SONG is “a mixtape, a recommendation engine, and a discussion of how music can mutate over time.” 💥
Lace up your running shoes, read @samhockleysmith.bsky.social’s review, & grab the book statvia @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🏃 southwestreview.com/a-rare-breed...
Lace up your running shoes, read @samhockleysmith.bsky.social’s review, & grab the book statvia @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🏃 southwestreview.com/a-rare-breed...
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big nts loyalist but i always have to remind myself to check out dublab . . . enjoying esp @samhockleysmith.bsky.social show these last few months, also always t-kay's "archive of feelings" www.dublab.com/archive/sam-...
dublab
www.dublab.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
big nts loyalist but i always have to remind myself to check out dublab . . . enjoying esp @samhockleysmith.bsky.social show these last few months, also always t-kay's "archive of feelings" www.dublab.com/archive/sam-...
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🎶 Postgame your holiday w/ some choice music ruminations from the homie @samhockleysmith.bsky.social
Read DISPATCHES FROM A DIM CAVE: ON MUSIC AT THE MARGINS from our music issue 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...
Read DISPATCHES FROM A DIM CAVE: ON MUSIC AT THE MARGINS from our music issue 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...
Dispatches from a Dim Cave: On Music at the Margins | Sam Hockley-Smith
From the Magazine
southwestreview.com
December 27, 2024 at 2:38 PM
🎶 Postgame your holiday w/ some choice music ruminations from the homie @samhockleysmith.bsky.social
Read DISPATCHES FROM A DIM CAVE: ON MUSIC AT THE MARGINS from our music issue 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...
Read DISPATCHES FROM A DIM CAVE: ON MUSIC AT THE MARGINS from our music issue 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...
That's right, it's your old pal me, but on dublab.com from 4-6pm PST with my year end special, where I don't acknowledge the human concept of a "year" at all and instead just play lots of music that more or less sounds good together, regardless of when it came out. Listen in!
dublab
dublab.com
December 19, 2024 at 12:19 AM
That's right, it's your old pal me, but on dublab.com from 4-6pm PST with my year end special, where I don't acknowledge the human concept of a "year" at all and instead just play lots of music that more or less sounds good together, regardless of when it came out. Listen in!
Binge watching all 15,000 episodes of Days of our Lives
December 11, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Binge watching all 15,000 episodes of Days of our Lives
Home Alone 2 is about the perils of technology
December 7, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Home Alone 2 is about the perils of technology
An interesting thing about nu metal and other popular heavy music at the turn of the century is how much of it was very vocally about being disgusted with the music industry they were participating in
December 3, 2024 at 12:41 AM
An interesting thing about nu metal and other popular heavy music at the turn of the century is how much of it was very vocally about being disgusted with the music industry they were participating in
Was just on Twitter and it was a bunch of Trumpy gen x and boomer guys talking about New York at Christmas time
November 23, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Was just on Twitter and it was a bunch of Trumpy gen x and boomer guys talking about New York at Christmas time
Every third Wednesday of the month, you can catch me playing music on @dublab.bsky.social from 4-6pm pacific, which means...I'm on right now as we speak. Tune in at dublab.com if you want to feel calm or want to approximate the illusion of calm while staring off into the middle distance
dublab
dublab.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Every third Wednesday of the month, you can catch me playing music on @dublab.bsky.social from 4-6pm pacific, which means...I'm on right now as we speak. Tune in at dublab.com if you want to feel calm or want to approximate the illusion of calm while staring off into the middle distance
Thinking about becoming one of those comedians where I just get on stage and let out a huge long sigh and everyone laughs for like 3 minutes straight before I even say one word
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Thinking about becoming one of those comedians where I just get on stage and let out a huge long sigh and everyone laughs for like 3 minutes straight before I even say one word
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TRAVELS OVER FEELING, “a hybrid oral history coffee-table book” about Arthur Russell by Richard King is out now via Anthology 🎻
We can't wait to snag this beauty, but before we do, @samhockleysmith.bsky.social gives us the full rundown. Read his review below...👇 southwestreview.com/the-kinetic-...
