A Sweater Poorly Knit
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Celebrating the music that moves me. Hurling thoughts into the void.
Weird Al has the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now.
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Weird Al has the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now.
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It’s been an absolutely phenomenal month for guitar centric albums. Pile, Deftones, Pool Kids, The World is a Beautiful Place, La Dispute, Big Thief and Fleshwater have all put out good to great albums. It’s choice paralysis every time I want to put something on.
September 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It’s been an absolutely phenomenal month for guitar centric albums. Pile, Deftones, Pool Kids, The World is a Beautiful Place, La Dispute, Big Thief and Fleshwater have all put out good to great albums. It’s choice paralysis every time I want to put something on.
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every day there are more reasons to leave spotify – ethical, political, sonic – and fewer reasons to stay. not gonna hound anyone about it, but if playlists are the thing you can't imagine life without, then it's worth considering a change
Apple Music Now Lets You Import Playlists From Spotify and Other Streaming Services
Amid an artist exodus from Spotify, Apple Music is rolling out a sought-after feature in the United States, United Kingdom, and more countries
pitchfork.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
every day there are more reasons to leave spotify – ethical, political, sonic – and fewer reasons to stay. not gonna hound anyone about it, but if playlists are the thing you can't imagine life without, then it's worth considering a change
Arcarsenal
Beware! Beware!
Beware! Beware!
if you were a closer in major league baseball what would your entrance music be
August 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Arcarsenal
Beware! Beware!
Beware! Beware!
I think this is a really tough and honest blog about the frustration of the business of being a creative and the toll it can take on you. I think this is frequently just as true for musicians, or visual artists, or anyone who makes their living putting a piece of themselves out into the world.
So...I wrote a release day blog post (finally) and uh, it might not be what you were expecting but I'm kind of Going Through It over here right now, so here goes nothing. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/getting...
Getting Naked on Main: It Was Her House First — The Haunt*
I’m not gonna lie: I’ve been putting this off. It’s not like I didn’t know I had a book coming out today, and it’s not that I had better things to do with my time than tell you, the reading public, ab...
www.cheriepriest.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I think this is a really tough and honest blog about the frustration of the business of being a creative and the toll it can take on you. I think this is frequently just as true for musicians, or visual artists, or anyone who makes their living putting a piece of themselves out into the world.
This is excellent
mewithoutYou deserve recognition as one of the 21st century's greatest rock bands, and the underrated 'Pale Horses' — released 10 years ago today — is a big reason why
mewithoutYou Deserve Their Flowers As One Of The 21st Century's Greatest Rock Bands
And the underrated 'Pale Horses,' released 10 years ago today, is a big reason why.
www.stereogum.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is excellent
Hard to overstate how big an impact this album had on me. It was the first album I discovered that wasn’t via the radio or MTV and lead to a complete shift in how I sought out music. And it holds up better than almost anything else I can think of from 00.
happy 25th birthday to this surreal, perfect album music.apple.com/us/album/the...
The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse on Apple Music
Album · 2000 · 15 Songs
music.apple.com
June 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hard to overstate how big an impact this album had on me. It was the first album I discovered that wasn’t via the radio or MTV and lead to a complete shift in how I sought out music. And it holds up better than almost anything else I can think of from 00.
Good recommendation. I’ve always liked La Dispute, but their past albums have never hit me as hard as their 2025 output has. Consistently urgent, and some phenomenal vocal deliveries on the four songs I’ve heard this year.
Fuck man La Dispute is so incredibly deep into their bag on this new song
music.apple.com/us/album/env...
music.apple.com/us/album/env...
Environmental Catastrophe Film by La Dispute on Apple Music
music.apple.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Good recommendation. I’ve always liked La Dispute, but their past albums have never hit me as hard as their 2025 output has. Consistently urgent, and some phenomenal vocal deliveries on the four songs I’ve heard this year.
For bands that mix the heavy and elegiac, a popular evolution is to “make the pretty parts prettier and the heavy parts heavier”. It’s seldom a move I love, but it sure as hell works for Holy Fawn. Everything is just so textured and pleasurable to listen to.
“Shining quietly beneath the moon…”
“Shining quietly beneath the moon…”
May 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
For bands that mix the heavy and elegiac, a popular evolution is to “make the pretty parts prettier and the heavy parts heavier”. It’s seldom a move I love, but it sure as hell works for Holy Fawn. Everything is just so textured and pleasurable to listen to.
“Shining quietly beneath the moon…”
“Shining quietly beneath the moon…”
I’ve got my money on Hey What by Low.
here's a fun game if you're a music dork: what is the best album released by a music act at least 15 years after its debut album?
May 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I’ve got my money on Hey What by Low.
In honor of the Denver Nuggets
April 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In honor of the Denver Nuggets
Now my most anticipated album for 2025
our album hunting season will be released may 23. here’s a song off the record. it’s called migration patterns. home is where forever
April 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Now my most anticipated album for 2025
Checks out
New Craig Finn album produced by the frontman from The War on Drugs is, unsurprisingly, exactly my thing.
