Eric Weisbard
eweisbard.bsky.social
Eric Weisbard
@eweisbard.bsky.social
From Hunter High to WPRB, alt-weeklies, Spin Alternative Record Guide, Pop Conference, and professing. Top 40 Democracy. Songbooks. Next book up: Hound Dog
The last 36 seconds are a family affair for real
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Also, will these substack essays be findable years from now? Eric, maybe pitch a fuller version of this to Ari Kelman at Reviews in American History . . .
October 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
October 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Email, please
September 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Thanks! Streaming it now, will spread the word.
August 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The 1970s genre, cocaine? Yes, interesting and boring.
August 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I mean, Martha Wainwright, "B.M.F.A." and Wire, "Mannequin" are gold standard (and why the Feelies left their version of the latter off the new one is beyond me).
June 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Sometimes, he made me feel a bit feeble, but that was okay, too, I just valued the time I got to spend with him. And when I followed him in the Duke Single Series he started, he tagged his comments on the working file Jane Dark. I will miss him so much.
April 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
A spark that made New York editors want to fan his flame, Kim Stanley Robinson pigeonhole him into Ministry for the Future. An email would become a 100 Gecs party. As you'd expect from Mr. Critical Karaoke, he had thoughts about everything: could go on about freaking Khris Middleton.
April 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
That will be explained, in so many ways, in the days to come. Poet, pop critic, Marxist, blowhard cracking himself up so you forgave.
April 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM