Alex Johnson
@alex-johnson.bsky.social
Dusted Magazine, the icecreamist, Unbearably Sad Records, Ruins Vibes
@joelcusumano.bsky.social Waxworld is QUITE good.
Waxworld, by Joel Cusumano
14 track album
dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
@joelcusumano.bsky.social Waxworld is QUITE good.
Anybody hear about this band Geese? They had an album a couple years ago.
3D Country, by Geese
11 track album
geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Anybody hear about this band Geese? They had an album a couple years ago.
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Ecstatic black metal? Free jazz skronk? C86-style girl-dominated pop? Farm emo? Sure, why not? A new Dust. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7983112...
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Ecstatic black metal? Free jazz skronk? C86-style girl-dominated pop? Farm emo? Sure, why not? A new Dust. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7983112...
Wrote up Comet Gain, The Cords, and Jinzo here. And good stuff through as usual!
Dust Volume 11, Number 10
The Cords
Another month, another Dust. Not sure there’s anything especially autumnal about it, no pumpkin spice, no skeleton displays, no scent of rotting apples in the lanes. It’s just more music,....
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October 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Wrote up Comet Gain, The Cords, and Jinzo here. And good stuff through as usual!
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“Crooked Songs is stark but warm, a responsive collaboration between Jens Kuross and his electric piano,” writes Alex Johnson. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7963180... @alexjohnson262.bsky.social @woodsist.bsky.social
Jens Kuross — Crooked Songs (Woodsist)
Jens Kuross - Beggar's Nation
Crooked Songs is stark but warm, a responsive collaboration between Jens Kuross and his electric piano. Kuross has accompanied Yohei Shikano and Hayden Pedigo, among...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“Crooked Songs is stark but warm, a responsive collaboration between Jens Kuross and his electric piano,” writes Alex Johnson. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7963180... @alexjohnson262.bsky.social @woodsist.bsky.social
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“Relentless dance rock, mixing the thundering beats and assertive electronics of Pet Shop Boys or the Eurythmics with the breakneck, organic rush of Florence + The Machine and the complex freedom of Wye Oak,” writes Alex Johnson. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7909729... @alexjohnson262.bsky.social
Lia Braswell — Rising (self released)
Photo by Stephen Brownlee
Lia Braswell - But I'm Ready
Lia Braswell’s Rising is forceful and expressive. Each song sounds an individual statement without there being any real sonic outliers (or weak.....
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August 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“Relentless dance rock, mixing the thundering beats and assertive electronics of Pet Shop Boys or the Eurythmics with the breakneck, organic rush of Florence + The Machine and the complex freedom of Wye Oak,” writes Alex Johnson. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7909729... @alexjohnson262.bsky.social
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Everybody’s favorite part of the mid-year is the writers’ lists. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7887985...
The 2025 Dusted Mid-Year Switch: Part 3
Horsegirl
In part three of our mid-year wrap-up, Dusted writers list their favorite albums from the year’s first half. Check out parts one and two if you missed them.
Christian Carey
Raven Chacon —....
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July 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Everybody’s favorite part of the mid-year is the writers’ lists. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7887985...
I got to write about Anika and Raven Chacon in here, and got to read @cbcarey.bsky.social and @hazycomet.bsky.social on my picks Hectorine and Artificial Go, respectively. All on day one!
“For the twelfth year in a row, Dusted writers have exchanged favorite records from the year’s first half, trusting friends and colleagues with the albums they love.” The Mid-year begins. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7886172...
The Dusted Mid-Year Switch: Part 1
Circuit des Yeux
For the twelfth year in a row, Dusted writers have exchanged favorite records from the year’s first half, trusting friends and colleagues with the albums they love and embarking on...
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July 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I got to write about Anika and Raven Chacon in here, and got to read @cbcarey.bsky.social and @hazycomet.bsky.social on my picks Hectorine and Artificial Go, respectively. All on day one!
Wrote about the grand and mystical (and very good!) new Hectorine record, Arrow Of Love, for Dusted (@jenpkelly.bsky.social).
Hectorine — Arrow of Love (Take a Turn)
Photo by Emily Dulla
Hectorine - Is Love an Illusion
“These Hills,” the third song on Arrow Of Love, is a lament and a hymn. Sarah Gagnon’s articulate vocal has a mourning glow, lending a tight,...
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June 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Wrote about the grand and mystical (and very good!) new Hectorine record, Arrow Of Love, for Dusted (@jenpkelly.bsky.social).