April 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Checks out
I love this album so much. And I really enjoy IHOTV becoming a reliable place to find intersting music criticism.
got a new featured essay up at IHTOV. robert dean gives us 1200 words on a favorite album: at the drive-in's the relationship of command. ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/at-th...
At the Drive-In: The Relationship of Command
" At the Drive-In released “The Relationship of Command” on September 12, 2000. I had just turned 19 the month before, standing at a crossroads of hearing this and The Refused’ “The Shape of Punk to C...
ihavethatonvinyl.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I love this album so much. And I really enjoy IHOTV becoming a reliable place to find intersting music criticism.
This is just a really special piece. A personal essay on an album that is intensely personal for so many of us. Read it if you have a chance.
ok, here it is. 1600 words on the national's "boxer" with a content warning of *it gets personal* and an afterword of *it's all good now*
it's about how boxer became a companion during both good times and bad, and personal anguish, and finding comfort
ihavethatonvinyl.com/liner-notes/...
it's about how boxer became a companion during both good times and bad, and personal anguish, and finding comfort
ihavethatonvinyl.com/liner-notes/...
The National's Boxer: Waiting For Winter to Leave
There’s something within this album that sparks my soul, making me realize that it’s not quite yet empty in there. It reminds me that I once had a full heart, once had someone who loved me, who was a ...
ihavethatonvinyl.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is just a really special piece. A personal essay on an album that is intensely personal for so many of us. Read it if you have a chance.
New Arms Length on its way? Pretty excited for this one
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
New Arms Length on its way? Pretty excited for this one
A topic near and dear to my heart. The recommendations I’ve see on how to most efficiently support artists you love:
1. If they’ve got a Patreon, donate.
2. Buy merch from a bands own website or bandcamp.
3. Buy presale tickets to their shows.
4. Buy Merch at their show.
1. If they’ve got a Patreon, donate.
2. Buy merch from a bands own website or bandcamp.
3. Buy presale tickets to their shows.
4. Buy Merch at their show.
A morally praiseworthy action you can take today is: find a band you like that you’ve never bought merch or physical media from. And spend between $10 and $30 on merch (if you are able).
January 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A topic near and dear to my heart. The recommendations I’ve see on how to most efficiently support artists you love:
1. If they’ve got a Patreon, donate.
2. Buy merch from a bands own website or bandcamp.
3. Buy presale tickets to their shows.
4. Buy Merch at their show.
1. If they’ve got a Patreon, donate.
2. Buy merch from a bands own website or bandcamp.
3. Buy presale tickets to their shows.
4. Buy Merch at their show.
A song for these times if ever there was one.
“Give me snapping of the brain.”
“Give me snapping of the brain.”
January 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
A song for these times if ever there was one.
“Give me snapping of the brain.”
“Give me snapping of the brain.”
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“Holiday” by Turnstile IS a Christmas song
December 11, 2024 at 2:29 PM
“Holiday” by Turnstile IS a Christmas song
The new A Place for Owls is front to back beautiful, moving autumnal emo. But more often than not it starts on track 3 for me. It’s not that the opening tracks aren’t good. It’s because the second track, ‘hourglass’ is a lament centered on miscarriage whose specific details completely breaks me.
December 10, 2024 at 7:31 PM
The new A Place for Owls is front to back beautiful, moving autumnal emo. But more often than not it starts on track 3 for me. It’s not that the opening tracks aren’t good. It’s because the second track, ‘hourglass’ is a lament centered on miscarriage whose specific details completely breaks me.
The best kind of dad rock.
“I recorded your heartbeat/it’s 133….”
“I recorded your heartbeat/it’s 133….”
December 9, 2024 at 5:17 PM
The best kind of dad rock.
“I recorded your heartbeat/it’s 133….”
“I recorded your heartbeat/it’s 133….”
December 3, 2024 at 9:46 PM
I’ve never really had a hot temper, instead when I do get angry I get calm and cold. For a decade and a half, this has been my run through a wall anthem. TVOTR seethes with a disquieting menace on DLZ, determined to make some very bad choices.
This is beginning to feel like the dog wants a bone…
This is beginning to feel like the dog wants a bone…
November 28, 2024 at 8:19 PM
I’ve never really had a hot temper, instead when I do get angry I get calm and cold. For a decade and a half, this has been my run through a wall anthem. TVOTR seethes with a disquieting menace on DLZ, determined to make some very bad choices.
This is beginning to feel like the dog wants a bone…
This is beginning to feel like the dog wants a bone…
One thing I’m interested in is how to best support the artists we love. My understanding is the best ways to do this are:
1. If they’ve got a Patreon, donate
2. Buy merch directly from a website they run.
3. Buy merch at one of their shows.
What else am I missing? #musicsky #music
1. If they’ve got a Patreon, donate
2. Buy merch directly from a website they run.
3. Buy merch at one of their shows.
What else am I missing? #musicsky #music
November 23, 2024 at 5:50 PM