We can't wait to snag this beauty, but before we do, @samhockleysmith.bsky.social gives us the full rundown. Read his review below...👇 southwestreview.com/the-kinetic-...
The Kinetic Spell of Arthur Russell | Richard King’s Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life
By Sam Hockley-Smith
southwestreview.com
July 30, 2024 at 3:40 PM
TRAVELS OVER FEELING, “a hybrid oral history coffee-table book” about Arthur Russell by Richard King is out now via Anthology 🎻
We can't wait to snag this beauty, but before we do, @samhockleysmith.bsky.social gives us the full rundown. Read his review below...👇 southwestreview.com/the-kinetic-...
We can't wait to snag this beauty, but before we do, @samhockleysmith.bsky.social gives us the full rundown. Read his review below...👇 southwestreview.com/the-kinetic-...
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Attn: you are now entering lo-fi country w/ yer host @samhockleysmith.bsky.social 🔊
Go deep into the world of analog w/ his review of HIGH BIAS by @marcissist.bsky.social (via @uncpress.bsky.social ) & THE GREAT PSYCHIC OUTDOORS by Enrico Monacelli 💥 southwestreview.com/perfectly-im...
Go deep into the world of analog w/ his review of HIGH BIAS by @marcissist.bsky.social (via @uncpress.bsky.social ) & THE GREAT PSYCHIC OUTDOORS by Enrico Monacelli 💥 southwestreview.com/perfectly-im...
Perfectly Imperfect | Two Books for Analog Aficionados
By Sam Hockley-Smith
southwestreview.com
April 16, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Attn: you are now entering lo-fi country w/ yer host @samhockleysmith.bsky.social 🔊
Go deep into the world of analog w/ his review of HIGH BIAS by @marcissist.bsky.social (via @uncpress.bsky.social ) & THE GREAT PSYCHIC OUTDOORS by Enrico Monacelli 💥 southwestreview.com/perfectly-im...
Go deep into the world of analog w/ his review of HIGH BIAS by @marcissist.bsky.social (via @uncpress.bsky.social ) & THE GREAT PSYCHIC OUTDOORS by Enrico Monacelli 💥 southwestreview.com/perfectly-im...
Thinking about becoming a Quora guy
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Thinking about becoming a Quora guy
I wrote about some good new music from Olympia, Washington. I place I have a very complicated relationship to: grosslife.substack.com/p/three-six-oh
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I wrote about some good new music from Olympia, Washington. I place I have a very complicated relationship to: grosslife.substack.com/p/three-six-oh
Doing anything on Twitter except making jokes is no longer fun, so I'm going to promote this here instead. I wrote a newsletter for the first time in over a year! I would like to write it more regularly from now on! Hold me accountable? grosslife.substack.com/p/am-i-doing...
Am I Doing The Right Thing?
Trying to write through it
grosslife.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Doing anything on Twitter except making jokes is no longer fun, so I'm going to promote this here instead. I wrote a newsletter for the first time in over a year! I would like to write it more regularly from now on! Hold me accountable? grosslife.substack.com/p/am-i-doing...
I love how this site is like “your post has been published” when you write something like “ah yes your magnificent words have blessed cyberspace”
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I love how this site is like “your post has been published” when you write something like “ah yes your magnificent words have blessed cyberspace”
Whoa this is so sick
Hello everyone, so excited to finally share that GKIDS has this gorgeous Masaaki Yuasa box set coming out 12/19 and your friend Emily wrote the companion essay 😇😈 you can preorder now!! store.gkids.com/products/mas...
Masaaki Yuasa: Five Films Collector's Edition
Widely regarded as one of the most imaginative and influential filmmakers working in animation, Masaaki Yuasa’s energetic style has been compared to Tex Avery and Max Fleischer. He is one of contemp...
store.gkids.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Whoa this is so sick
When will they remake Batteries Not Included
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
When will they remake Batteries Not Included
So much of parenting is just opening various toys with the smallest Phillips-Head screwdriver you can find
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
So much of parenting is just opening various toys with the smallest Phillips-Head screwdriver you can find
Has anyone complained to an airline on here yet
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Has anyone complained to an airline on here yet