Delightful find in the @kfai.org music library today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5kv...
Beat Happening/Screaming Trees (Full E.P.)
YouTube video by Dan Pollock & The Pretensions Music
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June 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Delightful find in the @kfai.org music library today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5kv...
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More sad news. Josh Moss writes a personal appreciation of the Beach Boys legend. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7860892... @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
More sad news. Josh Moss writes a personal appreciation of the Beach Boys legend. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7860892... @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com
Just like me, you should read this great show slice of life (www.yellowgreenred.com?p=15272) by @mattkorvette.bsky.social, and then, JUST LIKE ME, check out, Eraser, the headliners in question: siltbreeze.bandcamp.com/album/eraser...
Eraser, Famous Mammals, The Shield in Philadelphia, PA on April 1st 2025 -
A small crowd gathered outside Jerry's On Front, par for the course as this rowhouse-sized venue doesn't offer much space for luxurious indoor banter. What was once in the heart of East Kensington's n...
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June 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Just like me, you should read this great show slice of life (www.yellowgreenred.com?p=15272) by @mattkorvette.bsky.social, and then, JUST LIKE ME, check out, Eraser, the headliners in question: siltbreeze.bandcamp.com/album/eraser...
Latest review for Dusted (@jenpkelly.bsky.social). One of my favorites of 2025 so far. Super fun, punk weirdos ascendent!
“The band finds its stride with topsy turvy bass and listing cymbal crashes, slashed into with gargled strums and slashes of guitar,” writes Alex Johnson. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7858994... @alexjohnson262.bsky.social
Artificial Go — Musical Chairs (Feel It)
Artificial Go - Lasso
Dusted found Artificial Go’s debut, Hopscotch Fever, “a lot of fun [and over] far too quickly.” On Musical Chairs, this year’s looser, more celebratory follow-up, the Cincinnati....
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June 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Latest review for Dusted (@jenpkelly.bsky.social). One of my favorites of 2025 so far. Super fun, punk weirdos ascendent!
Totally mesmerizing record
Gekleed In Donker, Ze Vroegen Niks, by Meetsysteem
12 track album
nousklaer.bandcamp.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Totally mesmerizing record
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My big beautiful mind is whirring today.
May 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
My big beautiful mind is whirring today.
Quite positive
Roots Rocking Zimbabwe - The Modern Sound of Harare' Townships 1975-1980 (Analog Africa No.41), by Analog Africa
25 track album
analogafrica.bandcamp.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Quite positive
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A new Dust to kick off the weekend. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7786516...
Dust Volume 11, Number 3
Television Personalities
This month’s batch of short reviews spans free jazz and video-game inspired dungeon synths, field recordings, jangle pop, blackened noise, classical piano music and some long....
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March 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A new Dust to kick off the weekend. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7786516...
Wrote about the late-breaking and apparently final Amen Dunes record for Dusted:
Amen Dunes — Death Jokes II (Sub Pop)
Amen Dunes - Rugby Child (300 Miles Per Hour)
Death Jokes II is apparently the final Amen Dunes release. It detangles the original Death Jokes’ many strands and closes out the project on a lucid,...
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January 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Wrote about the late-breaking and apparently final Amen Dunes record for Dusted:
Year-end for Dusted went up yesterday (also read everyone else's!)
No Escape Like Immersion: Alex Johnson’s 2024 Year in Review
The Minneapolis Uranium Club Water Damage - Reel E I’m sure there are people who glide through November, then December, then New Year's day without getting snagged by even a single impulse to...
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January 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Year-end for Dusted went up yesterday (also read everyone else's!)
Did the Shoot Out The Lights into the Flyin’ The Flannel —happy new year!
fIREHOSE - Down with the Bass
YouTube video by FirehouseVEVO
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January 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Did the Shoot Out The Lights into the Flyin’ The Flannel —happy new year!
One of those best-songs-ever
Twerps - Back to You (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Merge Records on YouTube
youtu.be
December 31, 2024 at 1:14 AM
One of those best-songs-ever
Christmas in Palm Springs, OST. Thanks @heathendisco.bsky.social for the 2024 hard drive review fest
That Best Forgotten Work, by Roy Montgomery
9 track album
grapefruit1.bandcamp.com
December 25, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Christmas in Palm Springs, OST. Thanks @heathendisco.bsky.social for the 2024 hard drive review fest